The Free Press is going back in time with old photos and postcards of how Marlow used to be. In the second of this new series, Marlovian Michael Eagleton examines what postcards of the High Street reveal about Marlow's past.
THIS very clear view of the High Street in 1909 is quite well known, but some of you may not have seen it.
The shop in the left foreground is still a jewellers (now F Hinds), whilst next door the busy hardware shop existed up to a dozen or so years ago, run by the Chalk family.
The listed front is still retained by the present day travel shop.
What is not often appreciated is that in 1909, The Crown Hotel, at the top of the High Street, occupied the site of our current Boots.
The present Crown with the clock and cupola that recently reopened as The Market Cafe Bar, used to be the town hall, fire station and prison.
And there were less High Street parking problems back then.
On the back of this postcard is a 1912 half-penny stamp, showing King George V, which is believed to be worth in the region of £80 to £130. It was sent to an address in Tiverton, Devon, from Marlow.
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