Wartime Marlborough
Sent out of London during the Blitz with my mother, grandmother and sister, a visit to the Polly Tea Rooms was for special occasions only. We loved it when the parents of the boys from Marlborough School came to visit and brought their sons to Polly's for tea (even though we were only 5 or 6!). Happily, the tea rooms are still there, whilst the Merlin on the other side and at the other end of the High Street has disappeared.
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RE: RE: Wartime Marlborough
The upper two storeys in the left of the picture are no longer there, they were destroyed in a fire a few years after the photo was taken. The West family who owned the Polly Tea Rooms from the start sold it a few years back and since then it has lost a bit of the charm and no longer does Mr Men Tea Cakes!!!
Comment from Tom Graham on Thursday, 21st August 2008.