Marlborough
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Wartime Marlborough
Evacuated with my sister and mother, one of our favourite walks was to Treacle Bolley where we collected rose hips which were then sent away to be made into a source of vitamin C and distributed to those who needed it. On a visit to Marlborough (from London) a few years ago, I was unable to find Treacle Bolley nor anyone who had ever heard of it. Is there anyone out there who knows this lovely spot? (April 2008)
Contributed by jill edison
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.
Contributed by jill edison
Marlborough mop
My name is Christine Mary Utrup, nee Mary Broadway. I worked at the childrens convalescent hospital as a nurse. I do have a photo of myself and 2 other nurses with a group of the little children from the Common, as we used to call it. I don't know how to put it on the internet. I cannot remember if it was 1952 or 1953. However I was married at St. Thomas More Catholic Church on George Lane in 1953. The Matron's name was Harrel. Such pleasant memories. I will always be remembered as Mary Broadway
Contributed by christine utrup
Great Grandfather
It is strange to see one of the two portraits that hung in my grandparents' hallway, for sale on the web. Issac was born in 1837 in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire. Taught himself to read and write while an agricultural labourer, and joined the Wilts Constabulary in 1874. During the winter of 1881/2 he was pensioned out of the police from injuries sustained in the line of duty. The family story is that he was set upon by poachers in Savernake Forest while he was the local constable at Froxfield and nearly lost the sight in his left eye as a result. He lost his first wife and mother of 3 children at pretty much the same time. He subsequently moved to ...read more here
Contributed by Peter Waylen
Extracts From Marlborough & Wiltshire books
The west end of the
High Street is bounded
by St Peter and St Paul’s
Church, dating from
the mid to late 15th
century. Its impressive
four-square tower stands
reinforced by octagonal
turrets capped with
18th-century pyramids.
Today the tower is not so
visible, because the trees
have grown larger.
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".
The Castle and Ball Hotel, an
old established commercial
hotel and posting house on the
north side of the High Street,
has a distinctive tile-hung front
with pierced barge-boards
decorating the three gable ends.
These have since been replaced
with plainer examples, although
the balls finishing the gables
are still there. On the ground
floor is a pentice, a common
feature of the High Street
frontages, which must have
kept many a market trader and
his customers dry. In the road
are the corn rails - these were
removed in 1929.
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".
This steep-roofed brick building with
rather a Gothic flavour, designed
by G E Street, replaced a block of
fives courts. It commemorates
the name of one of the College’s
headmasters, George Granville
Bradley (1858-70). He followed
Dr Cotton in increasing the size
of Marlborough from a modest
establishment, providing good
cut-price education to the son of
clergymen, to one of the great
public schools of the time.
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".
This view looks east.
The chapel was not
considered an architec-
tural success, and
its interior has been
described as ‘barn-like’.
The lack of a screen
between the main body
of the church and the
altar probably adds to
the effect.
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".
A shady spot suitable for
scholarly discussion or
common-room gossip,
this avenue of lime trees,
their bases encircled
by benches, replaces a
circular drive and lawn
in front of C House.
The building on the right
of the picture is the
Old Dining Hall, now gone.
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".