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Author_Julian Hunt
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local history
malt
maltsters
Marlow
Phillimore
suspension bridge
timber
wethered's brewery
wheat
Product details
- ISBN 9780850339420
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 185 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 1994
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Marlow is an ancient Thames crossing point, a position symbolised by its elegant suspension bridge. Timber, wheat and malt were the main cargoes sent down river to London in the days when Marlow merchants built up contacts with trading houses in the capital, apprenticed their sons to London tradesmen, and forged commercial links. Though never a busy market town, it had a market day and two annual fairs. Due to wheat and barley growing, the local maltsters prospered and Wethered’s brewery become the largest employer in the town.
JULIAN HUNT was born in Worcestershire in 1949 and joined the staff of Birmingham Reference Library in 1968. He was first published in 1973 and later moved to Buckinghamshire County Library in 1988. He has written numerous histories of Buckinghamshire market towns as well as other areas of England.
