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Description: | The Ostrich is a substantial inn of mainly early 16th century construction with jettied first floor and timber-framed and brick construction.
The building opens directly onto the public footpath and at the rear there is a cobbled courtyard where coaches and horses were kept. Colnbrook's peak of prosperity lay in the coaching days when this was an important stop on the main route between London and Bath. The original inn was called the 'Hospice' and this, over time, has been corrupted into 'Ostrich'. It is recorded that the foundations of the inn were laid in 1106.
The caption on the photograph records that the inn was also known as the Crane early on in its life. There is also reference to a landlord John Jarman who is notorious for having murdered some of his guests including Thomas Cole, a rich merchant. Apparently he was dispatched by a bedstead tipping him through a trapdoor and down into a vat of boiling liquid. It has been suggested that the Colnbrook was named because the body of a man called John Cole was discovered in a brook, though it does seem very unlikely. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Ostrich Inn ; Crane Inn Pubs and inns | Temporal: | start=1978-01-01; end=1979-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Reg Harrison | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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