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Description: | The original Windmill Inn (often referred to as 'Botham's' after its proprietors) was a well known coaching inn which hosted such notable people as the Dukes of Wellington and Devonshire, Pitt the younger, the Prince Regent, the Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The inn had extensive gardens on the south side of the road, including renowned watercress beds. The building itself was made of dark red brick, and had a verandah on the ground floor. Covering the front of the building was one of the finest wisterias in England. After a fire in 1882, Wethered's Brewery of Marlow built the Windmill Hotel on the same site, which despite its name was a pub rather than an inn. The distinctive terracotta model windmill which sat on top of one of the hotel's gables is just visible in this image. The Windmill was demolished in 2000 and The Windmill Care Home now stands on the site.
This card is postmarked 11 September 1905. | 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: | Pubs & inns Windmill Hotel ; Bothams | Temporal: | start=1890-01-01; end=1905-09-11; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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