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The Old Court - then and now
The Old Court Hotel - then and now It’s with great sadness that I feel it necessary to print the following two pictures. The Old court featured on the front page of your Newsletter last April, when I finally accepted that it was to be demolished to make way for a block of service apartments. The Old Court was originally one of the 5 great houses build in South Taplow and it was hoped that a sympathetic builder (and District Council) would do the same marvellous conversion job that a builder did with Lansdowne House. This was not to be. The Old Court was demolished within a week of our Newsletter appearing and the timing suggested that the owner was very aware that the District had just acquired the power to take over unused buildings. A gang of labourers turned up in the morning and without any attempt at observing safety precautions simply bulldozed the old place to the ground. No attempt was made to preserve any of the wonderful woodwork, tiling or old brickwork which made such a feature of the house. Today, as I write, a year later the vermin infested wreckage still remains.- IMG_2497.psd: The Old Court - March 2007
