More queries from visitors to our website. Answers to the Chairman, Karl Lawrence.
Lionel Percy Smythe
Sally Hayles writes: Can you help me? I am researching an artist Lionel Percy Smythe, 1838-1918. The only book about him was written by his half-brother and Rosa Whitlaw. I think Rosa was an artist at some point too. Her address was Amerden, Taplow, Bucks. In 1910 she wrote about about Lionel in Northern France where the Whitlaws owned/rented a house near Boulogne. Does anyone know anything about the family?
The Cedar Bar
Ian Dunningham writes: Do you know anything of the history of the Cedar Bar, which existed in the old building complex containing the Orkney Arms, and fronted onto the A4 by Skindles? I lived in River Court, Ellington Road, 1958-69, and my wife worked part-time at the Cedar Bar around 1965-6. At that time Jim Douglas, the landlord, stumbled upon an old closed extension of the bar, which had been shut away since the end of World War Two. There was also an old ’sherry bar’ somewhere around Taplow Village/Taplow Station area.
Bonds Boat Yard
Patrick Smith writes: My father was a partner at Bonds Boat Yard. I shall be interested to hear from anyone who remembers him and also anyone who remembers the man who used to sell coke every Saturday morning at the gas works in Mill Lane.
Old Taplow Ware
Barry Carte writes: Thank you for the information about Old Taplow Ware. Still trying to find out more about the provenance of my mother’s 200mm-high, embossed vase decorated with flowers and 'Old Taplow Ware' on the bottom.
