The High Wycombe Society

PICTURE (TOP):
Workers at
Marlow Brewery
around 1900.
  • Brewer and brewery around 1900 – a few words from Charles Raffety

ABOVE: Old Bank House (left) and Wheelers brewery on Easton Street, High Wycombe, photographed in 1933.

‘The Old Bank House (Nos. 93 and 94) and Brewery complete our wanderings. A plain, substantial comfortable structure but no pretensions to architectural beauty, home of the first Robert Wheeler, Alderman, Mayor many times, banker, brewer and local philanthropist, who, coming to Wycombe as partner early in the 19th century, probably exercised more influence over the town's future than any man, and whose wise activity in public life was always of a most beneficial character.

‘The business, when he joined it, was that of brewer and maltster, and Mr. Wheeler added banking in 1812 when he became sole proprietor. He died about 1850, and other members of the family, notably Alderman Thomas Wheeler continued to occupy the old home. The Brewery remained...’

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This is an extract from A Guide to Old Wycombe High Street and Easton Street by Charles Raffety, newly republished on-line by the society, edited by Jackie Kay.
  • Who we are:
  • The High Wycombe Society exists to encourage people to love and cherish the town of High Wycombe; to influence and advise on issues including, but not limited to, planning, transport, heritage and the local environment; to maintain, operate and demonstrate Pann Mill, the last working mill on the River Wye.
  • Our activities:
  • Unfortunately we have had to suspend our programme of activities due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
  • Our recent publications:
  • We have produced a new edition of
    A GUIDE TO OLD WYCOMBE HIGH STREET AND EASTON STREET by Charles Raffety, edited a century later by Jackie Kay,
    – read this on-line.
  • We have continued to publish our quarterly newsletter – view the latest issue.
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Thanks to Jackie Kay at the High Wycombe Society for providing content for this page.