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37 & 38 Market Place - 2012
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This property was once an inn or alehouse. For details see "The Old Inns of Olney" by Elizabeth Knight, published by Baracuda Books 1981 and available in the Olney library. The Catherine Wheel.

More information on the history of these Market Place properties during the period 1800 to the 1950s is available by selecting one of the ODHS 'Market Place Tours on the 'ODHS HERITAGE TRAILS' header web page, as per the following link:

https://www.mkheritage.org.uk/odhs/all-odhs-heritage-trails/

Listed building

The building is listed with particulars as follows.

Grade II LateC18, ashlar stone, shallow pitched slate roof, wide moulded verges to gables, brick chimney stacks. Central triangular pediment within which is a segmental arch with keystone. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Three storeys with stone first floorband. Segmental arch in centre with wide architrave breaking into floor band. Three windows each side, modern plate glass in old openings. Five windows to first floor (spaced 1:2:2) and three on second floor all barred double hung sashes in plain stone architraves with keystones and moulded cills. Rubblestone gable to High Street South, and 2-storey rear wing with one large sash window to ground floor and carriage entry adjacent to No 26 (q.v.), two sash windows to first floor.
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Nos 37&38 Market Place - 2012 		     
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The following people are associated with 37 & 38 Market Place - 2012:

Name Year of Birth Year of Interest Source Occupation/Notes Probability
Thomas FREEMAN 1829  1891 Census  Builder(Partly Blind)  100%
S J Freeman   1910 Revenue Survey  Owner/occupier  100%
W J Freeman   1910 Revenue Survey  Tenant  100%
S J Freeman   1910 Revenue Survey  Owner  100%
Walter Steff Freeman 1854  1911 Census  Carpenter  100%
Selina Jane Freeman 1832  1911 Census  Private Means  100%
Harrold Austin Freeman   1936 Election Register  at 38 Market Place  50%
Alma Evelyn Freeman   1936 Election Register  at 38 Market Place  50%
Dorothy Evelyn Freeman   1936 Election Register  at 38 Market Place  50%
Margueret Jane Freeman   1936 Election Register  at 37 Market Square  50%
Florence A RICHARDSON   1951 Election Register  at 37 Market Place  100%
Robert Cecil RICHARDSON   1951 Election Register  at 37 Market Place  100%
Dorothy Irene PRICE   1951 Election Register  at 38 Market Place  100%
Lawrence John C PRICE   1951 Election Register  at 38 Market Place  100%
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