Two Dutchmen, Towngate, Marsden

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  • location: Towngate, Marsden
  • status: no longer exists
  • category: public house, beerhouse, inn, etc.

A date stone on the property read "W B 1762" and included two tulips.[1]

The premises was listed in the 1803 Alehouse Register when Reuben Langfield[2] was the licensee.

By January 1840, Samuel Whitehead was named as the landlord when the employees of Messrs. E. & J. Taylor enjoyed a Christmas dinner of roast beer and plum pudding.[3]

The premises closed in the 1960s and was demolished shortly afterwards.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Marsden: A Journey Through Time (2014) by Judi Thorpe & Mike Pinder, page 48.
  2. This was likely the Reuben Langfield born circa 1763 who married Mary Pounder in 1790 at Almondbury Parish Church.
  3. "Christmas Festivity" in Manchester Times (25/Jan/1840).
  4. It closed in 1968 according Marsden: A Journey Through Time (2014) by Judi Thorpe & Mike Pinder, page 48. However, Marsden - Then and Now: A Photographic Journey (2008) by Marsden History Group states it closed on 23 August 1962.