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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- ↑ Marsden: A Journey Through Time (2014) by Judi Thorpe & Mike Pinder, page 48.
- ↑ This was likely the Reuben Langfield born circa 1763 who married Mary Pounder in 1790 at Almondbury Parish Church.
- ↑ "Christmas Festivity" in Manchester Times (25/Jan/1840).
- ↑ 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.