A TOUR OF OLNEY MARKET PLACE - NUMBER 16
W V Turner & Son
Nos 16 & 17 Market Place, 2005
Number 16 Market Place, the building to the left of the photograph, was the Rose and Crown Public House, kept by the Revis family for over a hundred years. Mrs Sarah Revis, widow of Tom Revis, was landlady until 1809 when it passed to a John Revis. He was followed for seven years by three 'outsiders' and then in 1830, the inn returned to the family when a Tom Revis became landlord. In 1844 the landlord was John Howkins Revis, but in the 1841 Census John Brown is listed as Victualler - he was probably a tenant. George Revis was the last recorded Revis landlord.

The Census Returns of 1861 and 1871 record William Marriott as landlord of the Rose and Crown. Previously, in 1851, he had been landlord of the Saracen's Head. William Hipwell, the local brewer, owned the premises in 1872. By 1883 James Andrews was the landlord and also appeared to have had a shop on the premises. By 1887 Jonathan Drage was the publican and continued to be so until the Rose and Crown's closure around the turn of the 20th Century. Afterwards it became shop premises.

J M Law ran the Boot Mart from this building in 1902 and 1903. She was followed by the butchers, Eastman, from 1907 to1920, then William Crouch had a fishmongery business there. (His wife, Elizabeth, ran a sweet shop at Number 17 in 1934.) Lewis Rogers ran a bakery in 1931 having transferred the business from Number 17, next door. Four years later it became a grocery run by Theophilus R Maynard. By 1939 Wilfred Vincent Turner had begun his hardware business there.