A TOUR OF OLNEY MARKET PLACE - NUMBER 34
Solo (on the left) and Nightingale Jewellers
No 34 Market Place, 2005
Number 34 Market Place was probably the home of Mr Bannister, who in 1782 had the Parish Pump erected opposite his house on the Market Place. By the 1830's Miss Mary Mabley was running a Boarding and Day School there, and in 1841 had another teacher, six pupils aged between 5 and 14 and one servant. Ten years later, in 1851, there were only four pupils.

By the 1880's Number 34 was the Gibson family home. Later, in 1907 when Mr Murton ran the Post Office and a tobacconist business, a shop front was installed. Sowmans then acquired the property and incorporated it into their business, using it as their radio shop.

Being business premises there are no records of persons living at Number 34 in the 1936 Register of Electors.