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Interesting juxtaposition here, the Guildhall from a scanned print of c.1689 together with a shot from today. There is what looks like a pair of bicycle handlebars in the bottom left hand corner of the old print. Surely not.
Apart from the extension to the Guildhall there has been little change. The building on the right is the excellent Three Tuns pub, which interestingly was the Town Hall before the newcomer was built. Perhaps if they put the bench back outside the ghosts of the two men outside the pub in 1689 might return for a pint of beer. King George III knew the pub,
Quote from the book mentioned on the Lanes page The Buildings of Windsor, P72 by Morris and Hoverd.
"The statue of Queen Anne in a niche on the west side was added by the townspeople in 1707, although this amiable but none too bright and somewhat gouty monarch was rather more rotund than her effigy would suggest."
Really gentlemen!
If the good burghers of windsor in 1707 could be more flattering to a lady than her reality warranted then surely a couple of historians in 1994 could have done the same. Politeness costs nothing you know.
But these historians. Another book, The Streets of Windsor and Eton (1988 Windsor Local History Publications group ISBN0950556726) contains an account of lost street names by a now sadly deceased brilliant and dedicated local historian Gordon Cullingham . His work is continued on the excellent and serious site about Windsor, Thamesweb, found on the llp.
But on p43 Mr Cullingham writes
"Some street names found in old records have just disappeared without trace, sometimes without their exact locations being know. These include the fourteenth century Gropecount Lane, with its obscene connotations, which was somewhere near the parish churchyard."
Gropecount Lane? Windsorsoup usually finds the naughty bits of everything but what is obscene about goosing a foreign nobleman? Cheeky yes. Or is Windsorsoup missing something here.
Anyway perhaps it was an injunction. Like a road sign. SLOW! STOP! GROPECOUNT