Tower and Town, July 2015

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Letter to the Editor

Follow Up to Tower and Town June 2015

Greetings from distant Ipswich.

Page number references below are to my book Grey Wethers--The Free Family in Marlborough and the Upper Kennet Valley. Interested in your Hancock features, I am speaking from long term memory but is there not a reference to one of the family on the carved door at 7 The Green (p.49). This is similar in style to the High Street door (p.98). Thomas Free was apprenticed to a cabinet maker and upholsterer [upholder] in Marlborough(p.22/23) as was James Hancock. The door was made in the Free family workshop so it would be nice to think that Thomas or his sons were aware of their illustrious predecessors. I am sure that David Rawlings of London Road can enlighten you--it may be that he was involved in carving the door. I would be interested to know if my memory is correct!?

Martin Crook, Grandson of Thomas Free