Two Brewers - High Street, Olney, Buckinghamshire, UK
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Dragontree
N 52° 09.292 W 000° 42.090
30U E 657237 N 5780754
This public house lies in the main street in Olney.
Waymark Code: WMA6B8
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/23/2010
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The sign shows two brewers transporting a barrel of ale dressed in medieval attire and walking through the historic streets.
Here is an interesting article from the Olney & District Historical Society website describing the fire station and bombs in the war at the pub's location:
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'The first air-raid warning in Olney was from the steam driven tannery 'buzzer'. The tannery boiler was never allowed to go out. At that time it was coal-fired and didn't switch to oil until well after the war ended. Later a siren was positioned on the end of the Fire Station at the back of the Two Brewers inn. The two poles and the bracket on which the siren was mounted remain there to this day. I can't ever remember hearing the air raid siren when I was at school. It used to go off in the evenings and you would then sit under the table or under the stairs, but nothing spectacular happened.
I think we had two bombs here in Olney. They were dropped in a field on the Clifton side of the river, opposite the bathing place and not too far from the railway line. The blast travelled across East Street, funnelled up the back of the Two Brewers yard and through an archway into the High Street. It blew out the two windows across the street in Albert Lineham's shop (which was called 'the Linco'). The shop windows were boarded up for years because glass was unobtainable during the war. The Linco is now Stephen Oakley's Estate Agents. In bygone days, the archway (where the bar of the Two Brewers is today), was used by Olney's horse-drawn fire engine to enter the High Street.'
The pub was Grade II Listed on 6th May 1983. It is an 18th century building with many alterations.