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The Compasses

Date of photo: 1936

Image taken from the Sharing Wycombe's Old Photographs website www.swop.org.uk, and shown with the permission of the copyright holder Wycombe Museum


The Compasses was situated at 57 Easton Street. It was better known as The Two Brewers and has now been demolished.
This pub was where Samuel Taylor Coleridge - poet of ’The Ancient Mariner’ - was quartered while serving as a horse–soldier in March 1794.
Nicholas Roe (October 2015)

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