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Date of photo: 2013	Picture source: Movement80
The Pegasus was situated at 61 Marlow Bottom. This pub closed in 2009 and has now been converted to a children's nursery.
Many years ago, I worked as a bus driver out of Maidenhead bus garage and we used to run the 18 service to Marlow. It mostly used lightweight buses so as to comply with the weight limit on Marlow Bridge. As an adjunct to the 18 service, for a while we ran a 'feeder' route to Marlow Bottom and there were a few regulars that used to use it in preference to walking up to main road to catch the 28, High Wycombe to Reading service. It's a fair step from the far end of Marlow Bottom to the main road so the few regulars who used to use it were doing so for shopping in Marlow rather than as a feeder to go anywhere else. If alighting passengers wanted the 'Pegasus' I would quietly announce it as the piggy's arse when we got there but just quietly enough to make 'em think they had mis-heard it. I did have a few comments of "What did you say ?" but I managed to stay a picture of innocence. Many years after that I was waiting at Maidenhead in the days of 'Bee Line' when a chap came across to ask about the 18 service to Marlow and had he missed it. I replied that he had and he asked when it left and I told him about ten years ago. He must have a had a very out of date timetable as this was in the late 1990s before we moved to the West Country. Because of the weight limit on Marlow Bridge, we were instructed that if we had more than 8 passengers on the bus, those over that number would have to get off and walk across. Even so, those on foot and the bus would be on the bridge at the same time, which made no sense whatever so the rule was universally ignored. I do remember an elderly Bisham resident commenting that he saw several US Army tank transporter lorries with Sherman Tanks on them crossing the bridge during 1943/44. Considering that a standard Sherman tank weighed about 38 tons, it made a bit of a nonsense of the 5 ton weight limit that pertained at the time.
Alan Bond (June 2022)
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Name Dates Comments Mark Valentine 1974-1997 Publican Teddy Rehill Too many stories to detail here. Anyone remembers me get in touch. All that is except one person and he knows who he is!! Malcolm Tongue 1984 Worked as a chef. Ted Rehill landlord, Sandra manager of bar, Paul Stargat head chef, me second chef
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