112 High Street

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Summary:

Earliest information: 1814
Original estate: Dean and Canons of Windsor
Common Rights? No
Date of current building:
Listed? No

Thumbnail History:

Robinson -> Bird -> Atherton -> Alexander (grocer) -> Bodman (draper) -> Dopson -> Bates Antiques -> Astor art gallery -> Age of Elegance -> The Emporium.

Photo Gallery:

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- The Emporium, 112 High Street, March 2010.

- Buildings around 112 High Street, c.1871.

- Hungerford Gallery closing sale, 1991.

- Age of Elegance, 112 High Street, March 2007.

Timeline:

1421 (NH) Dean & Canons of Windsor.

1814 (DD) Survey CC120149 St George's Windsor, describes "Miss Robinson, adjoining the Plume of Feathers. Tenement. 2 rooms in front, Bakehouse & Convenient Offices, 3 Sleeping rooms, one Stable for 1 horse, Garden & Land in the Occupations of Tho. Pick. 2 acres, 1 rod, 14 perches. Value £16-0-0."

1819 (EA) Bird.

Alexander's grocers, c.1830s-c.1855:

(Further work required to clarify these dates).

1840 William Atherton [From records of 111 HS: 1840 (NH Berks RO D/Elm T8) Lease of Craven Arms – William Millis of Charnham Street to William Toms and John Matthews, brewers of Hungerford, for 21 years, now in occupation of Richard Palmer and including the right to go with a horse through the passage on the north side, ingress and egress subject to the right of William Atherton of the adjoining messuage.]

1841 (CS) Benjamin Alexander (30) grocer.

1844 (*3) James Bodman of Trowbridge died 14.12.1844 aged 71 years.

1846 (*3) James Bodman (the younger) died 18.3.1846 aged 14 years.

1847 (*3) Thomas Bodman died 20.1.1847 aged 10 years.

1851 (CS) Benjamin Alexander (-),grocer, 3 men.
1851 (CS) Benjamin Alexander - grocer, employed 6 men. (James Bodman (47) linen draper, at 25 High Street. Probably, James Bodman moved from 25 HS to 112 HS in the mid 1850s)

Bodman's draper's, c.1855-1979:

1861 (*3) Jane Bodman, wife of James Bodman, died 23.3.1851.

1862 (*3) Mary Ann Bodman, daughter of James and Hannah Bodman, died 24.4.1862, aged 18 years.

1869 (PO) James Bodman - linen & woollen draper.(?site)
1871 (CS) James Bodman (67) - linen draper.
1874 (*3) James Bodman died 10.11.1874, aged 74 years. (Memorial stone)

1877 (KD) Mrs. Hannah Bodman, linen and woollen draper, HS.

1881 (CS) Charles Bodman - draper.
1886 (DD) of 113HS refers to Charles Bodman to the S.
1886 (DD) Dean and Canons of Windsor (The Ecclesiastical Commissioners For England) sold to Charles Bodman, draper for £600

1891 (KD) Mrs Hannah Bodman - linen & woollen draper.
1896 (*3) Hannah Bodman, wife of James Bodman, died 13.6.1896, aged 87 years.

1903 (KD) Charles Bodman - linen draper.

19120416 Tutti men outside Bodmans, 112 High Street Tutti-men outside Bodman's, 112 High Street, 16 April 1912. (Albert Parsons, colourised)

1937 (DD) Charles Bodman died 18.2.1937.

1937 (DD) James William Gibbs (nephew of Charles Bodman) inherited the property. Conveyed to Rolland William Childs.

1939 (BL) Bodman & Co. (R.W. Childs), drapers
1939 (KD) Charles Bodman & Co - drapers.
19?? (Mrs May Marks, Ramsbury) Mr Charles Bodman (batchelor) had a resident millener - Miss Bonniface & also Miss Phillips lived there, sold to nephew, Mr Gibbs, who later sold to Mr & Mrs Childs, thence to Dopson.

1955 Mr & Mrs Herbert Dopson -> 1979

1978 Bodmans - outfitters.

Keith & Pat Bates - Antiques, 1979-1982:

"To the Manner Born" - bathrooms, 1982-c.1984:

The Hungerford Gallery (Richard Astor), c.1984-1991:

See Oct 1987 Exhibition brochure (including Charles Low painting).

1991 Astor picture gallery closed August 1991.

Age of Elegance - antiques and gifts, 1992-2007:

2007 Age of Elegance closed – went into liquidation (as did the Marlborough branch).

The Emporium (antiques), 2008-present:

Oct 2008 "The Emporium" – antiques booths opened.

Summer 2008 CoCo & Co Designer Clothing opened on first floor front.
Dec 2009 CoCo & Co moved to 13 Bridge Street.

Oct 2025: Re-opened by Ken & Claire Calloway.

Key to notes:

*3 = URC graveyard - memorial stones

EA - Enclosure Award map, 1819.