The Free Press is going back in time with old photos and postcards of how Marlow used to be.

Here, Marlovian Michael Eagleton records his memories with pictures from a past era in the first of a new series of Marlow Memories.

WE'LL begin this new series with a special favourite of mine Quoiting Square at the beginning of the last century.

For many years, my aunt and uncle ran The Clayton Arms, but this view, with "Good Stabling" noted above the yard entrance, is a little before their time.

There are also family connections with the adjoining Neighbour's Stores to which we will return to in a couple of weeks. The posts in the foreground relate to the old game of Quoits which gave the square its name.

I'm not sure when the housing on the left, in the front of the Congregational (now United Reformed) Church was demolished, but it was certainly there when, at the age of five, I first attended the infants school a bit further up Oxford Road.

The headmistress was the formidable Miss Dawson.

Opposite the school gates, and now the entrance to Riley Road Car Park, was a two penny library and sweet shop. How many of you remember that?

Our series continues next week with the High Street in 1909.

Send in memories and old pictures to Nic Brunetti at the Marlow Free Press, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, HP10 9TY.