Egham Pubs history index
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Demolished around 2000 for residential use (Prince’s Court now sits on the site). *
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Prince of Wales, Bond street, Egham, Surrey - in 1997
Kindly provided by Bob Inman
Residents at this address
1878/T Winter/Beer Retailer/../../Post Office Directory of Surrey
1881/Thomas Winter/Beer Retailer, widow/30/Lambeth, Surrey/Census
1881/William J Hawkes/Son, Garden Boy/14/Egham, Surrey/Census
1881/Thomas Winter/Son/8/Egham, Surrey/Census
1881/Henry J Winter/Son/6/Egham, Surrey/Census
1881/Alfred D Winter/Son/3/Egham, Surrey/Census
1881/Walter J Winter/Son/1/Egham, Surrey/Census
1881/George Hawkes/Lodger, General Labourer/41/Egham, Surrey/Census
The February 1892 Petty sessions lists the Prince of Wales, Bond street.
William White is the current licensee; it is 300 yards from Holly Tree,
beerhouse
The 1903 Petty sessions lists the Prince of Wales, Bond Street, William
White is the current licensee; it is 228 yards from Holly Tree, 421 yards
from Armstrong Gun
On 14th January 1929 at St Judes church in Egham was the marriage of Walter John Dyos, a Valet from Bishopsgate aged 35 and Dorothy Lucy Irons, aged 24 years, of the Sun Inn, Bishopsgate, Englefield green. Her father was William Irons, electrician, deceased, and his is James Dyos, a policeman also deceased.
1937/Walter J Dyos, Prince of Wales, 1 Blays lane, Englefield Green, Egham/../../Kelly’s Directory of Surrey
In the 1939 electoral register at the Prince Of Wales, Bond Street, Egham are :
Walter J Dyos, Licensed Victialler, born 05 September 1893
Dorothy S Dyos, Domestic Duties, born 15 April 1904
June A Dyos (Williams), At School, born 04 June 1930
Dorothy G Edsa (Mitchell), Domestic Servant, born 15 March 1921
I was watching the Queen's funeral as her coffin comes into Windsor, 2022, which prompted me to look up the Prince of Wales Pub, Englefield Green. ***
I lived opposite the pub at 31 Bond Street ( corner of Blays Lane) between 1954 - 1961). My dad, Lawrence Ayton, whose parents had lived in the house before him, used to frequent this pub which was affectionately known as 'The Struggle'; dad once explained this was because it was a struggle to get in and even more of a struggle to get out!
I have vivid memories of going to the off licence which was at the side of the pub on Blays Lane. I was sent over to buy a bottle of cider and I remember Wally Dyos serving me. We used to take the bottles back in those days. ***
I only have distant memories of going into the pub itself, children didn't go into pubs then, but I may have been sent over to get my dad on occasion!
Wally Dyos and his wife bought our house when they retired, so he lived opposite the pub he was formerly landlord of. We moved to Essex.
I was sad when my sister, who now lives in South Africa, visited our old house back in 2016, told me the pub had been knocked down and houses / flats built on its site.
* Provided By Bob Inman
** Provided By Stephen Harris
*** Provided By Patricia Gleeson