Wokingham corn mill - 1889

[baytree1970]

I'm looking for info on the corn mill in Wokingham.

My 2x great grandfather George Plank was a corn miller by trade and in 1889 he was living in Wokingham at Queen Street and working as an 'engine-driver at Corn Stores'. This info taken from the birth cert of his son, Robert Plank.

Also, does anyone know where Queen Street would have been?

Thanks
 

[tonepad]

There is a Queens Road in Wokingham off Twyford Road opposite Cantley Park.


Tony

[baytree1970]

Thanks - i think Queen's Road is more recent though, isn't it? I'm not familiar with the town but looking on an old map from the 1880s that area has yet to be developed. Thanks for the suggestion though.

[jc26red]

This is likely to have been his employer, the corn stores would have been in the centre of Wokingham.
https://www.wokingham-tc.gov.uk/museum/document/WTH0135

Maybe the road was renamed, I personally don’t know a Queens street and I have lived a couple of miles away for over 30 years.

[AlanBoyd]

I haven't managed to find Queen Street on any old map. I think that maybe it wasn't around for very long: searching newspapers only finds references for the period 1887 (an auction) to 1897 (situation wanted), so it may never have been named on large scale maps.

One reference revealed that there was a pub called The Cricketers Arms on Queen Street.

[jc26red]

Shame, by 1891 the family are living in Friday Street Henley on Thames

[tonepad]

There was a Corn Chandlers in Peach Street:

https://wokingham.today/wokingham-society-praises-martin-co-for-refurbishment-of-historic-corn-chandlers-building/


Tony

[rosie99]

Reading Observer 19 October 1889

- there is an article about Wokingham Cycle club cyclists parade - starting from Drill Hall in Denmark Street, through Market Place down QUEEN STREET up Peach Street, Broad Street, Station Road, Wellington Rd ......

[Watson]

I can't help with Queen Street, but there was a Queen's Terrace, off Rose Street, "a row of Victorian cottages", according to J. & R. Lea's Wokingham: A Pictorial History; there is a photo of the terrace (see illus. 17).