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On part of the site of King James I's Palace. www.newmarketshops.info has detailed history of that era. click here to go to the Newmarket Shops website for more details |
| A lot of Newmarket history went when the remains of the palace were demolished and this building and the adjacent Toy Store were built in
the 1830s.
The Marlborough Club's formation is not yet known. The Club existed in the 1911 census and there is reference in the Bury Free Press of August 1915 of the Club and Mr T Waters The Club was entered by a doorway in Market Street, and was there at least as early as 1911 since Thomas Waters is given in the census as the steward there. Up to 1941 the Marlborough Club was on the upper floor of Freeman, Hardy & Willis, on the High Street corner of Market Street. On Tuesday 18th February 1941 it received the first of a stick of 10 bombs dropped along the High Street by a Luftwaffe bomber. Louisa Waters, the wife of the steward was killed, also William Doig and Richard Jennings. William Whelan working in Hepworths, the next door shop was also killed by the same bomb. . The Club temporarly moved to the Vctoria Mansions (Carlton Hotel).
During WW2 Kingston House was used for a wartime operations centre. In 1950 planning permission was granted to move the Marlborough Club to the ground floor of Kingston House,
where it remained until ithe club's eventual closure.
In the late 1990 it was apparently suffering from a lack of interest and the original club closed in 1997. Some other organisations ("Del
Boy's Ready Teddy Disco was one such) attempted to rescue
it but failed and In 2012 Marlborough Club Ltd was incorporated and trades as King's Restaurant and in 2016 planning permission was granted
to convert much of the building into up to 26 letting bedrooms.
The site of the bombing, when rebuilt after the war, originally had the Newmarket Journal offices upstairs, still with the entrance from
Market Street.
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| Year | Licensee | Owner | source |
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| 1911 | Thomas Waters (steward) | census | |
| 1939 | Thomas Waters (steward) | 1939 register | |
| 1941 | Thomas Waters (steward) | ||
| 1941 - | records not found | ||
| 1999 - | Kevin Philbinprivate members club | ||
Marlborough Club 18th February 1941
then and now
about 2006
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