INSTITUTE

The first Trustees were the Rev. Henry Meeres, George Stratton, Farmer Thomas Parsons, Brewer Arthur Ives of Princes Risborough Farmer, Timothy East, Coal Merchant and John Eggleton, Farmer Within a few years the Institute was also serving as the Magistrate's Court, which had originally been held at the Cross Keys Inn and later at the George & Dragon. Such was the law-abiding nature of the townsfolk that Sessions were only ever needed on one morning a month. Sadly, in 1980, this function was transferred to a central court in Aylesbury and a centuries-old tradition of local justice administered by local people came to an end... The Institute had always lacked one important asset, the right to any of the land to its rear, all of which had remained part of the main farmhouse estate, with only a right of way to deliver wood and coal via the covered way. The opportunity to remedy this was seized when in 1932 Charles Ayres sold the farmhouse and the Close behind it to Raymond Hester & Sons,..

Primary location: Princes Risborough United Kingdom