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1901 to 2011
The Two Poplars – 118 Finchampstead Road
Up to 1901
The building is on the site of an earlier building and then was rebuilt or at least extensively altered
in the 1850s, probably at the time it was first used as a beer house. Recent additions dwarf the
older structure.
The Two Poplars was originally a beer house catering for the workers building the railway from
Guildford to Reading. The beer house was at first called the Engineer, and then the Engineer’s
Arms, or lngineers’ Arms. Sometime before 1880 the name had changed to the Two Poplars.
It was leased to various breweries before being sold to Henry Hewlett of the Waltham St. Lawrence
brewery in 1888.
