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shillen
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When it was the library you use to enter the door on the right and only half this building was used as it ....the bit of the building from the old /new main door was closed to the public ......
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behindthefrogs
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The library only used the ground floor of the right hand wing. I am not sure how much of the rest of the house was used as the arts centre.
I did take a picture of the rear from the car park but it is just a mess of added buildings mainly obscured by the parked cars that it isn't worth posting.
Just to complete the picture here is a drawing of the original house.
David
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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RanR
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Dear all,
This great. I love this! I'm very sorry if I put everyone onto the wrong place in the first place. I too remember Montague House and the library and the stairs inside and the local arts society painting exhibition held there every summer in the forecourt outside the library, with the bus stop outside - but ... is it just my memory or have they put up a much more substantial wall since those days in the 1960s & 1970s and early 1980s (my parents moved away - after I had done - in 1987)?
This is a big favour and I realise I'm climbing on the back of the original request for information but my g g grandparents Rev Philip George Scorey and his wife Charlotte Denslow Stroud were in Wokingham for a few years while he was the minister at Wokingham Baptist in the 1860s. They had my g. grandmother Charlotte Scorey there in 1862 as well as a couple of other children after that.
In the 1861 census it says that Philip George Scorey was living in Broad Street with his father George (ret'd draper about 9 dwellings away from the baording school - presumably where we're talking about). then in the 1871 census after his marriage, Philip is living in Market Place about 3 dwellings away from 'Down Street'.
I can't work out where or which side of the road either of these properties would have been and whether they are still standing. Also, where was Down Street? Was it what is now called Denmark Street?
If anyone has access to the 1861 & 1871 census returns and can work it out, could you tell me if the buildings are still there and if so maybe point me to photos of them or their positions in the two streets? I would be most grateful.
My doctor at that surgery in Tudor house and then in the surgery in Rectory Road was Dr Kerr. He seemed a very nice man and took good care of us all.
Again, huge apologies for putting people onto the wrong building in the first place! Thanks for sorting it all out.
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Cornwall (west): HOSKEN, WOOLCOCK, DONNITHORNE, TREWEEK, TRESEDDER, MITCHELL, NANCARROW, REYNOLDS
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Herts: JUDD, UNCLE, RUMBALL
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Hhodgetts
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Wow, thanks to all who have taken part in this thread and especially 'behindthefrogs' for taking the time to go out and take a photo of the place as it is today and for providing the links to Imagesofengland. All fascinating stuff. I visited Wokingham last year and missed seeing the school my G'ma went to by a gnats whisker!!! At least I will now know where to go next time I find myself down in that neck of the woods. My cousin will also no doubt be very interested to know after all this time where the school was as he took me somewhere completely different to Broad Street lol.
Thanks everbody.
A very appreciative Philip.
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Northumberland; Johnson, Johnston, Dodds, Rutherford, Gray, Kennedy, Wilson, Sanderson, Davidson and other Border Marauders as they are discovered on this journey.
Berkshire; Knight, Bristor, Sharpe, Sharp, Ashley.
Suffolk / Essex; Perce, Pearce, Pearse, Pierce, Hayes.
Midlands; Hodgetts, Parker, Easthope.
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behindthefrogs
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Yes Down Street was renamed Denmark Street when the future King Edward VII married Alexandra Princess of Denmark.
I suspect most of the buildings in Broad Street and the Market Place date back to before 1900 and possibly to the 1860s although all those in the Market Place and some in Broad Street have been converted into shops.
Tudor House is at what used to be called Terrace Point across the end of Broad Street with the Terrace to the left of it and Milton Road to the right. I am trying to work out whether there are nine houses between Montague House and Terrace Point. In the other direction they are now nearly all shops.
The Baptist Church is on the right a little way down Milton Road. That was rebuilt in 1860 and now has a very modern extention added to the side of it. I prefer the extentions to the Methodist Church in Rose street which are in keeping with the original building. That was built in 1870 with Isaiah Gadd who owned Montague House being one of the "pillars" of the church.
Thw wall outside Montague House was strengthen and rebuilt in a number of places when the railings were added but is essnetially the same wall. I like the way the new gate very much resembles the original 1800 gate.
David
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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joyce341
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well done David,you certainly know the History Of Wokingham,dose the siren still go off for Broadmoor every day,near the car park off of Rose street,I remember it used to go off at ten o clock for testing every morning and was sounded if someone escaped,then all the children were met from school,one of my first jobs was in soft furnishing for Ellens of Rose St,I used to walk up there every day when I was at Palmer school also and down the alley way.
I also worked in Heelas in the toy department for the princely sum of £2 a week,LOL
Joyce
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Asker,Snettisham,Norfolk,Newby Howe,Kensington,SuffolkLawrence,Greenwich,Bermondsey.Putman,Kensington,Hertfordshire.
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behindthefrogs
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I think the siren going off every day would be a bit too much. It only sounds every Monday at 10.00am. I can only remember it being needed twice in the nearly forty years that I have lived in the town. The day time one was OK but the time that it sounded all night was a bit too much.
Was it the Heelas' store in Wokingham that you worked for or his relation's store in Reading which still exists today as part of the John Lewis partnership. We are back to Isaiah Gadd again because he came to Wokingham from Gloucestershire at the age of 18 originally to work in the Drapery Dept of Heelas. When he died he owned three businesses; a coal merchant, removals contractor and antique dealer.
David
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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joyce341
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My Dad aged two in 1891
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yes right again,every Monday,I remember it going of at least once in the fifties (I wont say when I will probaly get it wrong,LOL)but my brother met me from school with his bike,I was in Palmer school juniors at the time,I know once someone escaped and there was an incident in Wokingham.I also remember haveing the Maypole every year in the vicarage in Rectory Rd,(this one I have correct,LOL).
Dr Kerr rings a bell with me,our doctors was in Denmark street,Dr Rose,my Auntie used to be a usheret ,at the pictures Uncle Tom a bus driver(allways let me keep my fare)and grandad used to go on Sundays to see the cowboys for sixpence,it was just round the corner from him,so many memmories this site brings back,I look down the list of names searching and can come up with someone I went to school with that surname for most of them but they are in different area,s of Berks.
take care
Joyce
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Asker,Snettisham,Norfolk,Newby Howe,Kensington,SuffolkLawrence,Greenwich,Bermondsey.Putman,Kensington,Hertfordshire.
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shillen
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Yes I remember that siren going of !!! and all being sent home from school ..great loved it ...I seem to remember it going of twice in my time there ....but that must have been about 1979 1nd 1980!!
I to remember The rose pub being or burning down at regular intervals in my life time ......well alway needed a coat of paint !!
The only Doctor I remember was Dr Black at the tudor house ...and others but cant remember their names!! old age !
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behindthefrogs
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You went to the original Palmer School in Rectory Road I presume, the one that opened in 1875. Both of my children went to Palmer but on the new site that it moved to in the 1960s. Alas that is also no more. It merged with Whitlock Infants, which was on the same site School this September and is now called All Saints School but uses the same buildings.
I think it is a huge pity when when these historical names are lost. The Palmer family were the Palmers of Huntley and Palmer the Reading Biscuit makers.
The Whitlock family lived in Holt House in the 16th century. The Heelas family moved there from Buckhurst in 1855 and lived there until 1929, renting it for the first twenty years from the Crutchley family. Holt School was opened in 1930 and today is still a girls' secondary school.
David
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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shillen
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I went to keephatch infants and juniors when they took you at any age coz they had places.....
Shame when schools merge and you have to have new names for them.
i then went onto The Holt ..which I believe is still a girls school
Yes it is a shame when things change ...and its not always for the best!
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joyce341
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Hi Shillen,
my sister in law went to the holt,roughly 56 to 60.she lived on Norreys barn estate,
Joyce
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Asker,Snettisham,Norfolk,Newby Howe,Kensington,SuffolkLawrence,Greenwich,Bermondsey.Putman,Kensington,Hertfordshire.
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shillen
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Lots of people did .........but I was there about 10 years after her
I,ve just looked at the Keephatch website ....and hasnt that changed .....
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joyce341
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I did,nt LOL,St Crispins for me.
Joyce
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Asker,Snettisham,Norfolk,Newby Howe,Kensington,SuffolkLawrence,Greenwich,Bermondsey.Putman,Kensington,Hertfordshire.
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behindthefrogs
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My son went to Keephatch Infants before Palmer and my daughter went to Whitlock and then Palmer. They both went on to St Crispins. Things have changed because St Crispins is now arguably the best secondary school in town. A little different from the days when the children from Arborfield Garrison were bussed in every day.
David
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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