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shillen
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Well I went to Keep Hatch when Miss Arnold and Mr Lee were there !!!! I would guess that Miss Arnold has long gone ..as I think she was 90 when I went ...Mr Lee has also gone as he passed away some year ago from Cancer ...
St Dustbins............LOL I dont think things were any better at any of the schools back then BUT Miss Holland at The Holt wasnt to be messed with !!!!
what a lovely thread ....memories!
I guess ..behindthefrogs is as it says ............?
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joyce341
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My Dad aged two in 1891
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in my day,the children from Arborfield were bussed in and we had no trouble,i knew a lot of them,nobody messed with Mr Bancroft or Mrs Andrews,I did hear in my nephews and neices day that it was quite bad but my neice is a chartered accountant and liveing in New Zealand and apparently her friend was something to do with the take over of Hong Kong back to the chinese,so I guess its down to the people not the school,she did it on her own,had to lodge while doing a levels put herself through Cardiff University to become Chartered and gained the Highest Marks,she was there in the 70,s.
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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Going back to the original photograph. I did wonder about Broad Street in Wokingham, being the only level straight street but I think the street in the picture is too long. What does anyone think about Bracknell before it was mutilated?
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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Wow! This has really turned into a Wokingham memories thread. do you think we ought to change its name?
Thank you for the information about the change of street name for Down Street.
I woudl like to agree with Joyce about Heelas actualy having premises in Wokingham. We moved to Wokingham in 1964 jsut before my 4th birthday and I have a long-held memory of the shop with its wooden flooring and a central wooden staircase going up directly opposite the main entrance. There were counters on each side of the downstairs sales floor - on the right and the left and it was all old wooden shelving etc. The floor creaked!! I can't remember the upstairs at all - maybe that's where the toys were and I wasn't taken up there very often!
I think it was near the corner of Rose Street and Market place about where Millwards used to be (the shoe shop - I'm doing loads of BTs searching for the Reading parishes in the 1700s at the moment and there are lots of Millwards there as I keep muddling them up with my Millards that I'm searching for!). I seem to have some vague recollection that Boots moved there some time more recently? I'm afraid that I've not been to Wokingham for the last 14 years so am not sure about the more recent changes.
I think Heelas must have changed hands in the later 1960s and probably by the time I went to the Holt in 1971. I was at Embrook school before that - lovely place! I really enjoyed it there.
Yes I've been in the Baptist church many times and the Methodist church as well and agree with you about their extension. I suppose that's why I was a bit puzzled by your reference to the Waitrose carpark being behind Montague House as I remembered it being beside Rose Street Methodist even into the 1990s. Does that mean that Waitrose have taken over the alleyway that came through from Palmer Road and that rough scrubland area by the old Palmer shcool site into Rose Street where there was the little tiny house where someone I knew lived?
Thank you for taking the time to work out the houses for me in Broad Street/Market Place etc. I've been trying to do the same thing where I live now as our shop is in a 17th century weaver's home and is the only property left in this street now - the rest is under a carpark. Using census returns isn't always the easiest way I've found as sometimes buildings were dividied up for families to share, or little tenements etc were sometimes built in a garden or alongside a house to give extra room (and they haven't always survived).
I was quite surprised that so many of the buildings in Broad Street must have been shops in the 1860s/1870s as they never seemed to be that kind of building when I knew the town. Most of the shops had moved out of that road and were in Denmark Street and Peach Street and the Market Place. Mind you, in those days they didn't tend to have large plate windows in shop fronts as I assume that they weren't able to make such large areas of glass.
One last thought ... when looking at the census returns for my Scorey family I noticed that there was a Boarding School in Broad Street. Would that have been the Grosvenor House school even then (and in Montague House)? I did notice that in the 1900s census there were a couple of other schools around mentioned as being boarding schools like the Wixenhoe one that must now be Ludgrove down Easthampstead Road. That one out on the Barkham Road still puzzles me and I think it must have moved out of that building into Luckley school to become Luckley Oakfield school. Maybe that's when the children's home moved into it and then the home for the elderly. Any thoughts?
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Berks: MILLARD
Cornwall (west): HOSKEN, WOOLCOCK, DONNITHORNE, TREWEEK, TRESEDDER, MITCHELL, NANCARROW, REYNOLDS
Cambs/Hunts: LANGFORD, WRIGHT
Derbys: MOTTRAM
Hants/Surrey (London): BRACKSTONE, SCOREY, DENSLOW, POULTER, WYLD, KINCHIN, RANGER, LEWIS, DAVIES
Herts: JUDD, UNCLE, RUMBALL
Nth Yorks: MOON
Suffolk/Essex/Cambs: WINNY, SARGENT, DICKERSON, RUSH, WATTS, PICKESS, MASON, SCOTCHER, ADAMS, FERNSWORTH
Shropshire: GOUGH, BYWATER, POULTER
Warks/Worcs: WHITE, SALMON, WOODWARD, WIMBLETT
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shillen
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Yes I did wonder if it was Wokingham coz of the building on the right half way along .....may be what I knew as the post office ??
I didnt know Bracknell well enought
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RanR
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Sorry! Also missed your thought David about the original 'event in Berks' photo.
I wondered about Bracknell and then considered Nine Mile Ride and Crowthorne way. it's those trees that puzzle me. I don't think it could be up Finchampstead way but maybe California. Was there anything there then?! It doesn't look a huge place but it does seem to have a bit of height to it, looking into the background - almost like Barkham but I don't think the trees are right.
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Berks: MILLARD
Cornwall (west): HOSKEN, WOOLCOCK, DONNITHORNE, TREWEEK, TRESEDDER, MITCHELL, NANCARROW, REYNOLDS
Cambs/Hunts: LANGFORD, WRIGHT
Derbys: MOTTRAM
Hants/Surrey (London): BRACKSTONE, SCOREY, DENSLOW, POULTER, WYLD, KINCHIN, RANGER, LEWIS, DAVIES
Herts: JUDD, UNCLE, RUMBALL
Nth Yorks: MOON
Suffolk/Essex/Cambs: WINNY, SARGENT, DICKERSON, RUSH, WATTS, PICKESS, MASON, SCOTCHER, ADAMS, FERNSWORTH
Shropshire: GOUGH, BYWATER, POULTER
Warks/Worcs: WHITE, SALMON, WOODWARD, WIMBLETT
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behindthefrogs
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What used to be Waitrose and its carpark is now a Marks and Spencer; with as you say the carpark by the Methodist Church and the shop in Peach Street.
A new Waitrose is now in the middle of the area between Broad Street, Rectory Road and Rose Street. The carpark entrance is in Rectory Road with deliveries going down the road where the old Palmer School used to be. There are pedestrian entrances from Rose Street and Broad Street, one of which goes down the left hand side of Montague House. Nearly all of the shops and houses on that side of Broad Street back onto the carpark.
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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behindthefrogs
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Back to the original photograph. I don't think the trees should worry you. It is difficult to tell from the photograph but they look like Scots Pine or something similar. They were probably felled years ago before the days of tree preservation.
I can't think of any where on Nine Mile Ride or in the Crowthorne area where the road is level and the buildings so close to the road.
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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behindthefrogs
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Luckley School was established in 1918 on the site of Luckley Manor. Oakfield School was established in the Lake District in 1895. The two schools were amalgamated on the Wokingham site in 1959 to form Luckley Oakfield School. They were both high class girls boarding schools.
I used to examine life saving in the area and Luckley Oakfield was the only place where I was given tea in a cup and saucer, with biscuits on a separate plate all served on a tray with a serviette.
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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I must have missed something,?what picture are you talking about?my dad and mum lived at nine mile ride dureing the war at Rose Cottage,he grew and sold vegetables there,a painter and decorator by trade worked for Browns in Milton Rd for Years,then Road research Crowthorne.
I remember when Heelas caught fire,one of the boys in my class,his dad was a fireman,who died in the blaze.
Joyce
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Asker,Snettisham,Norfolk,Newby Howe,Kensington,SuffolkLawrence,Greenwich,Bermondsey.Putman,Kensington,Hertfordshire.
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fatty fuller
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i have enjoyed our trip down memory lane i to was at st chrispins from 1964-1967 with Mr Bancroft and Mrs Andrew's mis Phipps and mis Knowles
my nick name was fatty fuller any one out there i know
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jc26red
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I've lightened the photo for you, hopefully someone will now recognise it, though I can't 
If you are able to rescan the original photo at 600dpi and send it to me (pm me for my addie) I will try and blow up the sign to see if I can make out any of the lettering.
Note the very small doorway close to the sign?
ps, my goddaughter (my avatar) and her sister also went to the Holt.
The last time the Broadmoor siren went off was in the early 90's if I can recall  but as David mentioned it's still tested every Monday morning!
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jc26red
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My thoughts on a date,
It looks like a happy procession and behind what looks like a bus is a horse and carriage.
Dated by the hats I would say between 1920-30, could be something to do with the marriage of George VI in April 1923, although that was at Westminster, I'm wondering if they came back to Windsor and had a local procession at some point. Its nowhere in Windsor that I recognise on a flat road. Though there were gabled houses along the Dedworth road, the houses are not as old as the ones in this photo with the small door etc and they had small gardens to the front.
I shall ask my dad if he recognises it.
Jenny
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RanR
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Thank you for lightening this. The Dedworth Road sounds interesting although I don't know it at all. What interests me is the background at the end of the road - is it some hills?
As far as the Broadmoor siren is concerned, I can remember it going off about twice during my time at the Holt. The second time was when I was in the sixth form. Unfortunatley some of my friends had not had their indemnity form altered since our first year at the school so still had to wait at school till their parents came to collect them! One girl ended up staying most of the evening because her mother had gone to London for the day and she wasn't allowed to walk home by herself (even though she was 17!). Mind you, it was quite a serious escape I think. The road blocks went up instantly and were there for about a week.
The other problem was the fact that the siren was in the top corner of Joel Park right opposite the school and near to the sixth form unit. So when I was sitting my A level music exam in the sixth form unit, starting at 9am on a Monday morning, we had some bother trying to hold 4 part string quartet compositions in our heads while that awful siren went off for 15 minutes (siren, a short break and then the 'all clear') right next to our building. It just wasn't in the right key at all!
My last memory of the Broadmoor siren and related topics was the WADE walk that took place every year at that time. It was a 20 mile sponsored walk for the Woking and District Association for the Elderly and one year Jimmy Saville took part. He did a lot of charity work with Broadmoor and the route went right past the hospital - I can remember that it was quite an impressive building with a huge craggy moat area (not filled with water) around the outer walls - pretty daunting if you were going to try to escape that way. Jimmy Savill was wearing bright yellow platform boots for the walk that year!!
OK. Enough reminiscing and boring you all - off to work!
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Berks: MILLARD
Cornwall (west): HOSKEN, WOOLCOCK, DONNITHORNE, TREWEEK, TRESEDDER, MITCHELL, NANCARROW, REYNOLDS
Cambs/Hunts: LANGFORD, WRIGHT
Derbys: MOTTRAM
Hants/Surrey (London): BRACKSTONE, SCOREY, DENSLOW, POULTER, WYLD, KINCHIN, RANGER, LEWIS, DAVIES
Herts: JUDD, UNCLE, RUMBALL
Nth Yorks: MOON
Suffolk/Essex/Cambs: WINNY, SARGENT, DICKERSON, RUSH, WATTS, PICKESS, MASON, SCOTCHER, ADAMS, FERNSWORTH
Shropshire: GOUGH, BYWATER, POULTER
Warks/Worcs: WHITE, SALMON, WOODWARD, WIMBLETT
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