Fond Memories
A Memory of Bracknell.
My family moved to Bracknell in 1961 from Lancashire. I can remember some of the shops in Crossway. At the top end by the High Street was a toyshop, next door was a gents clothes shop nearly opposite that was Miller Morris and Brooker a hardware shop and them the coffee bar, the other shops I cant recall.
We used to go to the pictures at the bottom of the high street which was next door to Strachans garage. Opposite was the Red Lion Pub.
For quite a few years noting seemed to change. We were shown models of what comes next at my School Wick Hill.
I left the area around 1973 and did come back until the new century and was total lost the place had changed so much I got lost. I had to head to Binfield rd to get the surroundings back into my head.
Some places were the same, I stayed the night once at the Admiral Cunningham and a few years later a couple of times at the Hilton on Bagshot rd.
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The toy shop you mentioned was Kiddies Corner. I have a newspaper cutting showing my (then) young daughter sitting on the edge of the flower bed outside. At the other end of Crossway was the large Co-op Store. The Red Lion is still there but the cinema and Garage is now a multi-story car park,
For some time the council have talked about re-generation of the town. Last year they started by pulling down the whole of the Broadway, all of Crossway and a chunk of the High Street
right now the whole place resembles the back streets of east and south London after Hitler had decided to re-arrange the place. We are told the new shops will start to be opened around 2017.
Since we moved here Bracknell has undergone so many changes and expanded in size so much it is hardly recognisable. Sadly to do any serious shopping I now travel to either Slough, Reading or Camberley.
Originally my wife and I came from Battersea.
At least Bracknell is a very low crime area and we have good neighbours.
Keep in touch.
Ron Large.
One boxing day aged just 2 I was taken to kiddies corner to buy a toy as everyone bought me clothes and u couldn't understand why I had no toys. Then came the new town. Rose Cottage was pulled down and the co-op was build where my grandparents beautiful garden and house had stood. I have never forgiven the decisions of the council to wreck the small market town. It is now a monstrosity with no town center no worthwhile shops and no heart. Holy Trinity Church stands defiant where many members if my family were married and had their funerals. A lone Aunt still attends a midweek service. Oh dear what has happened. Does anyone have any photos of the old ambulance station or Clifford's Dairy or even the Home and Colonial where my mother took her first job?