Broadmoor, Berkshire

People in Picture

Hoping you can help me identify two of the people in this photo. I have an old postcard with the same photo.

Here is what I know:

Standing (left to right) Princess Victoria, The Duchess of Connaught, Queen Alexandra, Prince Christian of Schleswig Holstein, UNKNOWN?, Princess Patricia of Connaught, UNKNOWN?

Sitting: (left to right) The Duke of Connaught,... [more]

Running

My best memory of Little Sandhurst was being able to run freely through Wellington College woods as I was an avid fan of athletics and still am.  I lived in Edgbarrow Rise and can remember people like Peter Searle, John Irwin (now deceased), Peter Barber (now deceased), Derek and David Wood and many more.  My mum used to work in the... [more]

Living at the Post Office

When I was a teenager I lived at the Post Office that is now a hardware shop, at the eastern end of the village. I was in the church choir and in the bell-ringers. Used to ride my bike down to the cricket field to watch the games. My father, Harry Gardner, was the Postmaster and ran the associated grocery store.... [more]

grounds of the Royal Military Academy

While I was growing up in Sandhurst, the grounds of the College was open to the public and we could walk from the village of Sandhurst through to Camberley. This building with parade ground in front is famous for the white horse which always entered the building up the steps when the passing out parades had finished. In front of this... [more]

wedding day

St Michael's Church, where I was christened in 1940, I was married there in June 1960. A beautiful church set in the countryside just out of the village.

childhood memories

This is the street where I was born in 1940, our house is just out of sight, but when I left school in 1955 I worked for a short while in the shop adjoining the post office. Sadly my father, who was in the Army, was posted to Colchester, Essex and so we left Sandhurst in June 1955. But it was... [more]

St Michaels School

I used to go to the school here - St Michaels.  Every week we walked up to the church, two by two, past the farm where Wild Ridings is now. I remember when there were cows grazing there and harvest festival service was relevant to the farmers.
Later I worked at Church Hill House on Ward 4 (1973).  The Hospital has... [more]