Nostalgic memories of Cippenham's local history
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Displaying Memories 51 - 60 of 65 in total
There are 3 Hills on the memorial, but they're only dad's cousins, his father and 2 uncles came back from the trenches. Grandad (another Bill Hill, like dad) was always in the Legion and Gt Uncle Harry (who lived in Chalvey with his sis, Ethel) carried the flag on Remembrance Day. Funny how different generations used different pubs, my grandparents the Kings Head, uncles The Swan and our generation the Barleycorn. ...see more
There was a Twinch, Henry I think, owner of Cippenham MANOR (not Court farm which was nearby) and this was his shortcut, originally. This pic is taken from the footbridge put up for the Girls High School to cross the road to get their buses. The school was sold in the 1960s for housing and retail park, I think Wickes are still there. The bridge was removed in the 1980s? Twinches Lane is on the left, the linked traffic ...see more
I lived near here, we are looking the other way to the other pic, Dorothy Mutton's Post Office is in the distance. On the right is the elm hedge and bank which bordered the (dry) gravel pit where we played. It was wonderful! A dump for surplus council materials from which we could build camps. The best were the Anderson shelter bits, 1,000's of them! We made long "ghost trains" standing the curved sheets on edge and ...see more
Uncle Phil managed this branch of Hartwells garage after managing the one on the Bath Road next to the White Horse. Before that it had been the site of Rogers (?) watermill, the millpond stretching behind up towards Haymill school and the water passing beneath the railway to Cippenham brook. In the 50's my bro got into the mill via the brook under the railway! The mill wheel was saved (?) for a while it ...see more
This is beside the green where rival gangs of kids built and guarded their bonfires on Nov 5th, up on the corner is dads school (the museum has his report card) it was a pig farm when I was a kid! Next to it was the tin tabernacle and oppsite a bungalow where a chap had the key to the sluice to flood the rough part of the green for skating during the winter, in dad's time. Behind the photgraper was (Gt) Aunt Flo's house and behind that Gregory's plum orchard, great scrumping!
This was my senior school and I have to say I loved it. So many memories, too many to mention. Met my husband to be there in the 4th year as we used to call it, now year 11. I remember Mr and Mrs Duggan, Mr Heaton, Mr Good senior and Junior, Mr Borek, Mrs Bates, Miss Dyer, Mr Butcher, Mr Parsons, Miss Tebitt, Mr Terry Davies, Mr Poole, Mr Argyll, Mr Owen, Mr Cumper, Mr Hackitt, Mrs McGowen etc. ...see more
I was attending Westgate Secondary Modern School in 1971-2 and one lunchtime the whole class decided not to go back to lessons in the afternoon and go to the bowling alley instead. Some did opt out and went to lessons anyway. But lots of us did go to the bowling alley and I felt so guilty, I never played truant ever again. I was not very proud of myself and we spent the whole afternoon looking around ...see more
This the South Est Corner of the junction on the A4 known as Everret's Corner. Just around to the right from this position are some lock-up shops that I remember from the early 1950s which included a Gents Barbers. Further along still was the Essoldo Cinema and Ballroom (known locally as Dollies). Opposite this corner was a row of brick built shops which included a Post Office. The road running North from ...see more
This is Everret's Corner approached from the West. The road is the A4 and it is a good distance North of the real Cippenham Village. The main bus-stop for buses coming from Slough was right diagonally opposite the photographer's position. To his left would have been the Bishop Centre (seed merchant and landscaper gardening - Bishop's would later take over the "William Woods" garden centre).
My great grandfather Thomas Peck was born at Cippenham Green in 1844 and his birth was registered by his mother Jane.