Cippenham, The Pond 1950
Photo ref:
C442003
Photo ref:
C442003
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Memories of Cippenham, the Pond 1950
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Cippenham, The Pond 1950
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Remember the council putting all the snow on the green. Cricket pitch opposite.
After school from Westage we would play in the tunnels made by the snow.
Then home to Moreton Way past the park on the left.
My ggg grandparents John Peck and his wife Martha lived in the cottages at one time. They have now been demolished to make way for a car park.
I lived in Westgate Crescent from 1936 to 1946. I suffered a severe head injury when hit by a speeding car on the Bath Road just past Eddy's cafe a few days before Christmas in 1940. I was 5 years old. We had heard that a shop in the parade was selling chocolate without a ration book and my friend and I were rushing to buy some. We never made it and as a very poorly child I shared a ward in the Slough ...see more
I remember the years that the pond used to freeze over in the winter, must have been the early 1960s, or maybe that winter of 1962-63 when we built igloos on the green opposite the cricket pitch, my, that was cold!
Also my dad's allotment was in behind the pond, down a little track just the other side, probably left of where this pic was taken...happy days.
Who remembers Nevilles yard? When the horses and ponies ...see more
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