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Slough Safety Town & The Teds

I remember going to Slough on a Saturday night in 1958. I was fifteen years old. My hair was well greased and combed back at the sides and ending in a D.A. at the back together a quiff at the front. I was dressed in my best jacket, which was far too big for me, but that was the style then, and with very tight drainpipe trousers. This had been done by a woman who charged me a mere five shillings for her work. I not only felt good, I looked sharp too. The effect was brought to perfection thanks to the almost new pair of crepe shoes my uncle gave me in a rare moment of generosity. I took the 81 bus to Slough and was flattered when the bus conductor told me I looked like Terry Dene, who was enjoying success at the time. I met a mate at Crown Corner who was similarly dressed, but without the... Read more

Taking A Tumble in 1960

High Street 1961
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Seeing this photo bought back painful memories!  The year before this photo was taken I was in my usual rush to get from Slough Technical School to my home in Langley.  This meant changing buses in Slough and if you were very lucky you could get off one bus and straight onto another.  This day however, I saw a number 81 bus picking up riders at the Crown corner in the centre of town.  I leapt off my bus and made a mad dash across the road, no doubt giving some drivers a bit of a scare in the process, and made a wild grab for the handle at the back of the bus as it pulled away.  Unfortunately I just didn't have the strength to make that last jump onto the platform and had to let go.  That was when my foot caught in a paving stone and I must have made a spectaular sight as I rolled over and over down the pavement.  What hurt the most was... Read more

Maingate

Slough Trading Estate, Cippenham 1961
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This photograph is of the entrance to the Slough Trading Estate at Cippenham, taken from in front of the Berlei factory.

Slough, Bucks And Denham Middlesex

Slough Trading Estate, Cippenham 1961
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I was born in Slough in 1938. It was in Buckinghamshire then. I eventually lived in Denham, Buckinghamshire (see my posting for Memories of Denham in the Middlesex listing). Since I left England in 1959, the changes seem to have been significant - my birth city and home village have changed counties, the currency has changed but life has moved on and the whole world has changed it seems. My last visit to Slough was in 1996 and even some of the streets and roadways have been re-routed and changed in my 30 years away. My school, Slough Technical, was once called Tonman Mosely and now that has gone and a new, doubtless better school has replaced it. The face of Slough and its population was so very different that I was in somewhat of a shock to see how the town had changed so much. I think I prefer the old Slough and Farnham Common where I spent my very early... Read more

Slough Post Office

1958 was the year I passed my motorcycle test and became a boy messenger, or telegram boy, working out of the the GPO head office in the high street, riding the iconic red BSA Bantam motorbikes. It was good at the time, and the experience only gets better with the passing of the years. Golden days.

SLOUGH HIGH STREET - PARK STREET & CHANDOS ROAD

High Street c1960
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Hi, I am researching my family tree and am trying to locate Chandos Road and Unity Cottages in Park Street. I believe that Chandos Road was knocked down when the Queensmere Centre was built. I wondered if anyone knew which two roads leading on to the High Street are shown in this picture - I'm hoping they may be the two roads I am looking for - I understand they were nearly opposite each other on the High Street. In the 1911 census, my Grandfather lived at 42 Chandos Road and my Grandmother lived in 4 Unity Cottages, Park Street. I'm also keen to locate Nash's Cottages in Wexham Road (Nan was born there in 1903). My email address is jan.saunders1@virgin.net, if anyone can help I would be very grateful. Thank you, Jan.

St Marys Primary School Herschel st

High Street c1960
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I was a pupil here 1951 to 1959.Has anyone got any photos, info, shared memories?

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