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Hedsor Park And The Origins of The British Computing Industry
By the late 1960's ICL had absorbed much of the country's computer industry and had several manufacturing centres at Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and Letchworth. It needed a base for running training courses nearer to its research and development centres around Berkshire - what was to be known later as the UK's "silicon valley".
The site it acquired in 1969 was Hedsor Park, a superb Palladian house set in more than 80 acres of grounds. I was fortunate to be seconded here by my employers at the time to attend a computer programming course. Looking back now I realise that the computer facilities were painfully slow but at the time of my training in October 1970 this was the very latest in white hot technology! The slow processors of their main frame computers could not compete with a palm top computer in 2012!
My enduring memory of the beautiful Hedsor House is the wonderful grounds containing a pitch and put golf course, a long tree lined... Read more
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My Grandad's House
My grandparents lived in the cottage on the right of the photo. I was evacuated there at the begining of the Second World War. It was then called Rose Cottage. My father was also born in Wooburn Green. I can also remember my grandfather living next to the Red Lion pub.
Our First Home
My husband and I have many fond memories of Wooburn Green. We bought our first home, Millstream House, on Glory Mill Lane, right opposite the Wiggins Teape paper mill. Our first child, Clare, was also born in Buckinghamshire at Burnham Beeches. We only stayed 2 years but got to know our neighbour, Lucy, really well. She used to tell us all about her working days at the mill. I enjoyed exploring the area and pushing Clare around in her pram.
We left Wooburn Green in 1975 and have lived in the United States ever since, first in Cleveland, Ohio, and now in Lexington, Kentucky.
Two of my Uncles Memorailzed on Obelisk at Wooburn Green
My grandfather was GM of Glory Mill in the early 1900s. My father and his siblings were raised in a house located on the grounds. There were four brothers and all served in the British Army in WWI. The oldest (called Harry) died in 1917 near Theassalonica and is buried there. Joe was the next to youngest brother. (My father was the youngest.) He died at the battle of the Somme in 1916. No remains were found.
My wife and I visited Wooburn Green some years ago and and went to the local pub for lunch. We talked with the owner who knew the Personnel Manager of the company. She dug out pay records of 1905 that had my grandfather's pay of five pounds for that week. By that time all the customers of the pub were gathered round and all agreed that was good pay in those days.
My father visited the States after the war to learn what the US was doing in paper making. He... Read more
The Pheasant
Does anyone have any info about this pub? It appears in my family tree, and my family were living in it in 1911, they are shown on the census for that year, but I can't find any contemporary reference to it. Any info or old photos would be welcome.
Upper Bourne End
My brothers and I returned to Bourne End at the end of the war. We had been evacuated to Nottingham. We lived in a small house called "The Nest". It was the last house on the road. Lunnon's Farm backed on to all the houses and a cherry tree was just outside our back garden. On a Sunday we used to go to get Stones Ginger Beer as a treat after lunch.
Mr Taylor who lived a little way down the road, had the forge, and I loved watching him shoe the horses and see the flames belching from the fire.
We used to walk to the school in Bourne End.
Although our house was small, my mother let a Mrs Wackett and her son Terry come and stay with use as they had been bombed during the war.
My Father was a POW in Changi. He died in 1944
I remember there... Read more
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