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Maidenhead maps
Historic maps of Maidenhead and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Maidenhead maps
Historic map of Maidenhead
Illustrated Victorian map of Berkshire
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Maidenhead books
Displaying 3 of 8 books about Maidenhead and the local area. View all Maidenhead books
Thames Valley County Memories
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Berkshire Churches Photographic Memories
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Berkshire Photographic Memories
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14 Maidenhead photos appear in 4 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Maidenhead
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My mum Lois and I used to catch the blue bus from Dorney Reach and we would go to Maidenhead to visit the doctor or the dentist and then pop into the library where I would always pick a library book about animals.
Shared on 04 June 2007
I own a four decanter set, enclosed in a 10.5 " high by 8" square box, of Amboyna wood, with brass handles and edging, possibly Georgian. Also, held by a brass clip in the top of box, is a 3.5 " glass with the name "Skindles" above a large "S" with a line drawn diagonally through it. Thanks to... [more]
Shared on 14 March 2008
Watching the boats in the lock
Summer Sunday afternoons were often spent at Boulters Lock when I was a child. We would have a walk along the river and end up at the lock to sit and watch the boats go in and out.
There would be the people who thought they were the bee's knees in their blazers and straw boaters but who usually... [more]
Shared on 10 February 2007
Berkshire memories
My friend Jean and I lived at Dorney Reach and we used to go for walks by the river Thames with my dog. On Sunday afternoons we would then cross over the walkway which was on top of the lock gates and buy ice-creams from the
lock-keepers shop. You could hear the roar from the weir. The children from... [more]
Shared on 16 April 2007
I was born in Cookham in 1952. I attended Holy Trinity Primary School and sang in the church choir. One Remembrance Sunday I was given the honour of carrying the cross at the head of the procession from the church to the war memorial. I was extremely lucky to spend my childhood in such idyllic surroundings. My brothers and I, along... [more]
Shared on 20 June 2009
When I worked for Samuel Jones the boys in our office played cricket against a team in Cookham Dean and we girls went along as support. What a great place this is! I remember a lovely village in lovely countryside - must be a nice place to live. I didn't realise at that time the connection with Wind in the Willows... [more]
Shared on 31 May 2007
My paternal grandmother, Kate Paine Whitbourn, was born in these cottages in 1896. Her father was the head carpenter at Bisham Abbey. The Paine family had lived in Bisham for several generations. When I was little, Gran and I would visit the kirk and 'water' her grandad. He was a great cricketer. We would stop at the monument, the war memorial,... [more]
Shared on 15 April 2007
My parents met in Hurley at the church; my father lived at Rosehill which was a large estate nearby where his father was Head Gardener. My mother was nanny to the children of the Rector of Hurley, and had travelled to various places around the country looking after their children. She was very fond of the Rector and... [more]
Shared on 26 July 2009
Extracts From Maidenhead & Berkshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Maidenhead, inspired by Frith photos.
Down the Thames Photographic Memories
Poor old Maidenhead: a rather good Georgian coaching town on the old London to Bath road, it was overlaid by Victorian development after the railway arrived in 1841, and has really suffered from ring road and redevelopment mania in the 1960s. Here, looking towards the town centre, very little survives. The pub on the right, now Anthonia's Bistro, is one of... [more]
This is an extract from Down the Thames Photographic Memories.
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Maidenhead Photographic Memories
We have moved further west to the junction with St Ives Road, looking east. The Bear Hotel on the left has an early 19th-century stucco front; further on are the Chapel Arches. The building on the left with the urns along its parapet (which do not survive) is part of High Street Colonnade, a 1930 development in Adam style built along the north side of the... [more]
This is an extract from Maidenhead Photographic Memories.
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Berkshire Photographic Memories
How quiet Maidenhead High Street seems in this photograph, as the age of the motor car was just dawning. In later years the town became heavily congested with traffic when the Bath Road ran through here.
This is an extract from Berkshire Photographic Memories.
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