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 Ascot, High Street 1906 (ref. 55013) | Ascot, close to the Surrey border and situated in a wooded corner of the county that was once part of the ancient Windsor Forest, has a strong suburban feel to it, with an abundance of Edwardian villas and shop fronts. |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Binfield, The Stag 1892 (ref. B97301) | When this photograph was taken, Binfield was no more than a sleepy village. The Stag Inn dates back to the 18th century, and the elm tree on the right reputedly marked the centre of Windsor Forest. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bracknell, High Street 1901 (ref. 46893) | When this photograph was taken, Binfield was no more than a sleepy village. The Stag Inn dates back to the 18th century, and the elm tree on the right reputedly marked the centre of Windsor Forest. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bracknell, Church Road 1901 (ref. 46897) | With New Town status and under the aegis of the Development Corporation, Bracknell began to expand rapidly. The town's first factory was in production by 1952; by the time this photograph was taken, the population had quadrupuled. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bracknell, High Street 1961 (ref. B172059) | With New Town status and under the aegis of the Development Corporation, Bracknell began to expand rapidly. The town's first factory was in production by 1952; by the time this photograph was taken, the population had quadrupulated. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bracknell, High Street 1901 (ref. 46894) | Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bracknell, High Street 1901 (ref. 46895) | Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bray, Landing Place 1890 (ref. 23621) | Four years after this photograph was taken, the Thames burst its banks and floodwater raged through Bray. According to local sources, a fish was even caught in the high street. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bray, Village 1911 (ref. 63821) | This photograph of Bray shows the village centre, with the perpendicular chalk and stone tower of the parish church of St Michael peeping above the rooftops. The church dates from the time of Edward I and is built on the site of the original Norman church. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Caversham, Bridge 1904 (ref. 52027) | St Peter's Hill climbs out of the village towards Caversham's striking parish church of St Peter, which occupies a pleasant setting above the Thames. The tower can be seen from the river, peeping through the trees. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Caversham, St Peter's Hill 1908 (ref. 59971) | St Peter's Hill climbs out of the village towards Caversham's striking parish church of St Peter, which occupies a pleasant setting above the Thames. The tower can be seen from the river, peeping through the trees. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Caversham, Bridge Street 1908 (ref. 59962) | This photograph shows Bridge Street in the centre of Caversham, at the point where it crosses the Thames. The village became part of Berkshire in 1911, having previously been in neighbouring Oxfordshire. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Caversham, from Caversham Heights 1908 (ref. 59960) | Caversham Heights lies to the north of the Thames and began to expand up the valley slopes when Caversham became a fashionable suburb of Reading. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cookham, High Street 1908 (ref. 61017) | The controversial artist Stanley Spencer was born in Cookham in 1891, seventeen years before this photograph was taken. The former Methodist chapel is now a gallery devoted to his work. Spencer used Cookham as the background to many of his paintings. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cookham, High Street 1914 (ref. 67016) | This photograph shows the 17th-century Kings Arms Hotel, originally the Kings Head. A local woman once had her own special coinage for use only in the village, and a framed specimen of a half token still survives today. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cookham, Odney Common 1925 (ref. 77588) | The Thames at Cookham used to have specifically-designed woven baskets for catching eels, which were set up at various points along the river. This view of the Thames illustrates Cookham's potential for picnicking and relaxing by the water's edge. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cookham, 1914 (ref. 67009) | In the early years of this century the village included an apothecary, a butcher's shop with traditional glazed tiles, a forge, dairy, a shoe-maker and an undertaker's. Everything the residents needed could be acquired locally. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Crowthorne, High Street 1925 (ref. 78035) | This part of east Berkshire consists almost entirely of 19th-century development; here and there are a few large Victorian houses with huge plate-glass windows and free Renaissance decorations. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Hampstead Norreys, Church Street c1950 (ref. H149011) | To the north of Newbury, on the edge of the downs, lies Hampstead Norris, surrounded by hills and woodland. The church has an impressive flint tower, Norman doorways and a splendid Jacobean roof to the nave. The River Pang cuts through the village, as does the line of the former Didcot to Southampton railway, which closed in 1964. Cattle are on the move through the village. During the Second World War, Folly Hill, which lies just outside the village, was the site of an airfield, with Wellington bombers based here. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Hungerford, High Street 1903 (ref. 49384) | Two hundred and thirty-five years before this photograph was taken, Samuel Pepys visited the town and ate 'very good troutes, eels and crayfish' at the Bear Hotel. Twenty years later, in 1688, William of Orange accepted the throne of England here. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
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