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Lambourn books (12 available)
Maidenhead Town Walk Guide
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Berkshire Pocket Album
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Newbury Living Memories
Paperback
Lambourn memories
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Roxtons doorway
We lived for 9 years a few doors behind where the photographer is standing. The shop with the awning on the right was Roxtons, a very trendy 'hunting shooting and fishing' shop where you had to be landed gentry to get in the door. If you were to watch from our upstairs window shortly after closing time, every night, the same guy would stagger up the road and have a pee in Roxtons doorway. With his heavy beard, and the same annorak worn every night in every weather, it was a most disturbing spectacle! I wonder how the paintwork is standing up?
A memory of Hungerford contributed by Donald Macdonald
Best place to live
We moved to Hungerford in 1987 just two months before Michael Ryan shot 14 people. See that white house way down on the left with one window in the top, well I lived in the house just after that. You can't see it very well but it is sited on one of the old mills and is called Mill Hatch. So called because the hatch where the water turned the wheel is still in the back garden. We had trout that lived in the garden and I would fish for them with string and bread but no hooks. They took the bait immediately and I would be able to lift them out of the water before they slipped off the string ...read more here
A memory of Hungerford contributed by Donald Macdonald
Allen family at Stockcross
What did they put in the water at Stockcross? I am just wondering as my great-grandad George Allen was born at Stockcross in 1831. He was a gardener but astonishingly he married three times and even more amazing he celebrated his golden wedding with his third wife. The family story is that he didn't like children yet he fathered an awful lot! This has been told to me by my aunt Doris Lacey who remembers her own childhood in the First World War and being rather frightened of George. He must have been tough to have worked as a gardener, became a widower twice, married three times, fathered three families and lived to the grand age of 94 !! ...read more here
A memory of Stockcross contributed by John Howard Norfolk
My dad the police officer
I was born in the 1980s and my father was Alan Prior. He used to work with Jim(or James ) Heath. We lived in the 'police' house with my mother Dawn. I remember being snowed in at one point and a lovely lady in the village let a whole coach full of us (we were supposed to go to school) invade her house and gave us cups of tea. I also remember my mum used to be a horse judge, I think, and we used to go to the stables a lot, and my mother ran the village shop at one point. My dad also was very close to the late 'Mr Chips' who also lived in the village, I cannot ...read more here
A memory of East Ilsley contributed by claire louise prior
Extracts From Lambourn & Berkshire books
This general view of
Northbrook Street shows
the gable end to the left
of a shop front, above
which is a clock. This is all
that remains of cloth-
maker John Winchcombe’s
house. On the left is
Richard Shops and to the
left of it is an advert for
Rentaset – 9 shillings
weekly for a 19-inch television.
An extract from from"Newbury Living Memories".
One of the striking
features of this
photograph is that
many of the shops
have awnings to keep
their wares cool and
shaded in summer – a
rare sight today.
Though rather
cluttered, this
photograph of the
street does allow you a
distant glimpse of the
clock tower at the far end.
An extract from from"Newbury Living Memories".
The view from this bridge
has changed significantly in
the last 50 years. Much of the
greenery has gone and the
scene on the right is
dominated by Camp
Hopson’s furniture store as
well as several other modern
buildings. The canal is in
constant use today so the
towpath to the right of it is
broad and clear. The tower of
the old Town Hall can still be seen.
An extract from from"Newbury Living Memories".
Victoria Park lies to the east of Newbury town centre and covers an area of seventeen acres. The park includes a statue of
Queen Victoria (see photograph N61083, above), guarded by two terracotta lions, which originally stood in the Market Place.
An extract from from"Newbury Living Memories".
This familiar parade of shops
on the A4 was quite new
when this photograph was
taken. The scene is much
busier today, with much
more traffic and many more
pedestrians. A set of lights
enables people to cross the
road in safety between the
Health Centre and the
chemist, second shop from
the end on the left of the picture.
An extract from from"Newbury Living Memories".