Woolhampton
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Woolhampton books (12 available)
Maidenhead Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Berkshire Pocket Album
Paperback
Newbury Living Memories
Paperback
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Our first visit 1961
As far as I was concerned, at the tender age of eleven, I belonged to a Norfolk family having only known Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, my birthplace. The untitled photograph of Hyde End House that hung in my grandfather's hall was an enigma and so intrigued my mother that she had to find out its relevence and where it was. After giving my grandfather a grilling, it transpired that this was our family's old ancestral home until 1917!! The quest was on to find out more and a visit was planned in the summer of 1961. Sadly by then we found it in a dilapidated state covered in ivy and overrun with chickens but we could see how grand it must have ...read more here
A memory of Brimpton contributed by alan hyde
The Stair Connection
One of my family lived in the post office, a Mr John Henry Stair, he lived there with his family and a Mrs Stair was the postmistress around that time.
John Henry died in April 1881.
A memory of Brimpton contributed by ron wheeler
I lived in No 68 from 1983 to 1985
Of course they had been nicely re-furbished and with all mod cons like running water and electricity. It was a nice experience living in a thatched house and, believe me, they aren't full of spiders and not as much of a fire risk as you would think. We had a very big fireplace in a tiny sitting room and I am a pyromaniac. I remember one day a guy knocking on the front door and, with a very worried look on his face, he said that the chimney must be on fire because it was pouring black smoke. I thanked him kindly but told him not to worry and that I was simply burning rubber car mats!
A memory of Thatcham contributed by Donald Macdonald
I live here
I've lived in the two cottages on the right of the picture since 1994. Two cottages? They were knocked into one in 1973 when the entire row was sold to a developer and refurbished.
A memory of Thatcham contributed by Gillian Lucraft
Extracts From Woolhampton & Berkshire books
The Newspaper Shop, on
the left, is now
Woolhampton Stores and
Newsagents, and the Angel
Inn next door looks very
different today, almost
completely covered by ivy.
There has been a pub on
this site since 1752. The Old
Bakery adjacent to it is now
a private house.
An extract from from"Newbury Living Memories".
St Peter’s Church was
completely Gothicised in
the mid 19th century. The
roof and main walls of the
old church were retained
and the walls encased in
flint. The old bell tower was
also transformed into an
attractive shingled spire.
The village school can be
seen next door, though the
trees partly screening it
have gone.
An extract from from"Newbury Living Memories".
These cottages have hardly
changed at all in the last four
decades. The patch of grass
at the front has gone.
Opposite the cottages stands
Douai Abbey. The
community at the Abbey has
spanned more than three
and a half centuries. In 1903
the monks left their
monastery in France and
crossed the channel to
Berkshire. They took over the
existing St Mary’s College,
transforming it into a leading
Roman Catholic public
school for boys, which
eventually closed in 1999.
An extract from from"Newbury Living Memories".
Much of the foliage has
disappeared since this
picture was taken. Today,
walkers and fishermen can
be seen at intervals along
the canal, as well as
colourful boating activity.
The towpath extends
between Reading and Bath
and is an obvious choice for
anyone wanting to
undertake an undemanding
walking holiday.
Woolhampton is one of
many pretty villages found
along this historic waterway.
An extract from from"Newbury Living Memories".
Work on this magnificent church began in 1928 and the east end was completed in 1933. However, it was the summer of
1993 before the church was finally completed, dedicated and opened. Inside are several striking memorials; one is to pupils
of the former public school next door who were killed in the World Wars, while another commemorates all those who
contributed to the building of the new church.
An extract from from"Newbury Living Memories".