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cab rank, wheel stop
I always understood that these were wheel stops to prevent the carriages rolling back down the hill and were not to tie the horse to.
A memory of Windsor contributed by First Name Last Name
The Good Days
My Mother owned the Kings Head and i worked in the reastaurant with her she done all home baking and had Eton College lads and there familys eating there,also a great trade was the Army lads from both barracks,I married one in 1956,we are retired to somerset but my heart will always be in Windsor,we served teas to the queues of people visiting our late Kings floral tributes,my late father was a porter at the castle for awhile,all my four daughters were born in Windsor and i had many friends who still live there,The kings Head has changed so much like the many public houses have,the pub at the end of church street was called The Ship pity they couldnt leave ...read more here
A memory of Windsor contributed by dorothy Wade
Ye Olde Kings Head
My Nan, Esa Victoria Manning owned the Kings Head and lived there with her family. She was a great cook.
A memory of Windsor contributed by Deborah Jones
Winter Sundays
1964-1967 There was a time when nearly every Winter Sunday was spent walking from the Egham side, through the Beechwoods then up the Long Walk to Windsor for an early cream tea, then back through all the leaves and cob nuts to the small pub somewhere on the Egham gate side.
You had to hurry at times as there were sunset closing times on some gates. Not the Pub one though!
There truly were beech copses which had cobnuts, Oak, Elm and Plane leaves shin deep, with swirling smoke from Park keeper's cottage chimneys.
We walked miles and miles for fun and because it meant being together but 'behaving' :-)
A visit in ...read more here
A memory of Windsor contributed by Olivia R-S
Extracts From Eton & Berkshire books
As might be expected of the world’s most famous English public school, Eton College chapels have a host of stories
to tell about their early days. Lower Chapel, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, was built in 1889-92. Queen Victoria
and her daughters, Empress Frederick and Princess Beatrice, visited the new chapel on March 19, 1891, when the
Empress unveiled a statue of the Queen over the gateway into the Quadrangle. Built of Sutton and Weldon stone
from designs by Sir Arthur Blomfield, it is similar in some ways to the College chapel: Perpendicular in style,
divided by large buttresses but without aisles. Three additional bays at the west end designed by Charles Blomfield
were completed in 1926 to give seating for more than 500 boys. The roof is chestnut wood, and on the shields
between the ribs are carved emblems of the Passion. At the west end there are dedications to a Head Master, Lower
Master and assistant master dated around 1889. Much of the furniture and fixtures in the chapel were donated by
Old Etonians and others connected with the school - organ, lectern, reredos, silver cross and candlesticks on the
altar, frontal and superfrontal and processional cross. Brother, sisters and friends of Tom Cottingham Edwards-
Moss put four stained glass windows in the chapel in 1895 ‘to preserve the memory of an Etonian so deeply
mourned’. He died at the age of 31 after becoming MP for Widnes. The windows in the nave are by Kempe, and
each depicts a virtue: on each are saints or men whose lives were examples of virtue, with scenes from the lives of
these men. The detail is well worth further investigation. The tracery of the ten windows is perpendicular. That of
the Chancel windows is decorated, given in memory of Mr Edwards-Moss, two representing the Annunciation and
the shepherds of Bethlehem, one of whom is playing bagpipes. The sheaf in the window is the badge of Kempe.
The tapestries - part of a memorial to those killed in the First World War - were designed by Lady Chilston and
woven at the Morris works at Merton Abbey. The ‘Eton Guide’ describes the tapestries as a remarkable
combination of the styles of the mid 16th century Brussels looms with English romantic detail, and quite
untouched by developments in contemporary art; they form one of the latest examples of the power of the
chivalric image in the 19th century public schools, showing the life of St George as typifying fallen Etonians.
An extract from from"Berkshire Churches Photographic Memories".
At the junction of Common
Road and Slough Road, two
College schoolboys, one
carrying a cricket bat over
his right shoulder, are seen
walking past the ‘Burning
Bush’. They may be going to
the famous Playing Fields of
Eton. A horse and carriage
approach from the direction
of the High Street.
An extract from from"Windsor Photographic Memories".
Our cameraman was standing quite close to the excitement of this riverside party, organised by Eton College. This celebration marks the monarch’s official birthday, and has been held for centuries. The top hats sported by the boys can still be seen, even if they are no longer generally worn for the rest of the year.
An extract from from"Canals and Waterways".
Back at the river, this view shows the crowds watching the Procession of College Boats, held every year on 4 June to commemorate George III’s birthday. The king took a keen interest in the College, and often crossed the bridge to talk to scholars. The Etonians and their guests here throng the Eton bank: toppers, Eton collars and ladies’ floral hats aplenty.
An extract from from"Down the Thames Photographic Memories".
Our cameraman was standing quite close to the place where photograph 35371 was taken as he captured the excitement of this riverside party, organised by Eton College. This celebration marks the monarch’s official birthday, and has been held for centuries. The top hats sported by the boys can still be seen, even if they are no longer generally worn for the rest of the year.
An extract from from"Canals and Waterways".