Finchampstead
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Maidenhead Town Walk Guide
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Berkshire Pocket Album
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Newbury Living Memories
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Finchampstead Post Office
By the time I lived in Finchampstead in 1975 this was a private house but otherwise the street looked much the same. The Adnams family owned the garage a little further down this street on the left, opposite the playing fields.
Contributed by John Buck
Berkshire memories
Finchampstead Post Office
By the time I lived in Finchampstead in 1975 this was a private house but otherwise the street looked much the same. The Adnams family owned the garage a little further down this street on the left, opposite the playing fields.
A memory of Finchampstead contributed by John Buck
Home Farm Bearwood
It was the year President Kennedy was assassinated. My two sisters and I lived with my Grandparents, Bob and Katie Myram at Home Farm, Bearwood. My mum was ill in the U.S. and we stayed for the year with my grandparents. We attended Bearwood County Primary School and Mr. Sparrow was my beloved teacher! I have such happy, wonderful memories of that year, the Beatles, my friend, Marian Allen and a wonderful toy shop that I cant remember the name. My fondest memories are of that year. If anyone has anything to add to this, please do!!!! I'd love to hear from you!!!!
Krystyne Lewis (nee Christine Schupp)
A memory of Wokingham contributed by Krystyne Lewis
My great grandparents house
My great grandparents lived in one of the houses you can just see at the right hand side right at the end, they are lovely black and white houses and are still there, offices now I think.
A memory of Wokingham contributed by Nicky Lane
Extracts From Finchampstead & Berkshire books
The parish church of St James, Finchampstead was first recorded in the early 12th century. One of its later
additions was the brick tower in 1720. The church site may have been used at an earlier date and lies only a short distance from the line of The Devils Highway, a former Roman road.
An extract from from"Wokingham and Bracknell Photographic Memories".
Viewed across a new orchard is the mansion of Moore Close. The original house, built by Mr Hutchinson Brown,
was bought by Charles Birch Crisp who, in 1910, commissioned newly-qualified architect Oliver Hill to enlarge the
house and design the gardens. Newbold Missionary College moved to the site in February 1946.
An extract from from"Wokingham and Bracknell Photographic Memories".
From its depot in Reading, having stopped at Shinfield, Arborfield, Eversley and Yateley, a Thorneycroft J Type bus operated by the Thames Valley Traction Company has yet to make a pick up in Derby Green before continuing through Blackwater, to its destination in Camberley. It seems a fitting picture to conclude this selection of photographs and illustrate the pace of life in days gone by.
An extract from from"Wokingham and Bracknell Photographic Memories".
The Hope and Anchor, seen here on the right, has changed little in the present day, but now includes the small
gabled building on its left, which had been a blacksmiths for many years. Today the British Legion hall will be found
to the rear of the next building along, which in this photograph bears the name ‘Wokingham Ex-Servicemen’s Club’.
An extract from from"Wokingham and Bracknell Photographic Memories".
The 15th-century building in the foreground has had a variety of uses, including that of a public house named The
Cricketers which ran from the mid 19th century until its closure in 1909. This picture shows it as a fish and chip shop.
In recent years it has doubled as a tailor’s workroom with private accommodation above. The tall narrow building
immediately to the left was at one time home to James Seaward, who was reputedly the inspiration for the character of
Tom in Charles Kingsley’s book ‘The Water Babies’. Beyond is a fine run of 15th- and 16th-century buildings.
An extract from from"Wokingham and Bracknell Photographic Memories".