Hungerford
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Hungerford books (10 available)
- 4 photos on Hungerford appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Hungerford
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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
Contributed by Donald Macdonald
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?
Contributed by Donald Macdonald
Berkshire memories
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
Extracts From Hungerford & Berkshire books
Famous for its many antique shops, which line
the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a
fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by
John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who
granted fishing rights to the townsfolk. The
Kennet, running through Hungerford, was
once described as ‘a fayre river which yieldeth
store of fishes and especiallie trowtes’.
An extract from from"Berkshire Photographic Memories".
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.
An extract from from"Berkshire Pocket Album".
Famous for its many antique shops, which line
the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a
fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by
John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who
granted fishing rights to the townsfolk. The
Kennet, running through Hungerford, was
once described as ‘a fayre river which yieldeth
store of fishes and especiallie trowtes’.
An extract from from"Berkshire Photographic Memories".
Some of the original buildings in Hungerford High Street were destroyed by several fires. Wide streets are typical
of country towns, designed so that markets could be held without blocking the main thoroughfare.
An extract from from"Berkshire Photographic Memories".
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.
An extract from from"Berkshire Pocket Album".