Maidenhead
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- 113 photos on Maidenhead appear in 9 Frith books - View photos of Maidenhead
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Happy Memories
My mum Lois and I used to catch the blue bus from Dorney Reach and we would go to Maidenhead to visit the doctor or the dentist and then pop into the library where I would always pick a library book about animals.
Contributed by Monica Peck
Decanter Set
I own a four decanter set, enclosed in a 10.5 " high by 8" square box, of Amboyna wood, with brass handles and edging, possibly Georgian. Also, held by a brass clip in the top of box, is a 3.5 " glass with the name "Skindles" above a large "S" with a line drawn diagonally through it. Thanks to the internet, and your web-site, I now know, at least, where the glass came from.
I have bought many of your photos over the years, thank you for the pleasure they have given me, and my friends.
Contributed by Albert Mills
Watching the boats in the lock
Summer Sunday afternoons were often spent at Boulters Lock when I was a child. We would have a walk along the river and end up at the lock to sit and watch the boats go in and out.
There would be the people who thought they were the bee's knees in their blazers and straw boaters but who usually managed to make a mess of getting in and out of the lock. And the dogs that would jump off the boats into the lock causing pandemonium, fortunately they all seemed to get rescued OK either by their owners or by someone from the crowd that was always there sitting on the side of the lock.
Contributed by Linda Ellis
Berkshire memories
Decanter Set
I own a four decanter set, enclosed in a 10.5 " high by 8" square box, of Amboyna wood, with brass handles and edging, possibly Georgian. Also, held by a brass clip in the top of box, is a 3.5 " glass with the name "Skindles" above a large "S" with a line drawn diagonally through it. Thanks to the internet, and your web-site, I now know, at least, where the glass came from.
I have bought many of your photos over the years, thank you for the pleasure they have given me, and my friends.
A memory of Maidenhead contributed by Albert Mills
Extracts From Maidenhead & Berkshire books
Poor old Maidenhead: a rather good Georgian coaching town on the old London to Bath road, it was overlaid by Victorian development after the railway arrived in 1841, and has really suffered from ring road and redevelopment mania in the 1960s. Here, looking towards the town centre, very little survives. The pub on the right, now Anthonia’s Bistro, is one of few surviving reference points.
An extract from from"Down the Thames Photographic Memories".
We have moved further west to the junction with St Ives Road,
looking east. The Bear Hotel on the left has an early 19th-century
stucco front; further on are the Chapel Arches. The building on the
left with the urns along its parapet (which do not survive) is part of
High Street Colonnade, a 1930 development in Adam style built along
the north side of the Chapel Arches bridge.
An extract from from"Maidenhead Photographic Memories".
How quiet Maidenhead High Street seems in this photograph, as the age of the motor car was just dawning. In later
years the town became heavily congested with traffic when the Bath Road ran through here.
An extract from from"Berkshire Photographic Memories".
Designed by Sir Robert Taylor, Maidenhead Bridge was rebuilt in 1777. At the height of the coaching era, up to five
hundred horses crossed the bridge daily.
An extract from from"Berkshire Photographic Memories".
This view looks downstream from the footbridge onto Ray Mill Island.
A smart houseboat is towed out by a steam launch; relatively few
boats are out. Later views illustrate the great boating craze of the
1880s which ran right up until World War I. On Ascot Sunday, 1888,
over 800 boats and 72 steam launches passed through the lock in
one day, and traffic only increased over the years.
An extract from from"Maidenhead Photographic Memories".