The brick-built
Congregational
church on the corner
of Union Street and
King Street was
opened in 1912 and
still flourishes, now as
the United Reformed
Church.
Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell
became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the
development of market gardening and brick-making.
This bustling fifties shopping scene, with a substantial and surprising number of bicycles in evidence, shows the
prominent red-brick Post Office on the left standing out against its rather dingy neighbouring
This splendid red-brick
Tudor house was once
Chillington Manor, home of
the Wyatts; one of the
family, Sir Thomas the
younger, led the rebellion
against Queen Mary's
marriage to Philip of
The Italianate, red brick Market Hall with its imposing clock tower was built in 1857, and still forms the centrepiece of the town's lively regular outdoor market.
This is a Kentish white weatherboarded smock mill with a two-storey octagonal brick base, powered by four eliptic spring sails and winded by a fantail.
Essex lacks
natural rock so skills in the use of wood and brick-making
have been well developed over the centuries.Attractive wrought
iron fencing surrounds the long gardens on the right.
On the left
is the red brick and stone Lloyds
Bank building, with its fretted
skyline, while to the right is the
neo-classical Post Office, built
in 1881.
Pinza was ridden
by Gordon Richards, who had just been
awarded a knighthood in the coronation
honours, and whose long, record-breaking
career only lacked a victory in the Derby.
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