Nostalgic memories of Sunninghill's local history

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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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England Assignment

I worked for Boeing and spent from 1979-1981 living in Camberley, but our office was just around the corner in 21 Kingswick House. A trip to the Three Jays for lunch (Ploughman's lunch or Shepherd's pie) was a regular stop

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Added 10 November 2022

Highclere Self Build

In 1960, Mick Turner and 8 other tradesmen purchased land behind the Sunninghill Post Office, called HighClere, where they drained the lake and built 9 bungalows. It took 3 years working every spare hour outside of their daytime jobs to complete the build. I was 11 when ours was completed and I moved into Highclere. For 3 years every day after school, I delivered Pharmaceuticals for Blackburn’s chemist to ...see more

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Added 28 January 2021

Little Paddocks

I went to a dreadful boarding school in Sunninghill from 1958 until 1962 for visually impaired girls. A lot of cruelty went on there. It’s now The Royal Berkshire Hotel. We only went out for crocodile walks and church. The school closed in 1970 and the children were evacuated there from Brighton in 1942.

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Added 29 July 2019

Not Just

...but the main road - London Road, I believe it's called - that runs through Ascot, down Wells Hill and to the roundabout just to the church end of Sunninghill village before going on through Virginia Water. The bridge was demolished many years ago but the footings can still be seen in the steep bank alongside the road. The bridge was almost in the same place as the 'new' roundabout.

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Added 14 May 2013

Memories Of Sunning Hill

My Memories of Sunninghill are somewhat obscure and and are based on information gathered over the past 70 years. I was Born at 8, The Terrace, Sunning Hill and spent my first 4 years living there. My mother married a Canadian, Robert James Cummings Lennox and resided there until one day the Military Police came and removed him from the air raid shelter, as he had become AWOL. I was then taken to a ...see more

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Added 26 November 2012

The Good Life

I was born in 1926 at no 2 The Terrace. My dad was Taity Ponsford and I had 5 brothers and 2 sisters my sister Ida and Cis, who was killed in a motor cycle accident in 1933, at the time she was with Bill Murrant a local golf pro. My gran also lived on The Terrace, her husband was Shovel Stevens which I don't understand as my mother's maiden name was Platt. I moved away when I was 5 as Mum ran off with the lodger, ...see more

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Added 24 November 2011

Forgotten Children

My mother (Doris Daye) was married to a Canadian, Robert Lennox, at this church in January 1941. I was born in July. We lived at 8 The Terrace, Sunning Hill. Aparently he was AWOL and was sent back to Canada some 4 years later, but my mother stayed around. I was fostered into a family in Bracknell, never to see my mother again until 6 years ago, she is now 92 and living with my half sister. My mother had a ...see more

Sunninghill, Church of St Michael and All Angels 1901

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Added 30 April 2011

My Memories Of The Three Jays.

I lived in Oriental Road which is the road that runs down the side of the pub since I was born in 1977. I met my husband in the pub in 1998, he lived in a house opposite the Three Jays which I moved into and it became our family home. Unfortunately a fire in c1999 meant that it was demolished and in its place we now have 12 two bedroomed apartments.