Thebrick-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 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
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
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.
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