Nostalgic memories of Cippenham's local history

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I recall classes being abandoned in the afternoons when I first attended Cippenham J.S. (Mrs Jones class?) due to the practice by the RAF flypast culminating at Farnborough for Q.E.II. A huge display of aeroplanes ancient and modern culminating with the delta winded bomber, now known as the Avro Vulcan A wonderful memory of bright summer afternoons
i lived at 13ward gardens just by the village green.spent my youth there until moving to new zealand when i was 25,spent many a day fishing for sticklebacks in the stream by the pond back in 1964,as i got older spent many an hour in the 3 pubs by the pond,was just looking up my old school in burnham lane [Haymill] tosee that it as been redeveloped,Have great memouries of my youth there.
Dolly's (Essoldo Cinema) in distance
Thats Everitts Corner in front, Co-op store on left (mum got a weekly order from here, I had to taste everything, washing soda tastes horrible!), Langleys toy store on right, also chip shop and barbers
From footbridge used by girls going to High School, looking towards Three Tuns & Slough, later unsafe and demolished?
Surely this is Aspro's bowling green? along Bath Rd., houses must be Westgate Cres or Ivy Cres. Pals dad was gardener to Aspros. was it built beside Aspros cricket pitch?
off Bower Way (handy for me!) Think my wife lived down here for a while, she was nanny to 2 kids whose parents worked at US base at Ruislip moved to Denham before we married
Started out as isolation hospital for scarlet fever(?) Used as nurses hostel for nurses from Cliveden, they were taken by coach, was at the back of site, backed onto Aspros( later Sara Lee?) factory, they built Westgate School on e side Pic is taken from gravel pit, we used to spy on nurses, hoping to see them undressing! Typical small rooms with French windows like TB hospital. it could also be reached by steps from pit, boilerman used to throw ash down into pit!
In 2000 a friend of mine who is a builder was extending his house and erecting a new double garage at his house in Lower Cippenham Lane, I was there to do the brickwork. Chatting away he told me that when he was digging the trenches for the footings he came across a metal object dug it out and thought it looked like a bomb, he said he leant it against a wall and thought no more about it until his small daughter ...see more
Now living across the other side of the world, I recently surveyed my old haunts on Google Maps and it's so good to know that the old Swan is still standing - and looking better than ever, in fact. Much tidied-up, but still outwardly almost unchanged. Presumably now two decent sized houses? Hopefully not flats. My wife and I worked for nearly two years as part time bar staff in the ...see more