Hungerford, Bridge Street 1903
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Photo of Hungerford, Bridge Street 1903

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Two hundred and thirty-five years before this photograph was taken, Samuel Pepys visited the town and ate 'very good troutes, eels and crayfish' at the Bear Hotel. Twenty years later, in 1688, William of Orange accepted the throne of England here.

Memories of Hungerford, Bridge Street 1903

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We moved to Hungerford in 1987 just two months before Michael Ryan shot 14 people. See that white house way down on the left with one window in the top, well I lived in the house just after that. You can't see it very well but it is sited on one of the old mills and is called Mill Hatch. So called because the hatch where the water turned the wheel is still in the back garden. We had trout that lived in the ...see more