Sunninghill, The Cedars 1934
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A Selection of Memories from Sunninghill

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Sunninghill

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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
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
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.
...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.