Twinches Lane

A Memory of Cippenham.

There was a Twinch, Henry I think, owner of Cippenham MANOR (not Court farm which was nearby) and this was his shortcut, originally. This pic is taken from the footbridge put up for the Girls High School to cross the road to get their buses. The school was sold in the 1960s for housing and retail park, I think Wickes are still there. The bridge was removed in the 1980s? Twinches Lane is on the left, the linked traffic lights part of the Slough Experiment 1953, to limit the traffic to 30mph. The land on the left (of course originally all farmland) was taken over by Nissen huts during the war, an AA battery protecting the trading estate? Squatted in after the war the people were gradually rehoused and the huts demolished. One of uncle Albert's (sorry about all these relatives!) first demolition jobs was to take the bases up, unaided we (bro Pete, Albert and me) broke them up with a sledge hammer, levering them up with a length of 2" shaft and "popping" the base with the sledge and loading onto our old ex naval ford V8 lorry. Another retail park was built here, now offices. Just beyond the tree on the left is the art deco Berlei factory.