Eton, The College Chapel From Barnes Pool Bridge 1914
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The roof of Eton College Chapel, visible in this photograph, is a familiar sight in Eton. With the exception of the chapel, all the college buildings are built of brick - nearly two and a half million of them.
An extract from Berkshire Photographic Memories.
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Immediately on the right here was Eton College's Rectors House (?), mum's mum was cook, she was a WWI widow with 5 kids and walked daily from a railway slum in Stoke Gardens Slough. When mum left school in the 30's at 14 and was too young for work the rector's wife said to gran to bring the girls along (Nell, mums older sister), mum was "tweeny" (in-between stairs maid) and hated it. Rector took them all on a ...see more
Dad always called this the burning bush, I assume it was the first public lighting they'd seen.
My Great-Great-Grandfather William John Herbert established the Herbert's Supply Stores seen to the right of this photograph. The stores were made of twenty four departments and held the Royal Warrant for Queen Victoria, the Empresses of Russia and Germany, and many minor royals from across Europe. Following a fire in 1896 the building was rebuilt as seen here. The business became Cullum's Garages during the mid 1920's.
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