Wokingham, Market Square 1906
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57025A
Photo ref:
57025A
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Wokingham's triangular market place is the town's focal point; it is dominated by its red brick Victorian town hall, which is triangular in shape and replaces a 17th-century timber-framed building.
An extract from Berkshire Photographic Memories.
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I also remember Martins swimming pool, it was freezing! I did receive my certificate for swimming a width at Martins. Mr. Pidgeon used to take us, he was a good teacher. Mr. Davis was quite scary, especially the puppets!
When I lived in Wokingham in the 1950s, I remember a double fronted cycle shop on Denmark Street (next door to the entrance to some sort of meeting hall?) - you can just see part of the hanging sign for the shop in picture number W123016. To me then the shop seemed quite large and was certainly stuffed full of bikes and accessories that I coveted. I can still remember the wood flooring and smell of ...see more
my late father was a driver with green line buses in romford, and the greenline families association would send their children to california in england as we knew it for day trips on the railway that ran through the woods ,as well as the large vessel on the lake that took us round what to us then seemed a huge lake , as well as the amusements , i didn't know about it's demise , but i am pleased to see that in name it still survives
I went to Wescott Road school in 1950 then St Crispins 1956. I can recall quite a few shops. Herrings furniture where you could buy on HP with no checks, as Mr Herring assessed whether or not you looked trustworthy. NSS newsagents. Next door was a chemist who washed my eye out after getting grime in it from a passing steam train when I lived in Waterloo road. Baxters butchers. Cliffords dairies. Somerscales fish and chips ...see more
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