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WW2 Garth: Wokingham's Destroyer
Jim Bell provides us with a fascinating insight into Wokingham's contribution to World War Two. Here we learn of how… Read more…
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Incredible website to incredible maps!
Arborfield historian Steve Bacon, sent a link to an incredible website which overlays old maps onto new ones ! The… Read more…
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Wokingham Families: The Purseys, Brants, Rances and Alexanders
Wokingham Families and the Great War. Recalling the 1914-18 war often involves descriptions of military strategy and the bewildering numbers… Read more…
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Remembrance Day – The Incredible Story
Written by Mike Churcher As we stand for the first of the two minute's silence at 11 am, we try… Read more…
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Members of the tragic Hills Nicholson family to visit Wokingham
USA born Victor Nicholson is the grandson of Lt Colonel E Hills Nicholson and will be visiting Wokingham in March… Read more…
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Wokingham's news from The Mercury 1913-1923
Jim Bell continues his journey to provide us with an overview of Wokingham during the 19th and 20th centuries. This… Read more…
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1915. Wokingham's heroes from The Great War
In this article we will take you back one hundred years to early 1915, a time when the first cinema… Read more…
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1830 – Wokingham fights back against arson attacks
By Jim Bell (this article first appeared in the Wokingham Paper 24th April 2015) When I first started to research… Read more…
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River Loddon – once a navigable waterway
The area surrounding Wokingham is usually considered to have been a secluded region until the development of the road and… Read more…
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Cecil Culver's Wokingham. One: The early years
Jim Bell continues with the magnificent series of recollections by Cecil Culver, one of the great cornerstones of Wokingham's 20th… Read more…
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The following WW1 names appear on the memorial inside Wokingham Town Hall. Click on a name to discover their biography:
Isaac Lamb : William James Lamb : Albert Victor Lammas : Albert Edward Langley : Frank Langley : William A Langley : William S Lawrence : Ernest W Lewer : John Life : Albert Victor Loader : Samuel Holt Lomax : Albert Lovejoy : Henry Lovick : Sidney Luker : George Lush