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Welcome to Wokingham's Halloween !
Aside from the plastic pumpkins, fancy dress witches, sweets and latent threats which accompany the Trick or Treater, there lies… Read more…
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1914 – The 9th Lancers and Europe’s last charge.
Frederick Allfrey at the age of 22 was a Lieutenent in the 9th Lancers and killed in the minutes following… 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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We continue the conversation between Ken Goatley and his old friend Cecil Culver. Ken: "You were talking about the milkman… Read more…
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Visit to Dachau – Summer 2013.
Here are some notes from a family visit to Dachau in the summer of 2013. It was part of a… Read more…
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Winnie the Pooh and The Great War
Written by Mike. I'm not sure why we did it, but in 2003 my wife and I drove across Canada… Read more…
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An introduction to visiting the battlefields of the Great War.
Sarah starts this series of articles of her family's experiences on visiting the battlefields of the First World War. During… Read more…
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Great Britain: Changing into the 20th Century (Part One)
The Great War was not just about loss and victory; we understand it to be Britain's watershed of change during… Read more…
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Names on St Paul's Church Memorial: St Paul's Church was built by John Walter, entirely at his own expense, during… Read more…
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Thoughts on the Great War. By John Redwood MP for Wokingham
The mass slaughter on a new industrial scale in the 1914-18 war has haunted me from my childhood days. From… Read more…
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Author Archives: wokinghamremembers
The true story of Berkshire's California
This week’s contributor is Trevor Ottlewski; researcher, author and Chairman of the Wokingham History Group. Trevor has a wide knowledge of local history and specialises in the area’s historic buildings. (This article originally appeared in the Wokingham Paper 24th July … Continue reading
Tales from the Dark Forest – Rosa Rose 1869
This week local historian ROGER LONG tells of the mysterious story of Rosa Rose, accused of murdering her son and a case investigated by Mr Leveson Gower JP to assess if there was a case to answer. The drama unfolded … Continue reading
Journey to the centre of the dark Forest
In last week’s article we discovered the origins of the Royal Windsor Forest and its influence on the early communities of Wokingham and its surrounding villages. This week and with the help of local historian PETER SHILHAM we take a … Continue reading
1860: Wokingham opens the New Town Hall
Jim Bell is renowned for the 30 short books he has written on Wokingham. In this article Jim tells the story of how the Wokingham Town Hall was built and a fascinating tale of an old silk weaver from the … Continue reading
Incredible website to incredible maps!
Arborfield historian Steve Bacon, sent a link to an incredible website which overlays old maps onto new ones ! The link zooms in on the Keephatch side of Wokingham; the overlay map is pre Great War. However, you can do … Continue reading
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 had recently arrived in Wokingham, when the unsealed roads were either rutted in the winter or dustbowls in the summer, … Continue reading
1857 Wokingham Elections: Tories and Whigs at war
This article originally published in 1st May Wokingham Paper 2015. In this week’s edition of ‘Wokingham Remembers’ we turn our attention to Wokingham’s contribution to the national General Election of 1857. Our story is about two political parties vying for … Continue reading
The double life of Arthur Hill, 6th Marquess of Downshire
By Jim Bell. This article first appeared in ‘The Wokingham Paper’, 24th April 2015 A young man sits holding the reins of a horse drawn fire engine. He is the chief of Wokingham’s voluntary fire service and also just happens … Continue reading
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 the local history of Wokingham I had been puzzled as to why a fire engine had been stored in the … Continue reading
2015: Waterloo's bi-centenary
200 years of Wokingham, Wellington and Waterloo 1815 – 2015 This article appears in the first edition of the Wokingham Paper. If you would like to add to it, comment or criticise it (heaven forbid) please go to the comments … Continue reading