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They remembered. What if we forget?
Six brothers of Emmbrook's Potter family joined the Great War. Only three returned home and two badly injured. Anna Matthews is… Read more…
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2013 Centenary: Wokingham's First Cinema !
We have now mostly identified the names on the town’s memorial and have tried where possible to provide details of… Read more…
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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… Read more…
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1856: Cholera arrives in Wokingham
Flush the loo, turn on the taps and wash your hands; a simple act which came from decades of debate… Read more…
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Great Uncle William Churcher killed during the Bombing of West Hartlepool
In 1989, I began my own journey of tracing the Churcher family tree. I was eventually to be introduced to… Read more…
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Visiting Germany's WW1 Centenary events
Andrew Radgick is Chairman of Bracknell Forest Society and a great friend to the Wokingham Remembers project. I thought it… Read more…
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Here is a short summary of the main events of The Great War and links have been added to explain… Read more…
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200 years of Wokingham, Wellington and Waterloo 1815 - 2015 This article appears in the first edition of the Wokingham… Read more…
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Cecil Culver's Wokingham. Two: On the move
Down to Business: Reeves Removals. Jim Bell continues with the magnificent series of recollections by Cecil Culver, one of the great… Read more…
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Today Sunday 14th September. Meet us at the Town Hall from 11am
Today is Wokingham's Heritage Day and this year we examine the research put together by many of Wokingham's local history… Read more…
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The importance of newspapers as source material
Newspapers provide invaluable sources of information for historians seeking to present the Great War from varying positions. They also help place the reader into the story of the war rather than through the words of a historian. You can gain … Continue reading
Where They Lived
For me, this is possibly the most fascinating and the saddest part of the research. Once we discovered the stories of the men, we started pinning their addresses to a modern map of Wokingham. Although we suspected that they would … Continue reading
Film of the Wokingham men we lost in 1914
What was the impact of World War One on Wokingham in 1914? Here is a short film which shows the losses from August to December 1914. There were far more from around the Borough, but these are taken from Wokingham’s … Continue reading
Review of Heritage Day – September 14th, 2014
Research into Wokingham’s fallen started in 2011 and after three years, the information was presented to the people on Sunday 14th September, 2014. We had also invited the descendants of 20 of the fallen and were lucky enough to receive … Continue reading
Today Sunday 14th September. Meet us at the Town Hall from 11am
Today is Wokingham’s Heritage Day and this year we examine the research put together by many of Wokingham’s local history people. However, there is much more to the day, with a special focus on today’s children and lots for them … Continue reading
They remembered. What if we forget?
Six brothers of Emmbrook’s Potter family joined the Great War. Only three returned home and two badly injured. Anna Matthews is the Great Grand Niece of the Potter brothers; her Great Grandmother was their sister Bertha. Anna share’s her thoughts of the … Continue reading
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 an early age I was aware of the long shadow of all those deaths. As a young boy I skirted … Continue reading
A story of the unexpected: Wokingham's Town Hall Memorial.
The War Memorial in Wokingham’s Town Hall provides 217 names of men who fell during the Great War. It is natural to assume the names are made up of all the Fallen who came from around the Wokingham town area. … Continue reading
Summary of The Great War
Here is a short summary of the main events of The Great War and links have been added to explain them in greater detail. 1914. On the 28th June 1914, the Austria-Hungarian Empire’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was murdered by Gavrilo … Continue reading
The Great War: “I just think of all the poor mothers”
Mother’s Day: Thinking of Mothers Past. Although we have posted over 200 biographies of the men of Wokingham on this website, many more names have been investigated and in truth, it has at times been hard going. After looking through … Continue reading