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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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Remembrance Day – The Incredible Story
This year's Remembrance Day will have a special significance as it is the centenary year of the start of the… Read more…
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What was in the Wokingham news during the Great War ?
These articles are all taken from one of the area’s principal newspapers, “The Reading Mercury (also including Oxford Gazette, Newbury… 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… Read more…
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BBC Radio Berkshire 2nd interview with Wokingham Remembers.
In this second interview, Sarah Huxford and Mike Churcher talks to BBC's Mike Read about the emergence of the symbols… Read more…
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Cecil and Ken discuss the schools which existed in the first half of the 20th Century. Cecil: "In 1914, when… Read more…
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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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Great Britain: Changing into the 20th Century (Part Three and conclusion).
Joshua Allerton completes his look at changing Britain with the War's role in women's suffrage. It is commonly believed that… Read more…
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1919 Victory ! Wokingham celebrates.
Local Historian, Jim Bell unearths this extensive coverage of Wokingham's Armistice Celebrations: "On Saturday, Wokingham duly celebrated the peace. The… 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 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