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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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Philip Tice, a Wokingham WW2 Veteran aged 95.
It’s fascinating to see how a network of contacts can pool information together and come up with some global connections.… 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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PEACH STREET SMITHIES By Jim Bell The subject of the smithy run by Fred Painter in Peach Street has arisen… Read more…
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Wokingham news throughout 1914 Jim Bell transcribes the Wokingham news section from the Reading Mercury throughout the whole of 1914.… Read more…
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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… 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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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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Cecil Culver. Introduction by Jim Bell
Today we start a magnificent series of recollections by Cecil Culver, one of the great cornerstones of the Wokingham community.… Read more…
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The fateful meeting on Finchampstead Ridges, 1501.
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a part of the religious and political upheavals which had lasted over a century.… Read more…
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Names Q
There are no names on Wokingham’s WW1 War Memorial which begin with ‘Q’.