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Barkham Remembers Barkham Parish Council is recognising the sacrifices of local men and centenary of the outbreak of WWI by… Read more…
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Jim Bell's new book: Memories of Wokingham Town Hall 1947-2005
For the most part, the histories presented in this Wokingham Remembers page are of events steeped in a past which… Read more…
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Cecil Culver's Wokingham. Three: Fun, Friendship, Fraternity.
Jim Bell's final instalment of the life of Cecil Culver tells us about how the Wokingham community organised its leisure and the… 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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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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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… 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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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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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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Hills Nicholson family: Four sons lost in two World Wars
The Nicholson family have no Wokingham street or building named after them and have sunk below the consciousness of today's… Read more…
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Cecil and Ken in Conversation 1996. By Jim Bell
Jim Bell: “Cecil’s reminiscences are taken from three interviews by his old friend and historian, Ken Goatley. The first two were recorded on audio tape in 1996 when he described his life and reminisced about Wokingham during the first twenty-five … Continue reading