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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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All Saints Church Memorial and news from 1860
All Saints Church built a war memorial for their parishioners in 1921; a monument situated outside in the grounds and… 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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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… Read more…
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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… Read more…
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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… Read more…
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The Somme Tunnels on BBC 4. Monday 19th May 9pm
One of the Western Front's great journeys is a visit to the Lochnagar Crater in La Boisselle, a huge hole… Read more…
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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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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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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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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 larger drive from England to Croatia. Dachau is just north of Munich, which saw most of the early days of … Continue reading
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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 the First World War the “Western Front” ran from the Channel coast … Continue reading
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