tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35914011707052868172024-03-12T19:27:36.220-07:00Historical CookhamA pictorial and descriptive step back in time.Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.comBlogger447125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-14667392809224538302015-01-31T11:56:00.000-08:002015-01-31T11:56:14.004-08:00This happened 63 years ago
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Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-88152183190394278862014-07-27T16:48:00.000-07:002014-07-27T16:48:03.138-07:00Historical Cookham is Six years old.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the 1st of August, 2014. The Historical Cookham Blog will be celebrating its sixth birthday. It has just passed the 120,000 mark of people checking in to look up historical information. At this time I would like to thank all those good friends that helped me in my research and provided maps and very old photographs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have also advanced in posting information in posting still photos, to now using YouTube and audio information. We have not come to the end yet as information and photos with topics still keep arriving.</span></div>
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<strong>.</strong></span>Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-71339812445549501372014-07-19T12:43:00.000-07:002014-07-19T12:43:57.311-07:00The Sign of the Sun.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">A great many residents of Cookham pass this sign every day, and yet, I also wonder how many people have ever noticed it. This sign is embedded in the brickwork of a cottage just below the eave of the roof. Back in the 1800's, it was quite common place to have a sign or symbol like this installed on a building. In this case it was to show that building was insured against fire by the then Sun Insurance of London. Before I posted this blog, I made enquiries that it still existed, and I was informed that it is still in place. It can only be seen by either someone walking or riding a bicycle. So put on your walking shoes and look up.</span></div>
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Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-24570112439064539572014-07-12T18:57:00.000-07:002014-07-12T18:57:33.836-07:00The Pound Field.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A8cywSTAoKE/U8HkRKhtVCI/AAAAAAAADGs/IBJlaARPmzU/s1600/Pound+Field+1842+-+4912.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A8cywSTAoKE/U8HkRKhtVCI/AAAAAAAADGs/IBJlaARPmzU/s1600/Pound+Field+1842+-+4912.jpg" height="179" width="320" /></a></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">The Pound Field.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">There has been quite a lot of conversation as to what is and what is not the area called The Pound. Today that whole area is still called the pound and has nothing to do with The Moor at all. The stream that crosses The Moor is called The Fleet, and the causeway bridge is known as The Fleet Bridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">The map above is circa 1842, way before the GWR railway was laid in 1853 as a branch line from Maidenhead to High Wycombe.</span></div>
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Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-88953543881967236202014-02-02T08:54:00.002-08:002014-02-02T08:54:58.149-08:00Major Floods of Cookham<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">This photo was taken just outside East Flint looking towards The Moor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">This aerial photo is one of many at that time of the extent of flooding in the Thames Valley. I wish to thank once again all those of you who have contributed photos to help build the past history of the village.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">I have also put together a three minute You Tube to let you know the weather pattern that lead up to these two major floods, and if repeated could lead up to the same thing happening again.</span></div>
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Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-48760519647348713692014-01-30T11:23:00.000-08:002014-01-30T11:23:13.819-08:00Home for Milking<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Once again I am using a voice overlay over a still photo taken on what is thought to be a summer Sunday afternoon by William Bailey a local enthusiast of the day living in the village High Street.</span></div>
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Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-33103622191801614912014-01-25T16:40:00.003-08:002014-01-25T16:40:52.557-08:00The Hatch Family of Oveys Farm.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">The Hatch Family of Oveys Farm.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We now get down to looking at some of my Hatch ancestors who lived and worked the last farm in the village itself. One thing that I did not mention in my recording was the empty beer barrels in the bottom right of the photo. From information handed to me by my father and my aunts, that he was a great one to entertain his friends with a barrel of beer always on tap. From other information I have gained, was the fact my grandmother did not approve of his little parties in the barn!</span></div>
Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-27804954761430468182013-12-06T14:22:00.003-08:002013-12-06T14:22:57.833-08:00A Merry Christmas to all.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">Yes it is that time of the year when my wife Deborah and I take off for our annual visit to be with our Maori friends on the Island of Rarotonga. Which happens to be the Capital Island of the Cook Islands in the south pacific. So a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to one and all. We will be back with more history of Cookham towards the end of January. To get full screen click the bottom right of the video.</span></div>
Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-62343777024605515682013-11-29T17:30:00.001-08:002013-11-29T17:30:39.392-08:00Annie Slacks High Street.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Annie Slack's High Street.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">We now take a look at the Cookham as it was during the lifetime of the well known lady shopkeeper Annie Slack. As a matter of fact she was a lady who worked her entire life, and as the saying goes, 'She died in harness.' So now we look at her village and compare it with the village today.</span></div>
Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-53582812928278757492013-11-22T16:01:00.003-08:002013-11-22T16:01:33.326-08:00The Cookham Flower Show of 1937.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">The Cookham Flower Show of 1937.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">For this photograph of the Stewards and Judges of this flower show I wish to thank my old school chum Brian Hatch. I was unable to name all those in this photograph, so if anyone can recognize anyone that I have not mentioned, please let the Webmaster of Cookham.Com know so that it can be forwarded on to me.</span></div>
Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-80595376612324715482013-11-15T13:38:00.000-08:002013-11-15T13:38:34.049-08:00The Ballad of Cookham Town.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">The Ballad of Cookham Town.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">I have had this poem or ballad sitting on my desk for quite some time. At last I have found a way to bring it out when it was a Market Town. Yes, this I believe to have been written by a Hugh Mytton around some 200 years ago. Back in those days Maidenhead did not exist, it was just part of the parish of Cookham. The pictures I have used, are to try and capture the landscape as it would have been seen all those years ago.</span></div>
Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-6222090489415822222013-11-09T09:42:00.002-08:002013-11-09T09:52:53.420-08:00GC.Edward & Mrs. Violet Briggs.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">GC. Edward & Mrs. Violet Briggs.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">This is the second half of the Briggs family history, which includes a daring raid he carried out as a world war one pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service. Also of his wife Violet whose wartime and after the war efforts in the village.</span></div>
Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-58789655010618188722013-11-06T09:50:00.001-08:002013-11-06T09:50:24.510-08:00Pilot Officer Michael Featherstone Briggs.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Pilot Officer Michael Featherstone Briggs.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">As this blog is going to be published very close to Remembrance Day the 11th of November and that I have found a little history of this very young man and his short life. I will also be running a story on both his father and mother in another blog. As I am sure that little is known of them to this date.</span></div>
Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-60778984190357735582013-10-31T16:14:00.002-07:002013-10-31T16:14:52.577-07:00The Old Cookham Police Station.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">The Old Cookham Police Station.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">Once again I have used a modern day photo together with a historical voice over. Once again if you click on the bottom right hand corner of the photo you will get an enlarged photo.</span></div>
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Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-77616795524834582792013-10-24T13:06:00.000-07:002013-10-24T13:06:58.042-07:00The Village Chemist Shop.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">This story has been written before in this blog but, this time I have added a voice over so that you can get a feeling for what these chemists were like in dispensing their medicinal talents.</span></div>
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Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-22792589949880389232013-10-18T13:48:00.000-07:002013-10-18T13:48:42.920-07:00Tidleywink the Barber.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">Mr. Loveridge, better known as "Tidleywink." Was the man who gave me my first hair cut and many more after for the grand sum of sixpence. It also follows on later as the village Post Office after Budgen's gave up. Hit the bottom right of the picture to get a full screen view.</span></div>
Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-52370188782819692892013-10-13T13:21:00.000-07:002013-10-13T13:21:20.346-07:00Cookham High Street 1935.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This still clip, to which has been added small white arrows that point to each building as it is being described. Again I have added a verbal accounting of who owned, lived or worked in each place. Once again I am able though modern technology I am able to improve on my accounting of historical village life.</span></div>
Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-38791776032690930482013-10-10T15:48:00.000-07:002013-10-10T15:48:02.755-07:00From Vegetables to Pots.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">From Vegetables to Pots.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">This little shop I remember back in the 1930’s and
right through to the end of the war was a little Greengrocers run by a Mrs.
Smythe. Tom, her husband use to work at White Place Farm as a general farm
labourer. I remember at harvest time he was very skilled with the use of a
scythe, as the workmen use to cut ten foot swath around the field to make room
for the horse drawn binder to cut the crop without walking over the standing
wheat ,oats or barley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">When Tom retired, Mrs. Smythe also gave up her shop
and they moved away. It was then that Reg and Maggie Moon moved into the shop
and Reg set up his small pottery business. I remember well that visitors to
Cookham used to stand and watch Reg throwing his ware on the potter’s wheel as
he sat by the window. He also took orders from people on making that special
something for someone as a present. Since Reg and Maggie left for Henley on
Arden, the shop has had several owners, mainly in the boutique area of
merchandise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-81312403142453571392013-10-03T11:12:00.000-07:002013-10-08T10:25:14.981-07:00Going back 78 years.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This is a first time upgrade trial of posting information to this blog. Instead of a written account it is a verbal story. To get a full screen picture, just click on the bottom right hand corner.</span></div>
Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-48693739914316832102013-09-28T11:19:00.000-07:002013-09-28T11:19:56.204-07:00Gossip Joan.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Gossip Joan.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">My Thoughts of late
have been reflecting once more on my school days at Holy Trinity and later at
the Secondary Modern on High Road, better known back then as The Top School.
One of the subjects that were on the curriculum was singing. Most of our
teachers could play the piano. The songs that we were taught covered most of
the well-known English Folk Songs. One of which I have used to give a title to
this blog. The opening verse I still remember well:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Good morrow, Gossip Joan, <br />
Where have you been a-walking?<br />
I have for you at home; <br />
I have for you at home<br />
A budget full of talking, <br />
Gossip Joan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The style of the wording of the lyrics also brought
home to us the English of the day when it was first written. Another folk song
that I enjoyed because of the descant in it was: “A Keeper did a hunting go.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Jackie Boy - Master<br />
Sing you well - Very well<br />
Heigh down-ho down, derry derry down<br />
Among the leaves so green-o<br />
To my hey down down- To my ho down down <br />
Heigh down-ho down, derry derry down<br />
Among the leaves so green-o<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Also during those singing lessons
that the vicar used to attend to recruit choristers for the church choir. Ah!
Happy Memories!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">There has been a recent
enquiry on Cookham.com as to a local celebrity Diana Dors who made her home
near Boulters Lock. This triggered my thoughts to others of film, stage and
radio that use to frequent Cookham and enjoy a drink in one of the village’s
thirteen public houses. It was during the filming of Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three
Men in a Boat.” That one would find the actor Jimmy Edwards propping up the bar
in The Ferry after a day’s shooting along Cliveden Reach. If my memory serves
me correct this was in 1956. There are many others of stage, film and radio who
made frequent visits to Cookham during their professional careers</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">The Odney Diving Tower.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The tower in the photo
above was erected by the villagers themselves in the early 1900’s. An area
below the tower in the river bed was dredged to give an ample depth of water to
dive into. It was found to be not practical due to the fact that silt from the
weir and adjacent stream kept filling the excavated hole up. So the tower was removed
and a single spring diving board was installed. This was also removed around
the time that the two changing huts were removed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Historical Cookhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08134680512650230549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591401170705286817.post-24998055473844365852013-09-03T12:11:00.002-07:002013-09-03T12:11:36.295-07:00The Wall's 3d Choc Ice.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">The Wall's 3d Choc Ice.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I am now going back to the 1930’s in the summer
when people came out from London by train to spend a weekend in a camping punt,
rented from Mr. Turk, or just for the day to have a picnic by the Odney Pool.
It was here that “Old Joe.” We never knew his last name would pedal his Wall’s
Ice cream tricycle. There were three ice cream favourites of the children:
First the long triangle shaped Fruit Lolly for 1d. The 2d wafer brick went down
well with every one, and to top it off if you were lucky you could have the 3d
Choc Ice all wrapped up in silver paper. Then when he was on his way back to
Maidenhead one could hear the clanging of his tricycle bell and we would run up
to the road and buy a 9d block of ice cream to have with strawberries for our
Sunday tea. He also made sure to pack it well with dry ice so it would keep
cold till we were ready to have it with our strawberries</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The top photo shows the Widbrook Stream as I
remember it in the 1930’s, clear and free flowing as it was maintained by the
then Thames Conservancy. A team of twelve men lead by a Mr. Arthur Savoury used
to maintain the streams leading into the Thames from the Berkshire side of the
near Winter Hill right through to Bray. Someone is going to say, how do I
remember Mr. Savoury in particular? Well, he was and “Old Time Dance,” partner
to my Aunt Flo. Once about every five years the Thames Conservancy would bring
in a Priestman excavator or dragline in, to remove the silt from the bottom of
the stream.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This next photo is how the stream looks today all
choked up with aqua-weeds. I know the pollard willow trees look the same. As a
matter I would say that they are way over a hundred years old. There have been
willow trees along the stream for centuries. That is how the name Widbrook is
derived from the old local dialect word <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Widdie,”</b>
for Willow. There was a time when I could take my canoe from home and follow
the stream down through Islet Park to the river, then paddle up to meet my
friends from White Place Farm. Or one could paddle in the other direction to
the Fleet at Cookham. The last time that I remember it was given a good clean
was in the autumn of 1943 by a large group of Italian prisoners of war.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Bulk Biscuits of Bygone Years.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">To
continue with the grocers receiving goods in bulk reminded me of when biscuit
manufactures like Huntley and Palmers of Reading supplied the shops with
biscuits in tins like the one above. As a result it was a delight for little
boys like myself, to go into Budgen’s or The International and be able to buy a
bag full of broken biscuits for just a few pennies. It was a usual mixture of
cream filled, chocolate digestive, or just plain digestive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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