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 Winkfield - Concrete 'pillars' standing on square bases
Whilst out walking last Sunday we took the footpath that runs south of the New Mile Course from the Winkfield Road (A330) to Cheapside Road. Along this stretch of footpath are a few concrete 'pillars' standing on square bases. Does anyone kn |
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Funeral Service and burial of Gertrude Kemish
That above was was buried on or around the 29th December 1916. She was 6 years old and my mother's sister. I am trying to locate where funeral service was held and where she was buried. I do know that Dr to F Harrison & Son |
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Vaclav Nijinsky Sunningdale 1948-1950
Sunningdale 1st January 1950
In 1948 the couple moved to Sunningdale, Berkshire while Romola applied for British citizenship. In 1950, Nijinsky died in the London Clinic. |
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Savill Court Hotel a brief History
Englefield Green 1st January 1815
The first tangible evidence of the house that has become Savill Court is on the maps dated from 1815-1817. |
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Sunningdale local history
Sunningdale 1st January 1840
Situated between Windsor Great Park on the one hand and Chobham Common on the other there are few more delightful villages in such a location as Sunningdale. The whole of the civil parish of Sunningdale is ... |
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Alfred Montague
Englefield Green 1st January 1835
This painter lived for a time in the village. His paintings are quite sought after and usually reach a price of ?5000-?10000 at auction. Is there any other information about his stay in the village? |
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Brief History of Sunningdale Park
Sunningdale
Although there is little evidence of local Stone-Age settlements, the light and sandy soil lacked the flints used for tools, there are many Bronze-Age barrows in the area. |
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The beginnings of Cheapside
Cheapside 1st July 2002
Cheapside is a small village within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead at the eastern end of Berkshire. |
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Ascot Racecourse
Ascot 12th December 1711
Ascot Racecourse, founded in 1711 is the world's most famous racecourse. |
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The Royal Holloway Art Collection
Englefield Green 1st July 2002
The Collection of paintings was to provide an essential element for the fulfilment of Holloway's ideal of a first-rate educational establishment. The importance he placed on the Collection illustrates a typically Victorian belief in art as the ultimate ci |
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A brief history of Wentworth Estate
Virginia Water 29th June 2002
In the earliest times the area, essentially the medieval township of Portnall and the manor of Trotsworth which we now call the Wentworth Estate was a wild barren land of poor soil with occasional pockets of peat where little grew except silver birch, bra |
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Cabrera - the Boy
Virginia Water 29th June 2002
Ramon Cabrera was told he had no vocation for the Church, and told him he was more fitted to become a soldier |
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A Great Ornament
Virginia Water 1st January 1746
William, Duke of Cumberland, took up residence at the Lodge as Ranger in the Great Park in October 1746. |
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Before the Lake
Virginia Water 1st January 1748
Virginia Water was created in the eighteenth century, during the great age of landscape gardening. The forest streams that made its creation possible had of course been there for many years, probably many centuries. |
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The Virginia Water Royal renewal 1788-1790
Virginia Water 1st January 1788
The creation of the extended and reconstructed Virignia Water lake in its framework of woodlands belongs, however, to this short period of 1788-90. |
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