NOSTALGIA: Lead paint fears for nursery play
THE longest serving worker with one of the oldest firms on Slough Trading Estate was waving goodbye to his job making rubber gloves.
THE longest serving worker with one of the oldest firms on Slough Trading Estate was waving goodbye to his job making rubber gloves.
OLD Windsorians women’s rugby squad were looking for new players in 1985, to compete against many of the fledgling 25 teams that had started up in the 1980’s.
THE Queen’s Guide award is the highest award a guide can attain, but three Slough girls were presented with one each in 1972.
When a German bomb destroyed his childhood home in North London during the “blitz” of World War Two, Henry Shelford became trapped in the wreckage, and lost his right arm.
A FAMILY funday with Shire horses, a fortune teller and a display of vintage cars was part of a big thank you from Iveco Ford, Langley, to their staff and families in 1995.
The Iver Fair committee arranged for a trip of a lifetime for their newly crowned ‘Miss Iver’, Mary Alexander, to visit the set of the ITV sitcom “Bless This House” in 1972, with a VIP lunch thrown in at nearby Pinewood studios.
April Fool pranksters put up a spoof ‘twinning’ sign just before anti-nuclear marchers entered the Slough Borough in 1988 suggesting the town was twinned with…Chernobyl.
Queen Victoria was the first patron of the Royal National Institute for the Blind and to celebrate its 125th anniversary in 1993, a ‘big breakfast’ was held at Windsor’s famous waxworks exhibition, ‘Royalty and Empire’ in Windsor.
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