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It’s 1860 and Wokingham’s new Town Hall opens for business
Wokingham’s Town Hall was completed in 1860; the scale of its structure dominates the surrounding shops and offices. The history books tell us it was opened by Richard Cornwallis Neville, the 4th Lord Baybrooke. It all sounds rather dry, but … Continue reading
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Wokingham 1914
Wokingham news throughout 1914 Jim Bell transcribes the Wokingham news section from the Reading Mercury throughout the whole of 1914. It is a remarkable insight to a small town assisting the war effort, reporting on its awful consequences, but at … Continue reading
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 a tablet inside the church itself. On this page there is also a transcription of the Reading Chronicle’s references to … Continue reading
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St Paul’s Church Memorial
Names on St Paul’s Church Memorial: St Paul’s Church was built by John Walter, entirely at his own expense, during the period 1862-1864. It was consecrated by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, on 23rd July 1864. For various reasons … Continue reading
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Wokingham Baptist Memorial
Wokingham Baptist Church Memorial The local Baptist Church in Milton Road is housed in a beautiful building first opened in 1860. This page provides the names of the members of the church who fought and died during the Great War … Continue reading
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374 pages of Wokingham Gold by Jim Bell
Wokingham Remembers presents a picture of a small forest town and how it was affected by the Great War. There have been invaluable contributions from a number of Berkshire people; one of them being local historian Jim Bell. For the … Continue reading
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Home Deliveries
We continue the conversation between Ken Goatley and his old friend Cecil Culver. Ken: “You were talking about the milkman taking his milk out of a churn. That rings a bell with me. When I was a kid living in … Continue reading
Schools
Cecil and Ken discuss the schools which existed in the first half of the 20th Century. Cecil: “In 1914, when I came here, there were three state schools in Wokingham. There was the Palmer School which was possibly the most … Continue reading
Another casualty of the Great War: Wokingham’s Mayor.
Our focus on the government of the Great War tends to be at national level, but Jim Bell’s extensive research has enabled us to look into local government from a Wokingham viewpoint. His latest book ‘Memories of the Town Hall’ … Continue reading
Philip Tice, a Wokingham WW2 Veteran aged 95.
It’s fascinating to see how a network of contacts can pool information together and come up with some global connections. Wokingham Remembers has published hundreds of family trees on its website, as well as the genealogy site, www.ancestry.co.uk . The … Continue reading