WW-1
How Cippenham Court Farm became The Slough Dump
Cippenham Court Farm, 1909/10. Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies D11/12/14 Prior to the 20 th century, Cippenham was a quiet country village consisting of humble terraced cottages…
THE CIPPENHAM COLLECTION
From the archive · 2017-06
People, places and stories from our village’s past.
18 stories
WW-2
The Mystery of the Cippenham Duck
In the late 1960s when I was a small boy, I was playing one day on Cippenham village green with two other local boys when they announced that they were going to play on the “duck”. I didn’t…
WW-2
The Cippenham V1
In World War 2, Cippenham escaped relatively lightly from German bombing. At around 8:40 AM on 23 August 1944, however, a V1 flying bomb (doodlebug) fell from the sky and exploded near to…
19th Century up to WW-1
Disastrous Fire at Cippenham Green, 1908
A century ago, house fires were much more common than they are today. Open hearths and naked-flame lighting created opportunity for accidental fires to start and the higher flammability of…
Medieval
Cippenham Royal Palace
There is a tradition that in Cippenham there was once an Anglo-Saxon palace which was home to the Kings of Mercia. In A Topographical Dictionary of England published in 1848 [1], the entry…
Snippets
Fire at Cippenham Court Farm in 1919
This article from The Evening Telegraph, Thursday, June 5, 1919 DISASTROUS FIRE NEAR MOTOR TRANSPORT DEPOT Cippenham Court Farm, which adjoins the Government motor transport depot at…
Post WW-2
Western House
This is a detail from a photograph in Slough Museum’s collection. It shows Western House, a large farmhouse on the east side of Brook path which was homestead to the farmer Josiah Gregory…
Snippets
John Rocque's Berkshire Map, 1761
John Rocque’s ‘A topographical map of the county of Berkshire’ was first published in 1761. It could well be the earliest map in existence that shows Cippenham, which Rocque spelt…
19th Century up to WW-1
Shocking practices of Cippenham villagers
Cippenham Villagers shocking up corn 1909/10. Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies D11/12/14 This image shows Cippenham villagers indulging in the long-forgotten practice of “shocking up”.…
Snippets
The Haymill Water Wheel?
Many people who lived in Cippenham Green will remember the sight of an abandoned water-wheel lying in a field. Past the north side of the village green was a large field known as Greg’s…
Medieval
Two-Mile Brook
Two-mile brook is an ancient mill stream that flows from Haymill (once the site of a mill called Ay Mill) through the heart of Cippenham. It possesses more early historical references than…
WW-1
The man who came back from the dead
Cippenham War Memorial 2016 The war memorial in the centre of Cippenham carries the names of those from the village who fell during the First and Second World Wars. The inscribed list for…