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Village Pond dries up
For the first time in living memory, Cippenham village pond has almost completely dried up. The pond is connected to the stream that runs underground from Brook Path to the Millstream Lane…
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The Kings Head
The Kings Head is the oldest Pub in Cippenham. The White Horse was probably contemporary but is long gone. The Long Barn is an older building but has only been a public house since the…
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Unfortunate News - Village stream dries up.
Millstream Lane brook (traditionally know as Two-Mile Brook ) was the main path (via the Hay Mill, demolished 1961) by which the water that wells up in Lammas Meadow in Britwell reached the…
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1980’s Village Green Video
A little something to celebrate May Day with Venus and Jupiter in conjunction, by Juliette Brookman: Around 1985, an amateur video drama was made in a house in Roebuck Green. It was called…
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Burnham Beeches, Burnham and Burnham Station, Cippenham
The opening of Burnham Beeches Station in 1899 let smoke-addled Londoners take day trips to a scenic ancient woodland in the Middle Thames Valley which had been specifically purchased by…
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VE Day in Salt Hill Way
This photograph is of a street party held in Salt Hill Way to celebrate the Allied victory in Europe. In fact like many of the other street parties, it was actually held on the weekend…
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The strange tail of the Chalvey Stabmonk
Few people today will have heard of the bizarre ‘Stabmonk’ ceremony that took place annually on Whit Monday in Chalvey where a plaster-cast effigy of a monkey was given a mock funeral and…
WW-2
Author Susan Cooper and WW2
Susan Cooper is an acclaimed author of children’s books and is best known for her fantasy series, The Dark Is Rising. She was born in 1935 and grew up on Westlands Avenue in Huntercombe…
19th Century up to WW-1
Ploughing Match 1913
The photographs below are from The Royal South Bucks Ploughing Match and Agricultural Show held at Cippenham 1 st October 1913. The ploughing competition took place on Josiah Gregory’s Farm…
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Queen Anne’s Well, Chalvey
Queen Anne’s Well is said to have first been used to supply drinking water to the monarch at Windsor Castle at least 300 years ago. It wasn’t a well in the sense generally recognised today,…
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The Slough Bomb Mystery
Of the many secret files of World War Two that have been declassified, only one contains the word ‘mystery’ in its title. The event that confounded the British War Cabinet and the…
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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…