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White Horse Inn Pictures
Here are some pictures of the White Horse taken some time between 1996 and 2000. The White Horse is believed to have been a coaching inn. It stood on the Bath Road next to Brook Path and…
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Comparing Old Cippenham with The Present Day
The National Library of Scotland has created a superb online resource for making comparisons between historic Ordnance Survey maps and Esri satellite images. The image below has been…
Medieval
The Montem Mound is Anglo-Saxon
In December 2016, a team from the Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, drilled into the Montem Mound (the Salt Hill) and removed samples of soil in order to determine its age.…
Features
Fun with colouring
Recently, newly coloured-in versions of vintage black-and-white photographs have been appearing in newspapers and online news sites. The realism of the colouring compares favourably with…
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We want your memories
If you have lived in Cippenham, please share a memory or two with our readers. We’d like to publish everyday stories about the people and buildings from Cippenham’s past. Anything from just…
19th Century up to WW-1
Earliest photograph of Cippenham
This is probably the earliest photograph of Cippenham, taken at the village centre. The image was supplied by Slough Museum and their record states that it was from 1907. The view is along…
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”.…
WW-2
Was the Cippenham V1 air Launched?
More that one reader has suggested that given the date it is almost certain that the Cippenham V1 must have been launched from an aeroplane in the Thames estuary aimed at London and that…
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…