WW-1
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…
THE CIPPENHAM COLLECTION
19th Century up to WW-1
People, places and stories from our village’s past.
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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,…
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…
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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…
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…
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”.…
19th Century up to WW-1
Sir John Herschel and Jos Langton of Cippenham Court Farm
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, section of portrait drawn by H W Pickersgill and engraved by W J Ward. Published 1835. National Portrait Gallery, London Sir John Herschel (1792-1871),…