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 in the early 20th Century. Josiah Gregory was the proprietor of Western Farm and the Gregory family had been involved with farming in Cippenham over a considerable period of time. Western House school was built on the site of this house in the early 60s. Western House school demolished circa 2016 to make way for a housing development.
The photograph was taken from the garden of a houses in Brook Path. It is no earlier than the late 1950s and was probably taken in the early 60s.
The image above shows exactly where Western House was. is the 1897 OS map overlaying a present day aerial photograph. Western house has been shaded in red.
Images reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland
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