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• About Us
  • Book Reviews
    • ‘A Joyous Service: The Clewer Sisters and Their Work’ by Valerie Bonham
    • ‘A Party Fit for Heroes’ by Derek Hunt & John Mulholland
    • ‘A Place in Life: The Clewer House of Mercy’
    • ‘A Selection of Windsor Independents’ by Paul Lacey
    • ‘Buildings of Old Windsor’ by Margaret Gilson
    • ‘Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer’ by Valerie Gray
    • ‘Cumberland Lodge: A House Through History’ by Helen Hudson
    • ‘Fires of Windsor Castle’ by Sheila Rooney
    • ‘I-Spy Guide to Windsor’, by Beryl Hedges
    • ‘In Service to Three Monarchs at Windsor’ by Norman Oxley
    • ‘J. Jennings Yard, Windsor: a closed-shaft garderobe and assosicated medieval structures’ by John W. Hawkes & Michael J. Heaton
    • ‘Patrick Y. Alexander’, by Gordon Cullingham
    • ‘Remembering Wartime Ascot, Sunningdale, and Sunninghill (1939-1945)’ by Christine Weightman
    • ‘Royal Landscape: The Gardens and Parks of Windsor’ by Jane Roberts
    • ‘Sisters of the Raj: The Clewer Sisters in India’ by Valerie Bonham
    • ‘St Leonard’s Hill Windsor: House, Hermitage and Hill’
    • ‘The Harcourt Journals’ by Sheila and Pat Rooney
    • ‘The Institute that became an Institution’
    • ‘The Prince’s Mistress: a life of Mary Robinson’ by Hester Davenport
    • ‘The Royal Stained Glass Works Old Windsor Berkshire 1878-1890’ by Gordon Cullingham
    • ‘The Story of St Stephen’s College’ by Jenny Balston
    • ‘The Story of Windsor’, by Maurice Bond
    • ‘True Ghosts and Ghouls of Windsor and Eton’ by Brian Langston
    • ‘Unknown Taplow and Environs’ by Eric Fitch
    • ‘Vanished Windsor’ by Elias Kupfermann
    • ‘Victorian Childhood in Windsor’ by Judith Hunter
    • ‘Windsor & Eton: Centuries of Change’ by Sheila Rooney
    • ‘Windsor Great Park: A Visitor’s Guide’ by Andrew Fielder
    • ‘Windsor Pubs’ by Carol Dixon-Smith and Dr Brigitte Mitchell
    • ‘Windsor Racecourse’ by Jim Beavis
    • ‘Windsor: A Journey through Time’
    • ‘Catholic Windsor and the Church of St Edward the Confessor’ by Dr Brigitte Mitchell
    • ‘Windsor Town and Castle’ by Henry Farrar
    • Book Reviews of Windlesora 28
    • Streets of Windsor and Eton
    • Windlesora 15 Book Reviews
  • Constitution
  • Eton Action Fairs
  • In Memoriam
    • Barbara Mitch
    • Beryl Hedges
    • Elias Kupfermann
    • Elizabeth Brown
    • Ellen Dollery
    • Fred Fuzzens
    • Geoff Try
    • Giles Baxendale
    • Gordon Cullingham
    • Hester Davenport
    • John Handcock CVO DL
    • Joyce Doreen Sampson
    • Judith Hunter PhD MBE
    • Judith Hunter PhD MBE
    • Kathleen Whelan
    • Ken Marson
    • Margaret Gilson
    • Mollie Cullingham
    • Norman Oxley
    • Pamela Marson
    • Phyllis Reddick
    • Raymond South
    • Sheila Rooney
  • Make a Donation
  • Our Publications
  • Past Meetings
  • Speakers
  • WLHG Open Days
• Blog
• EERC 1939 Press Clippings
• Eton Excelsior Rowing Club
  • Eton Excelsior During The War
    • EERC 1940 Press Clippings
    • EERC 1941 Press Clippings
    • EERC 1942 Press Clippings
    • EERC 1943 Press Clippings
    • EERC 1944 Press Clippings
    • EERC 1945 Press Clippings
  • Eton Excelsior in the 1920s
    • EERC 1924 Press Clippings
    • EERC 1925 Press Clippings
    • EERC 1926 Press Clippings
    • EERC 1927 Press Clippings
    • EERC 1928 Press Clippings
    • EERC 1929 Press Clippings
  • Eton Excelsior in the Thirties
    • EERC 1930 Press Clippings
• Explore History
  • Bailiffs & Mayors
  • Eton Prime Ministers
  • Kings and Queens
  • Local Blue Plaques
    • Details of the Blue Plaques (1)
    • Details of the Blue Plaques (2)
  • Local People
    • Charles Knight
    • Jane Vigor – An Extended Article
    • Sir Francis Tress Barry
  • Members of Parliament
  • Norden’s 1607 Plan of Windsor
  • Victoria Cross Recipients
  • Windsor – the Early Years
  • Windsor: A Thousand Years
• News & Events
  • Forthcoming Events
• Payment for Windlesora (Band A)
• Payment for Windlesora (Band B)
• Payment for Windlesora (Band C)
• Projects
• Resources
  • Berkshire Old and New
    • Election Scandal at Windsor
  • Page Index
  • Press Clippings
    • Friends of the Windsor Museum
    • In the News: Buildings
    • In the News: Events
    • In the News: People
    • In the News: the WLHG
    • Views of the Past
  • The Express Archive
  • The Legal Stuff
  • The Purple Scrapbook
  • The Windsor, Slough and Eton Express newspaper files
  • Useful Links
• Search the Website
• Welcome
  • Events
• Windlesora Magazine
  • Windlesora 01
    • A Peep Behind The Ivy
    • A Royal Relic
    • Eton Boys and the River
    • Passages of a Working Life
    • Swan Upping
    • Thames Fludde
    • The Brewhouse Gallery: Eton College
    • The Fascination of Directories
    • The Windsor Martyrs
    • Windsor Gingerbread
  • Windlesora 02
    • A Medieval Hearth at Knight’s Close, Windsor
    • Closed – But Not Quite
    • Excerpt from “The Old Windsor Magazine”
    • George III and the First Hydrogen Balloons in England
    • Imperial Service College, Windsor, and its Forerunners
    • Memories of Windsor: #1 ‘Shopping’
    • The Dedworth Flying Bomb
    • The Windsor, Slough & District Family History Society
    • When the War Came to Spital
    • Windsor Soup
  • Windlesora 03
    • Excavation at Wraysbury
    • Roses and Lilies
    • The Brocas Family of Clewer
    • The First Aeronauts at Windsor
    • The Poor Knights of Windsor
    • The Princess Margaret Royal Free School
    • The Telephone comes to Windsor
    • War-Time Election
    • What’s in a Name?
  • Windlesora 04
    • An Old Arithmetic Book
    • An Outing to Kew
    • Burnaby the Great (1842-85)
    • Digging Up One’s Family Tree
    • Herne’s Oak
    • Mary Loder’s Cookbook 1777
    • Recollections of the Home Guard in Windsor
    • The Brown Brothers of Windsor: Coachbuilders
    • The Letter Boxes of Windsor
    • William de Braose and St. Leonard’s Hermitage
  • Windlesora 05
    • Characters I Remember from between the Wars
    • Commemorating Sir Sidney Camm
    • H.G. Wells, Windsor and Maidenhead
    • How Balloon Meadow Got Its Name
    • Richard Martin
    • Roland Errington
    • The First Eton Porny School
    • The Origins of the Royal Free Foundation
  • Windlesora 06
    • Charles Knight of Windsor
    • Diary of a Stationmaster
    • Eton College
    • Four Arthur Vansittarts
    • Hitler’s Rockets over East Berkshire
    • Rhinos and Ruins:
    • The Windsor Post
    • Thomas Hardy
  • Windlesora 07
    • A Memory of Queen Victoria
    • Capper’s Dictionary 1825
    • Revival: Moody and Sankey in Windsor
    • Ruins of Windsor, USA
    • S. J. Stone : The Hymn Writer of Spital
    • Serendipity
    • The Catholic Church in Windsor
    • The Guildhall Tercentenary
    • Windsor’s History in Print
  • Windlesora 08
    • A Complication of Circumstances
    • A History of Prince Consort Cottages
    • Putting Windsor on the Map
    • Samuel Lillycrop
    • Some Windsor Memorials
    • Stained Glass Windows with Windsor Connections
  • Windlesora 09
    • Belgian Volunteers Visit Windsor, 1867
    • Bier Lane
    • Davis of Windsor
    • J. Gane & Co. of Eton
    • Old Windsor Cricket, Football & Working Men’s Clubs
    • Royal Proclamations
    • Siege of Windsor Raised After ‘Chemical Warfare’ Off Dover
    • Who Lived There?
  • Windlesora 10
    • A Labourer on the Royal Estates in the Nineteeth Century
    • Charles Knight
    • Joseph Ryder
    • Poor Little Orphans
    • Preface: A Discovery of Berkshire
    • Royal Volunteer Review, Windsor 1868
    • The First United Kingdom Air Mail Delivery
    • Windsor Steam Laundry
    • Windsor’s Riverside
  • Windlesora 11
    • A Schoolboy View of the 1947 Flood
    • Enjoying History
    • Excerpts from My Early Life
    • From Rags to Ritual
    • Robert Keayne (1595-1656)
    • Sophie Elizabeth Marquise D’Harcourt 1771-1846
    • Windsor Parish Players
  • Windlesora 12
    • Buried Treasure
    • Cinderella in the Waterloo Chamber
    • Libraries for Working Men
    • Margaret Oliphant
    • Scamps Reclaimed
    • The Chocolate Connection
    • Throwing Some Light on the Lamplighter
  • Windlesora 13
    • A Royal Wish Fulfilled
    • Clewer Camera Club
    • Edward Lear at Clewer Green
    • The Batchelors Acre Tank
    • WG Grace and Cumberland Lodge
    • Windsor Boys’ School
    • Windsor’s Saluting Cannons
  • Windlesora 14
    • Curtain Up!
    • Extracts from the Windsor Guide
    • Lord Gowrie (1872-1955)
    • No Way Through
    • Rehearsal
    • The Ken Shepherd Archive
    • The Man on the Memorial
    • Windsor Model Aero Club and the Camm Family
  • Windlesora 15
    • A Royal Funeral
    • Alice in Wonderland
    • Harry Greenwood VC
    • Mary ‘Perdita’ Robinson 1758-1800
    • Report to the Council
    • Sentinel
    • Souvenirs
    • The Rise and Fall of the Windsor Bank
    • Theatre Royal Windsor and the National Trust
    • Twenty-One Years of WLHPG
    • Two Monuments in Windsor Parish Church
    • William Morris Stained Glass Windows
  • Windlesora 16
    • Edward Matthew Ward RA (1816-1879)
    • Old Windsor Carnival
    • Our Pretty, Witty Nell
    • Pennyroyal Almshouses
    • Pleasures and Pains
    • Preambulation of the Parish Boundaries
    • The Apothecary’s Token
    • The Children’s Tragedy
    • White Bus – Winkfield
    • Windsor’s Two VCs
  • Windlesora 17
    • A Suffragette Attack
    • Christchurch United Reformed Church, William Street
    • From Workhouse to Mansion
    • Lady Florence Paget
    • Living in the Shadow of Eton
    • Market Cross House (Crooked House)
    • Oliver Brooks VC
    • The Beautiful Lady Waldegrave
    • The Problems of Windsor’s Gaol
    • The Second Mrs Sheridan
    • The Windsor Chair
    • Who tried to kill Lady Florence?
    • Windsor Deprived
  • Windlesora 18
    • Debunking A Myth
    • Denman and Goddard
    • Eton Wick
    • Michael Goddard
    • Mrs Horace Dodge and St Leonard’s Mansion
    • New Volunteer at the Royal Borough Museum Collection
    • Passages of a Working Life
    • St John’s Church
    • St Peter’s School, Old Windsor
    • The Creators of the Dioramas
    • The Reverend Arthur A Robins MA
  • Windlesora 19
    • Cliff Richard was at my house, but I couldn’t tell anyone — until afterwards
    • Jubilees That Might Have Been
    • Keppel Terrace, a vanished part of Windsor
    • Leading Councillors in the 19th Century
    • Memories of Wartime and VE Day
    • My Early Life in Windsor
    • Patchwork of Memories
    • Porta Victoriana
    • Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee 1887
    • Records of Jubilation
    • Sixty Years a Queen!
    • The Absent King
    • The Queen’s Silver Jubilee
    • The Silver Jubilee of George V
  • Windlesora 20
    • A Vanished Part of Windsor
    • Boy Soldier
    • Clarence Road Secondary School
    • Clewer in the 1950s
    • Dedworth in the Fifties
    • Some Fifties Memories
    • Stag Hunt in Peascod Street!
    • Sugar Ray Robinson in Windsor in 1951
    • The Conservative Pantomime
    • The First Windsor
    • The Royal Borough’s Glory Days
    • The Royal Funeral
    • The Swing Riots
    • Vale Road Clinic in 1955
    • Windsor District Trefoil Guild
    • Windsor’s Court
  • Windlesora 21
    • ‘Queen Mary erected a curious fountain…’
    • Eton Excelsior RC – Fifty Years On
    • Eton Excelsior Rowing Club
    • Eton Wick Boys Gather Wild Flowers c.1895
    • Foul Water and the Thames
    • Sea Rangers in Windsor
    • The Eton and Windsor Royal Humane Society
    • The Poor Knights of Windsor
    • Three Thames Locks
    • Waterworks and Wells
    • Windsor & Eton Sea Cadets
    • Windsor Barracks and the Problems with the Drains
    • Windsor Swimming Club
  • Windlesora 22
    • 1830
    • A Schoolboy Pleasures
    • Entertaining Medieval Windsor
    • Garden Fete
    • Layton’s
    • Public Houses and the Military in Windsor during 19th century
    • Public Houses in Windsor during 19th century
    • The First Theatre Royal
    • The Institute that became an Institution
    • The Last Picture Show
    • The Lure of the Turf
    • The Making of No Sex Please, We’re British
    • The Sebroke Crozier
    • The Sedan Chair
    • The Windsor Express
    • Windlesora 22 – Our Cover Picture
  • Windlesora 23
    • A Shop of Wealth and Fashion
    • Alexandra Gardens and Sir Francis Tress Barry, Bart
    • Carlton China British Mark IV Tank
    • Goss and Crested China
    • How do you solve a problem like Maria?
    • John Ramsbottom
    • Old Windsor Goes to War
    • Postcards
    • Shopping in the 60s
    • The Changing Face of Grocery Shopping
    • The Corby Trouser Press
    • The Lay Stewards of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle
    • The Windsor and Eton Express Newspaper Files
    • The Work Room
    • Thief on the Run
  • Windlesora 24
    • 1937 – Windsor’s Two Months of Majesty
    • 1947 – Presenting the Bouquet to HRH Princess Elizabeth
    • Archaeological Discoveries
    • Canaletto and the Mysterious Mr Crowle
    • Holy Trinity Church
    • Kipling Building — From College to Cakes
    • Soup Recipe for Charitable Institutions
    • The Bridge at Windsor and its Masonic Dedication Ceremony
    • The Church of St Peter and St Andrew, Old Windsor
    • The Sad Tale of Maria
    • Unfit for Occupation
  • Windlesora 25
    • A Morbid Memento
    • A Schoolboy’s Memories
    • A Turbulent Priest – John Dalton, Canon of Windsor
    • Adventures through a Stained Glass Window
    • Buildings of Virtue
    • Doris Mellor and the Battle for Batchelors Acre
    • George Moore Henton
    • Letters from a Lady: the Remarkable Life of Jane Vigor
    • Mary Ellis of Datchet: Motorcycling Pioneer
    • Scouts Start in Old Windsor
    • Sir Daniel Gooch, Engineer
    • The Gwyn Inheritance
    • The Magazines
    • The mystery of the German princess buried in a Windsor cemetery
    • The Phenomenon of England!
    • The Soldier That Died
    • The Tale of a Thames Street Tobacconist
  • Windlesora 26
    • ‘I saved the Train’
    • A Y Nutt
    • Attempted Assassination of Queen Victoria in Windsor in 1882
    • Beaumont at Old Windsor
    • Drowned at Sea: Owen George Allum
    • Fire!
    • Hadleigh House and Clifford Lodge
    • Mystery at Oakley Green?
    • The Circus Comes to Town
    • The Gwyn Inheritance: Continued
    • The Notorious Mrs Elizabeth Bedborough
    • Townswomen in Windsor
    • Tragedy at Windsor Theatre
    • Vignettes from the Windsor Express 1830
    • When Windsor Girls’ School went on the Record
    • Who Do You Think You Are?
    • Windsor’s First Woman Mayor
    • Words of Comfort from the Front during the First World War
  • Windlesora 27
    • A Case of Witchcraft in Elizabethan Windsor
    • A Murdered Windsor Child
    • A Windsor Pioneer
    • Clewer Police Station
    • Executions of Windsor Criminals
    • First English Police Dog
    • Holy Trinity Chapel, Denmark Street.
    • Instruments of Punishment
    • Lost and Found
    • Murder in Arthur Road
    • Parings from Park Street
    • Pillory, tumbrel and gallows
    • Prisons, crime and punishment in Windsor during the nineteenth century
    • Royal Theft
    • The Duchess Blair
    • The Queen’s Discretion
    • The Squire of Windsor
    • The Trial Following the Attempted Assassination of Queen Victoria
    • The Windsor Martyrs
  • Windlesora 28
    • 1948 Olympics – The Austerity Games.
    • 300 years old – and still going strong!
    • At Last – Windsor has its Museum
    • Charles Dickens 1812-1870
    • Clewer Museum
    • Edward Robinson VC
    • Jane, Henry and the Crutchleys
    • Richardson-Gardner MP DL FSA (1827-1898)
    • Robert Barker and the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible
    • Thames Hospice Care
    • The 1908 Marathon
    • The Coronation Aerial Post
    • The Olympic Flame
    • The Windsor and Eton Express is 200 years old this year
    • Titanic
    • Windsor & Eton Operatic Society, 1961 – 2011
    • Windsor Ladies Swimming Club
  • Windlesora 29
    • Book Reviews of Windlesora 29
    • Coronation Festivities
    • Coronation Memories
    • George IV’s Great Day
    • Naughty Knights of Windsor
    • Queen Victoria’s Coronation
    • The Queen Victoria Jubilee Nurses: District Nursing Service
    • Windlesora: Past and Present
    • Windsor Greys
    • Windsor Waits to Welcome The Queen
    • Windsor’s Connection with Two Coronations
  • Windlesora 30
    • A Lunatic at Windsor Castle
    • A Postcard From Windsor
    • Book Reviews of Windlesora 30
    • Cadet Reginald Aden Robert Try
    • Caleys
    • Hidden History of Museum Object 424.58.4
    • It Will Be Over By Christmas
    • King Edward VII Hospital in the War
    • Sarajevo to War
    • Sir Francis Tress Barry
    • The ‘Russian’ Hurricane
    • The Christmas Truce
    • The Danger of Banana Fritters
    • The King And the Fish
    • The Royal Tapestries: April 29, 1882
    • The Royal Windsor Website and Forum
    • Upton School House
    • Victoria Barracks Fountain Memorial
  • Windlesora 31
    • Agincourt
    • ‘A’ Squadron
    • Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
    • How Canon Carter came to Clewer
    • Jam and Jerusalem
    • Magna Carta
    • People of Old Windsor: Thomas Evans
    • The Military Knights of Windsor who fought at Waterloo
    • The Road to Waterloo
    • The Royal Remains of Charles I
    • Trooper Thomas Evans
    • Where were Victoria Cottages?
    • Who Lived There?
    • Windsor Tunnels: Fact or Fiction?
  • Windlesora 32
    • A Mediaeval Suicide at Eton
    • Battle of the Somme
    • Bellarmine Jug
    • Black Potts
    • Duffey’s Bakery
    • Hollywood and the Queen
    • How Gas Lighting came to Windsor
    • Oxford Road
    • People of Old Windsor
    • Princess Elizabeth
    • Princess Elizabeth at Old Windsor
    • Royal Berkshire Regiment
    • Service Before Self
    • The Death of Lord Kitchener
    • The Great Park
    • The Magna Cartas
    • Tracks to Windsor
    • Verdun
  • Windlesora 33
    • Boots the Chemist
    • Canadian Regimental Colours
    • Centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele
    • Clockmakers, Ironmongers and Locksmiths
    • Edward Robinson VC
    • First World War Memorial Garden
    • George Bennett
    • Henry Cox: Transported
    • Lord Roberts and the Windsor Veterans
    • Memorial to Hester Davenport
    • Queen Elizabeth II
    • The Albert Medal
    • The Changing Face of Peascod Street
    • The Prince Philip Trust for the Royal Borough
    • The Two Windsors
    • The Windsor Ragged School
    • Where was Grandma born?
  • Windlesora 34
    • Aircraft Crash in Eton (Feb ‘18)
    • Award for WHLG Chairperson
    • Colonel Dunbar Douglas Muter
    • Commemorative Plaque to Frederic Rainer
    • Edward James Try
    • Ghosts of Windsor Businesses Past
    • Horse Chestnuts and the War Effort
    • How W. J. Daniel & Co Opened in Windsor
    • Princess Charlotte of Wales
    • Private John Statham
    • Rebuilding the White Hart Hotel
    • Reginald Aden Robert Try RFC
    • Sir Dhunjibhoy Bomanji
    • The Former Princess Christian Nursing Home
    • The Totem Pole
    • The Whistling Court Case
    • Thomas Hardy and All Saints Church
    • Vera Lynn in Windsor
    • Windsor and the Contagious Diseases Acts
    • Windsor and the End of the Great War
  • Windlesora 35
    • An Unfortunate Episode of Ecclesiastical History
    • Captain Ronald Campbell, Zulu War Casualty
    • Commemorative Paving Stone Unveiled For Harry Greenwood VC
    • Doris Mellor – Her Windsor Childhood
    • Election Scandal at Windsor
    • Emily Handcock, Windsor Schoolgirl
    • Florence Margaret Carteret Carey
    • In Royal Service
    • Lord Roberts’ Veterans: Robert Stobie
    • Peace Day Celebrations in 1919
    • Sir William Carter
    • St Leonards, Mrs Dodge, and the Romanovs
    • The 200th Anniversary of the Births of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
    • The Ricky Tick Club
    • The Sad Story of the Camelopard
    • The Windsor and Eton Society
    • Wilfrid Huggins RA (1873 – 1949)
    • Windsor Cemetery Road Names
    • Windsor Man and Atrocities
    • Windsor’s Losses
  • Windlesora 36
  • Windlesora 37
  • Windlesora 38
    • Agatha Christie at Clewer Mill House
  • Windlesora 39
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