Windlesora 03

Published

Published in 1984.

Front Cover

The cover drawing is a handbill advertising the Electric Telegraph and a line drawing of Telegraph Coverage at Slough, adjacent to the GWR Station. It was the first terminus of the electric telegraph anywhere in the world.

The Telephone comes to Windsor ^(*)	Fred Fuzzens
Roses and Lillies: – the early years of the Clewer Sisters ^(*)	Valerie Bonham
‘Do you know ….?’ ^(*)	Beryl Hedges
The First Aeronauts at Windsor ^(*)	Gordon Cullingham
War Time Election ^(*)	Raymond South
The Brocas Family of Clewer ^(*)	Jean Kirkwood
More ‘Do you know ….?’ ^(*)	Beryl Hedges
The Poor Knights of Windsor – A Modern Recipe ^(*)	Judith Hunter
Excavating at Wraysbury ^(*)	Eric Fitch
The Princess Margaret Royal Free School ^(*)	Joan Toseland
What’s in a Name? ^(*)	Gordon Cullingham

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Do you know …?

Do you know where Windsor’s pawnbroker once was?

In the days before Social Security and Supplementary Benefits, there was a discreet little door off Acre Passage behind where the card shop now is in Peascod Street. When one was temporarily embarrassed for money, Mr. Radnor would be there to appraise carefully the items to be “popped“. He could be seen from the little window onto the passage, but his clients were invisible. The door is now barred and Mr. Radnor’s sliding shutters are not to be seen. But that part of Windsor’s footpath system saw a lot of financial trouble alleviated. It is said that the gentry used the side door and the poor the Peascod Street entrance.