Windelsora 02

Published

Published in 1983.

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Windelsora 02 (1983)

The cover drawing is The Equestrian Statue of George III in the Long Walk, Windsor Great Park, commonly known as ‘The Copper Horse’. On November 26th, 1783 the Royal Family were amused by a hydrogen balloon filled Professor Argand of Geneva in the garden of Windsor Castle at the request of George III.

Contents

We are pleased to say that all articles from Windelsora 02 are now available online. Due to its popularity, it is now out-of-print and we can no longer a physical copy of it. We do hope to offer a download option in the future.

Editorial (*)Gordon Cullingham
George III and the First Hydrogen Balloons in England (*)Gordon Cullingham
The Windsor, Slough & District Family History Society (*)Barbara Bassil
Excerpt from “The Old Windsor Magazine”, September 1875 (*)Contributed by Beryl Hedges
Recipe – Windsor Soup (*)“The Colonel’s Cookbook”
When the War Came to Spital (*)Valerie Bonham
Memories of Windsor – Number 1, ‘Shopping’ (*)Valerie Batt-Rawden
A Medieval Hearth at Knight’s Close (*)Luke Over
Imperial Service College, Windsor, and its Forerunners (*)Jean Kirkwood
The Dedworth Flying Bomb (*)Pamela Marson
Closed, but not quite – The Guildhall Museum. (*)Judith Hunter
If an article is marked with a (*), then the full article is available online by clicking the link.

Windlesora versus Windelsora

Our first journal was named WINDLESORA, the second WINDELSORA, and readers have queried the change. You can read the explanation in our Windlesora 03 article “What’s in a Name?” which you can access by simply clicking the title. We have kept the name to Windlesora since then.

Editorial

We hope that readers will like our second Local History Journal, and wish to take this opportunity of thanking everyone who purchased a copy of our first issue. Members of the Group are working on items for Number 3 and we are always glad to receive contributions to future editions in the form of articles, letters, notes, and illustrations – old photographs are especially welcome, as are ideas for special items.

WHO CARES ABOUT LOCAL HISTORY?

We think that it is part of our heritage.

Gordon Cullingham, Chairman.

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