Published
Published in 1986.
Front Cover
The cover design is The ‘Free’ or ‘Charity’ Schools, St Albans Street, Windsor.
Contents
| The Origins of the Royal Free Foundation: – An XVIII Century Who’s Who? (*) | John R. Townend |
| Commemorating Sir Sidney Camm (*) | |
| Roland Errington: – The Forgotten Rector (*) | Valerie Bonham |
| How Balloon Meadow, Clewer got its name: – More Aerial History (*) | Gordon Cullingham |
| The First Eton Porny School (*) | Selina Ballance |
| HG Wells, Windsor, and Maidenhead (*) | Eric L Fitch |
| Book Review – ‘Heights and Depths: Labour in Windsor‘ by Raymond South (*) | Valerie Bonham |
| Characters I Remember From Between the Wars (*) | Fred Fuzzens |
| Richard Martin, Innkeeper, and Postmaster (*) | Judith Hunter |
Back Cover
Book Review
‘Heights and Depths: Labour in Windsor‘ by Raymond South
Published by author 1985.
Since retiring in 1968 as Deputy Headmaster at Windsor Grammar School, Raymond South has been a prolific writer of local history, but he has long desired to write a history of the Labour Party in Windsor. He has now done so after much painstaking research, combined with total dedication to a cause which he has long espoused.
Raymond South first became a Party worker as a boy of fifteen; he came to Windsor in 1930, joined the local Party five years later, and was Constituency Party Secretary from 1936-45 and 1983-84. He was a member of Windsor Borough Council from 1945-74.
Labour in Windsor began in the disillusioned aftermath of World War I, and the story of those early years is told by Eric Maxwell, founder member and first Secretary of the Windsor Labour Party. The rest of the book is Raymond’s and he combines both personal memories with material gleaned from the extensive archives discovered in the loft of the Labour Hall in St. Leonard’s Road.
Political subjects can make dull reading for those who are not so minded, but this particular book is ‘alive’ with people. It is an immensely personal book; a testimony to the endeavours of many dedicated Windsorians both living and departed. But it also weaves the story of the local Party into the tapestry of the national Labour Movement.
The title is well chosen, for although Windsor may not readily suggest itself as a Labour stronghold, yet there have been victories as this book shows. This slim paperback has a pleasing appearance with clear easy to read print, and 26 well chosen illustrations within the text.
Valerie Bonham
Windsor Local History Group 