Windlesora 26

Published

Published in 2010.

Front Cover

Windlesora 26 (2010)

The picture on the front cover is from the Illustrated London News and shows Queen Victoria watching while ‘Lord’ George Sanger’s Circus paraded through Windsor on 17 July 1899. The circus had come to town by Royal Command of the Queen.

Contents

The Circus comes to Town
– 200 Years of the Circus in Windsor (*)		Geoffrey Try
‘I saved the Train’
– Heroism on the Windsor Express (*)		Hester Davenport
Who Do You Think You Are?
– The Life and Times of James Thomas Bedborough (*)		Elias Kupfermann
The Notorious Mrs. Elizabeth Bedborough (*)Brigitte Mitchell
Townswomen in Windsor (*)Barbara Mitch
The Gwyn Inheritance: continued (*)Avon Edward Foote
Fire! (*)Hester Davenport
Tragedy at Windsor Theatre (*)Hester Davenport
Attempted Assassination
– of Queen Victoria in Windsor in 1882 (*)		Brigitte Mitchell
AY Nutt
– Artist and Architect (*)		Norman Oxley
Windsor’s First Woman Mayor
– Mrs. Florence Mary Carteret Carey (*)		Pamela Marson
Words of Comfort from the Front during the First World War (*)Keith Moore
Brigitte Mitchell
Mystery at Oakley Green? (*)John Batt Rawden
Drowned at Sea: Owen George Allum
– Victim of the Titanic Disaster 1912 (*)		Elias Kupfermann
When the Windsor Girls’ School went on the Record (*)Jacqui O’Brien
Vignettes from the Windsor Express (*)Brigitte Mitchell
Beaumont at Old Windsor (*)Margaret Gilson
Hadleigh House and Clifford Lodge
– Two Jewels in Windsor’s Historic Treasury (*)		Hadleigh House and Clifford Lodge
– Two Jewels in Windsor’s Historic Treasury
Articles marked with a (*) then the full article available online by clicking the link.

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