Windlesora 30

Published

Published in 2014.

Saravejo to War^(*)	D Hunt & B Mitchell
A Postcard from Windsor^(*)	S Ashley
It Will Be Over By Christmas^(*)	D Hunt & B Mitchell
King Edward VII Hospital in the War^(*)	E Kupfermann
The Christmas Truce^(*)	D Hunt & B Mitchell
Cadet Reginald Try^(*)	G Try
Upton School House^(*)	J Hancock
The Danger of Banana Fritters^(*)	S Ashley
Caleys^(*)	B Mitchell
The ‘Russian’ Hurricane^(*)	M Locke
Do you know…?^(*)	B Hedges
Victoria Barracks Fountain Memorial^(*)	D Hunt
The King and the Fish^(*)	H Davenport
Sir Francis Tress Barry (1825 – 1907)^(*)	V Batt-Rawden
Hidden History of a Museum Object: A Bronze Ballooning Trophy^(*)	P Quennell
Royal Windsor Website and Forum^(*)	R Cullingham
A Lunatic at Windsor Castle^(*)
Royal Tapestries April 29, 1882^(*)
Obituaries: Hester Davenport^() Kathleen Whelan ^()	B Mitchell Alison Guest’s tribute
WLHG Reviews ^(*)

Articles marked with a ^(*) then the full article available online by clicking the link.

Rear Cover

This card 1s postmarked 5^th October 1914 and shows the Coldstream Guards in Windsor High Street with the Parish Church railings behind. Fred Coles, the writer, has marked himself with a cross, near to the front of the parade, and tells his mother that ‘we may go tomorrow’ or very soon. The 1911 Census shows that he was 16 years old and lived with his family at Puckshipton, near Pewsey in Wiltshire. His father George, aged 43, was a gardener, his mother Emily was 46, and he had a sister Ella Emily, 13, and brother Harold George, 7. At the time of this photograph, the day before he went off to war, Fred was 19.

Susan Ashley

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.

Beryl Hedges

From Windlesora No. 3

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