Crowthorne, Dukes Ride c.1955

Photo ref: C199022

I remember the winter of 1962/63. I was at Crowthorne C of E Primary School at the time and lived in Pinewood Avenue. I used to go home for dinner and I remember the path and road being thick with ice and compacted snow - no gritters then - and lost count of the number of times I fell on my bottom going up or down the hill. To get round it I took to walking through the woods where the snow came over the top of my wellies but I could see all the bird and animal tracks.

My great grandfather, William Willett Wilkinson, his wife, Emily Goddard, my grandmother, Lilian May Wilkinson, and her siblings lived at 130 High Street in Crowthorne, Berks from 1887 to about 1945. I would like to be in touch with anyone that can help with more information about them. William had a cycle shop and at one point a tailors shop in Crowthorne. If anyone knew them or ...see more

I was born in a big house in Ellis Road. It was a warm and cosy home. I remember waking on a cold winters day and the ice would be on the inside of the windows. I would go downstairs and my grandad would have a roaring fire going and my nana would be making breakfast. Grandad worked on the farm just to the back of us - it was over 300 years old I think. I would help him collect the hen eggs and get chased by the geese - Grandad would always save me, such happy days.

My family owned the Victorian pile that incorporated the chemist opposite the Iron Duke. I was born in 1942 at the house (if it's still there) that was built as a wedding present for my parents at the top of the property and moved to the main house when my grandmother died, somewhere around 1945. Myself and my 3 brothers were packed off to boarding schools when we reached 7 so were only around in school ...see more