We recently received another enquiry in our mail box, spwood.local history@googlemail.com . It came from someone who had recently moved into the Village and wanted to know more about the history of her new home, May’s Cottages in Beech Hill … Continued
As you walk, or drive, through the Village today it’s not always easy to remember that a hundred years ago Spencers Wood was still primarily an agricultural community. It’s true a growing number of residents commuted to Reading to work … Continued
When future generations come to look back on the Coronation weekend there’ll be lots of footage of national events but here is a record of how the Bank Holiday was celebrated in Spencers Wood… The Local History Group joined other … Continued
With Remembrance Sunday approaching, as part of our series on local road names, it seems the appropriate time to recall those who fell in the Great War 1914-18, who are commemorated in some of the road names in the recently … Continued
A colleague noticed that road names have recently been installed on the roads serving the new Stanbury View estate. On the lefthand side of Basingstoke Road as you climb up the hill from Three Mile Cross, the estate is of … Continued
Over the Bank Holiday Weekend some of our members took part in the Swallowfield Show. It was a busy weekend – it was estimated that more than 900 people visited the Art Exhibition and Local History tent over the two … Continued
Group members are involved in work being undertaken by the Parish Council to update their local walks leaflets and two Group members recently took the opportunity to explore what remains of the former RAF flight training base at Shinfield Park. … Continued
Sometimes you find unexpected links between projects. In this case, while researching the history of the Royal Oak as part of our project studying the history of the pubs in Shinfield Parish – on which we are working with Shinfield … Continued
This is the first post – there’ll be another to follow – about the Elisha family in our series about people commemorated in local road names. For those that haven’t come across Elisha Close before, it’s off Beech Hill Road … Continued
