Tag: Heritage matters

The custom of ringing a curfew bell when everyone should go to bed dates from Alfred the Great. William, I ...

It was Wednesday evening 20th December 1916. After complaints of soldiers getting drunk at the house adjoining “The Rifleman” public ...

As you probably know, Wokingham Town Council (WTC), along with many other historical venues across the country, will be celebrating ...

Holt Copse and Joel Park is, at 9.3 hectares, the largest and most diverse of the 8 parks managed by ...

 During the latter part of the 19th century shift work was increasingly being adopted by companies, resulting in more leisure ...

If you stand in Rose Street, looking towards All Saints Church, it seems as if someone has built a house ...

Tower bells have always been rung for public events, including victories in war. But for centuries the wars themselves had ...

The Rev. George Edward Denis de Vitré (b. 1833) and his wife, Maria Pratt née Ibbetson (b. 1826), came to ...

Have you wandered around Market Place and wondered who occupied the shops before the present owners? Or thought about who ...

As the 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War draws to a close, Emmbrook might be reminded ...