Retro
Life was all peaches and cream
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IT WAS on the afternoon of Good Friday that I decided to take a walk along The Warren in Caversham, despite the hail showers.
By chance, in St Peter’s churchyard, I met a friend who wanted to show me a wall, just past the churchyard, where The Warren goes down a slight slope towards some boat-houses.
Calling time on pub photo mystery
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IS THIS your local? All I can make out from the signboards is that it served Simonds’ ales and stout – the hop leaf design on the hanging sign is unmistakable.
Church picture is a shadow of drawings
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THE architect’s drawing in 1933 of a very large and ambitious church and school in Lower Whitley, for the Methodists, published in this column on March 27, has brought in some interesting information, and a photograph.
THE cataloguing of the library’s collection of local illustrations has now reached Pangbourne, and the Church of St James the Less.
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New Euro helicopter for air ambulance
IS IT a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s the new air ambulance helicopter.
A FREE summer concert by the Beenham Band takes place tomorrow night[18] at 7.30pm in the village’s recreation ground.
THE NATIONAL Childbirth Trust is hosting a tea party for cheeky monkeys this Saturday[19] at Emmer Green Youth and Community Centre.




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