NOSTALGIA: Lead paint fears for nursery play
THE longest serving worker with one of the oldest firms on Slough Trading Estate was waving goodbye to his job making rubber gloves.
Berkshire Bygones: ‘Almighty crash’ as straw hits car
OLD Windsorians women’s rugby squad were looking for new players in 1985, to compete against many of the fledgling 25 teams that had started up in the 1980’s.
Berkshire Bygones: Tanker carrying chemicals crashes
THE Queen’s Guide award is the highest award a guide can attain, but three Slough girls were presented with one each in 1972.
BERKS BYGONES: What made the news in 1973
When a German bomb destroyed his childhood home in North London during the “blitz” of World War Two, Henry Shelford became trapped in the wreckage, and lost his right arm.
BERKS BYGONES: See what made the news in 1995
A FAMILY funday with Shire horses, a fortune teller and a display of vintage cars was part of a big thank you from Iveco Ford, Langley, to their staff and families in 1995.
BYGONES: Miss Iver meets Pinewood’s stars - and more from 1972
The Iver Fair committee arranged for a trip of a lifetime for their newly crowned ‘Miss Iver’, Mary Alexander, to visit the set of the ITV sitcom “Bless This House” in 1972, with a VIP lunch thrown in at nearby Pinewood studios.
What made the news in 1988?
April Fool pranksters put up a spoof ‘twinning’ sign just before anti-nuclear marchers entered the Slough Borough in 1988 suggesting the town was twinned with…Chernobyl.
NOSTALGIA: What made the headlines in your area in 1993?
Queen Victoria was the first patron of the Royal National Institute for the Blind and to celebrate its 125th anniversary in 1993, a ‘big breakfast’ was held at Windsor’s famous waxworks exhibition, ‘Royalty and Empire’ in Windsor.
