Cippenham

Cippenham Lane

I lived near here, we are looking the other way to the other pic, Dorothy Mutton's Post Office is in the distance. On the right is the elm hedge and bank which bordered the (dry) gravel pit where we played. It was wonderful! A dump for surplus council materials from which we could build camps. The best were the Anderson shelter bits, 1,000's of them! We made long "ghost trains" standing the curved sheets on edge and roofing with flat sheets, we built smoky fires inside, not a good idea in thunderstorms! Of course it's all built on now, Boarlands Close with memories of Mr Horwood's pigs is the only road name I know, he had been groom at Cippenham MANOR ...read more here
Contributed by Dave Hill

On my way to school

This post office was called Muttons. It was run by Dorothy Mutton. I used the store to buy crisps and sweets on my way to Westgate school.
Contributed by paul jarvis

Fishing in the Stream

I remember fishing in the tiny stream next to the Cippenham Pond (to the left of this photo). My brothers Paul, John and me Lynn and our little sister Delia Davies all used to take a fishing net and a glass jam jar and fish in the tiny stream for sticklebacks. This was in the days when children could be children and we were safe, spending hours just fishing. Those were the days.

Lynn Mace (Davies)
Contributed by Lynn Mace

Pub on the green

This is the Barleycorn on the green. This was a turnaround point for the 62 Thames Valley bus to Chalvey and Slough.
Contributed by paul jarvis

Millstream Rd(?)

This is beside the green where rival gangs of kids built and guarded their bonfires on Nov 5th, up on the corner is dads school (the museum has his report card) it was a pig farm when I was a kid! Next to it was the tin tabernacle and oppsite a bungalow where a chap had the key to the sluice to flood the rough part of the green for skating during the winter, in dad's time. Behind the photgraper was (Gt) Aunt Flo's house and behind that Gregory's plum orchard, great scrumping!
Contributed by Dave Hill

My Ancestry

My great grandfather Thomas Peck was born at Cippenham Green in 1844 and his birth was registered by his mother Jane.
Contributed by Monica Peck

The little tin church on the Green

I attended the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints little Church (not Morman) next door to the pig farm when I was 24 years old. Because of the love and friendship I received there, I had the opportunity to come to America as one of the families agreed to sponsor me. Forty-four years later, I still attend the same Church (now called the Community of Christ) in Lima, Ohio.
Contributed by Freda Loeding (Swan)

The Swan

I remember all of the pubs, and especially the Swan as we liked to think it was part of the Swan family. In fact my brother, John, had a special corner dedicated as "Wings Corner". I remember going there as a child and buying crisps from the side door.
Contributed by Freda Loeding (Swan)

The Swan

We were'nt the only family in Cippenham! Bro Pete married Annie Shears who lived in one of those houses next to the pub.
Contributed by Dave Hill

War Memorial

There are 3 Hills on the memorial, but they're only dad's cousins, his father and 2 uncles came back from the trenches. Grandad (another Bill Hill, like dad) was always in the Legion and Gt Uncle Harry (who lived in Chalvey with his sis, Ethel) carried the flag on Remembrance Day. Funny how different generations used different pubs, my grandparents the Kings Head, uncles The Swan and our generation the Barleycorn. There had been another pub but when they were building these 3 the Quakers bought the old one, the Gardeners Arms which was up round the corner, near the Legion, opposite Neville's Farm. c1900 they let it to (gt) granny Godding who moved up from Dorney where she'd been in ...read more here
Contributed by Dave Hill

Westgate Secondary Modern School

This was my senior school and I have to say I loved it. So many memories, too many to mention. Met my husband to be there in the 4th year as we used to call it, now year 11. I remember Mr and Mrs Duggan, Mr Heaton, Mr Good senior and Junior, Mr Borek, Mrs Bates, Miss Dyer, Mr Butcher, Mr Parsons, Miss Tebitt,  Mr Terry Davies, Mr Poole, Mr Argyll, Mr Owen, Mr Cumper, Mr Hackitt, Mrs McGowen etc. Great teachers. Loved sports day, netball, swimming, athletics. English, Cookery, PE, Biology, Music, (I used to sing) History.

Used to walk to school 4 miles every day with friends. I remember when I was about 15 years old it was ...read more here
Contributed by Lynn Mace

Westgate School

I was in the very first class to attend the brand new Westgate School. My class moved from Haymill Annex on Elmshot Lane. We were all so excited. The 1A students were in Mrs. Evans class and was she strict. She ruled with an iron fist and we all learned to be quiet when she walked into the room. My favorite teacher was Mrs. Ramsbottom (the physical education teacher). I loved netball and hockey. It was at Westgate where I learned to play tennis. We used to have a whole afternoon of sports one day a week. The sewing teacher was Mrs. Archer and the Cookery teacher was Mrs. Willis. I ...read more here
Contributed by Freda Loeding (Swan)

Playing Truant From School

I was attending Westgate Secondary Modern School in 1971-2 and one lunchtime the whole class decided not to go back to lessons in the afternoon and go to the bowling alley instead. Some did opt out and went to lessons anyway. But lots of us did go to the bowling alley and I felt so guilty, I never played truant ever again.

I was not very proud of myself and we spent the whole afternoon looking around waiting for our teachers to turn up to tell us off. Not a good idea, and a lesson to be learnt there. The moral of the story: it's not worth it!!! The games were good though!!!
Lynn Mace (nee Davies)
Contributed by Lynn Mace

Lunch time bowling

I worked at Zwicky in Buckingham Avenue and some lunch times my friend Ann and I would have a game of bowling, a light lunch, then back to work.  My brother Frank used to be in one of the bowling teams that played in the evenings.  My friend Jean and I would be up in the bar and would watch the bowling from the viewing windows.
Contributed by Monica Peck

Windsor Lanes and garage

Uncle Phil managed this branch of Hartwells garage after managing the one on the Bath Road next to the White Horse. Before that it had been the site of Rogers (?) watermill, the millpond stretching behind up towards Haymill school and the water passing beneath the railway to Cippenham brook. In the 50's my bro got into the mill via the brook under the railway! The mill wheel was saved (?) for a while it stood in Gergory's field behind the village green. Whilst they were alive aunty Joan and uncle Ken (Kennedy) were trying to preserve it, did they succeed?
Contributed by Dave Hill

Elmshott Lane School

I loved attending this school when Mr. Rackstraw was the headmaster. I have great memories of Mr. Kincaid, Mr. Britnell, Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Turner, Miss Pittam and Ms. Hill (P.E. teachers). Everyone was afraid of Mrs. Brooks. Does anyone remember the air raid shelters they had in the playground?
Contributed by Freda Loeding (Swan)

Cippenham Schools

School on left, Westgate wasn't the only school but it is the only one I never went to. Below was the Primary and Junior, this was the Senior till 1953 when Haymill was built. Whilst building it was Junior but when finished became Senior and me and my bro changed places, this became Junior! Confused? It's a wonder I gotta education, I'd already been to Weston House when it was new (Grandads backed onto it, he'd been gardener at the old Weston House)
Contributed by Dave Hill

Everret's Corner (1)

This the South Est Corner of the junction on the A4 known as Everret's Corner. Just around to the right from this position are some lock-up shops that I remember from the early 1950s which included a Gents Barbers. Further along still was the Essoldo Cinema and Ballroom (known locally as Dollies). Opposite this corner was a row of brick built shops which included a Post Office. The road running North from this junction passed Wichello's the butchers, the community centre and recreation ground (venue for a travelling fair "Traylens" every year), Stanhope Road, under the railway bridge and Burnham GWR station. It joioned to a road wehich was once called Windsor Lane but which ...read more here
Contributed by Patrick Butterly

Everetts Corner - 1958

I was one of the many paper boys and girls that worked for Horslins the newsagent. I would get up a 5:00 am every morning and wait outside in the cold for the papers, magazines and comics to arrive. We used to have to mark up our route and then get out and deliver the papers. I hated doing it during the winter months because it was so cold and dark. I also remember the fish shop and I bought my first Raleigh bike from the bycycle shop with the money I earned from my paper route. I was also an usherette at the Essoldo for a while and was there when it caught fire.
Contributed by Freda Loeding (Swan)

Everret's Corner (2)

This is Everret's Corner approached from the West. The road is the A4 and it is a good distance North of the real Cippenham Village. The main bus-stop for buses coming from Slough was right diagonally opposite the photographer's position. To his left would have been the Bishop Centre (seed merchant and landscaper gardening - Bishop's would later take over the "William Woods" garden centre).
Contributed by Patrick Butterly

Twinches Lane

There was a Twinch, Henry I think, owner of Cippenham MANOR (not Court farm which was nearby) and this was his shortcut, originally. This pic is taken from the footbridge put up for the Girls High School to cross the road to get their buses. The school was sold in the 1960s for housing and retail park, I think Wickes are still there. The bridge was removed in the 1980s? Twinches Lane is on the left, the linked traffic lights part of the Slough Experiment 1953, to limit the traffic to 30mph. The land on the left (of course originally all farmland) was taken over by Nissen huts during the war, an AA battery protecting the trading estate? Squatted in after ...read more here
Contributed by Dave Hill

Bath road

This is closer to Salt Hill than Cippenham.  The road on the left is Twinches Lane, the factory on the right is probably Crane Packing, and the view looks west!
Contributed by Patrick Butterly