Sandhurst
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Maidenhead Town Walk Guide
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Berkshire Pocket Album
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Newbury Living Memories
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- 7 photos on Sandhurst appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Sandhurst
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Sandhurst memories
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grounds of the Royal Military Academy
While I was growing up in Sandhurst, the grounds of the College was open to the public and we could walk from the village of Sandhurst through to Camberley. This building with parade ground in front is famous for the white horse which always entered the building up the steps when the passing out parades had finished. In front of this building are beautiful grounds with a big lake which was often the place to have picnics in the summer, and in winter - if frozen - we would skate over it. Shame now due to security risks etc, that the grounds are closed to the general public. Such a shame - I am glad I have the memories still.
Contributed by Mary Back
childhood memories
This is the street where I was born in 1940, our house is just out of sight, but when I left school in 1955 I worked for a short while in the shop adjoining the post office. Sadly my father, who was in the Army, was posted to Colchester, Essex and so we left Sandhurst in June 1955. But it was a lovely place to grow up in and will always be home to me. I still have family living in the area.
Contributed by Mary Back
wedding day
St Michael's Church, where I was christened in 1940, I was married there in June 1960. A beautiful church set in the countryside just out of the village.
Contributed by Mary Back
Berkshire memories
grounds of the Royal Military Academy
While I was growing up in Sandhurst, the grounds of the College was open to the public and we could walk from the village of Sandhurst through to Camberley. This building with parade ground in front is famous for the white horse which always entered the building up the steps when the passing out parades had finished. In front of this building are beautiful grounds with a big lake which was often the place to have picnics in the summer, and in winter - if frozen - we would skate over it. Shame now due to security risks etc, that the grounds are closed to the general public. Such a shame - I am glad I have the memories still.
A memory of Sandhurst contributed by Mary Back
Extracts From Sandhurst & Berkshire books
Once inside the gate, we can see the main building across
the boating lake. The land was purchased in 1801 for
the grand sum of £8,000 from William Pitt, who had
bought the land from one of his nieces.
An extract from from"Camberley Pocket Album".
This amazing independent brick building is staggering by its sheer size, scale
and style. The chapel is almost Byzantine in design, but its transepts are
reminiscent of Italian Romanesque rather than Byzantine. In 1922, staff officer
Captain A C Martin RE FRIBA conceived the extension; he completed the west
end in 1937. Major General Sir Lionel Stopford, former Commandant before
the war who returned to the college in 1917, suggested Captain Martin. Great
efforts to raise funds were necessary during these lean years after the First
World War. Inside, the sumptuous old apse has mosaics and marble
revetments. The remainder is mostly white and a combination of alabaster and
marble. Sir Hugh Casson’s influence is evident: he designed the stands
containing books of remembrance, and an imaginative and lively organ case,
dating from 1950. This is the third chapel to be built at Sandhurst, and the
second on this site; it has a history which in itself would fill a chapter and
more. The present chapel stands as a living testimony to the devotion of many
thousands of people from every corner of Britain and the former
Commonwealth whose generosity built this inspiring place of worship.
An extract from from"Berkshire Churches Photographic Memories".
On our way back to Camberley we arrive at the Dukes
Head public house. Notice the telegraph poles supplying
the new telephone system to those who could afford it.
An extract from from"Camberley Pocket Album".
Thirteen years before this photograph of Sandhurst was taken, the
village police station was completed in memory of some of Sandhurst’s
older residents. The building was later converted into flats, with the bars
removed from the cell windows.
An extract from from"Berkshire Pocket Album".
Thirteen years before this
photograph of Sandhurst
was taken, the village
police station was
completed in memory of
some of Sandhurst’s
older residents. The
building was later
converted into flats, with
the bars removed from
the cell windows.
An extract from from"Berkshire Photographic Memories".