Looking north along The Street, Aldermaston on Friday 7 July, the day after the flood.
Catalogue record: AH.0070
Looking south along The Street, Aldermaston on Friday 7 July, the day after the flood.
Catalogue record: AH.0069
Press cutting dated 10 7 1989 with details of flooding in Aldermaston
Catalogue record: AH.0078
Stone plaque showing date of original construction 1706 and date of restoration 1924 of this pair of almshouses.
Catalogue record: AH.0043
Looking west along Church Road, showing the collapsed wall, on Friday 7th July the day after the flood.
Catalogue record: AH.0071
Looking south from Church Road into Aldermaston Court grounds through the gap in the wall.
Catalogue record: AH.0072
Stone plaque showing date of original construction 1706 and date of restoration 1906 of this pair of almshouses.
Catalogue record: AH.0042
Press cutting from Basingstoke Gazette, 23 July 2007, showing children and staff being evacuated by boat from Aldermaston School
Catalogue record: AH.0110
Press cutting from Reading Chronicle, 16 August 2007, covering the repair work needed for Aldermaston School
Catalogue record: AH.0112
Portacabin delivery on 30 August 2007 to Aldermaston School to provide temporary classrooms after the flooding
Catalogue record: AH.0115
An aerial view of Aldermaston School, showing the temporary classrooms installed
Catalogue record: AH.0117
Photos of the 20 July 2007 flood, and comparisons after the flood had subsided.
Catalogue record: AH.0118
The sawbench used to shape willow clefts for making cricket bats. Stuart Surridge woodyard, Fishermans Lane Aldermaston.
Catalogue record: AH.0125
Splitting willow for cricket bats
Catalogue record: AH.0120
Press cutting from Reading Evening Post dated Friday February 27, 1987 featuring Graham Gooch's visit to the Stuart Surridge run Aldermaston willow woodyard, where cricket bat clefts were cut and stored.
Catalogue record: AH.0121
Willow trunks being delivered to the Stuart Surridge woodyard in Fishermans Lane, to be cut to length and split into clefts for making into cricket bats.
Catalogue record: AH.0123
David Luker posing with two freshly split willow clefts, as part of the production of cricket bats for Stuart Surridge
Catalogue record: AH.0122
Split willow clefts for cricket bats in the foreground. The sawn shaped clefts in the background are stacked to dry and season. Stuart Surridge woodyard, Fishermans Lane, Aldermaston.
Catalogue record: AH.0124
David Luker felling a willow off Fishermans Lane Aldermaston, for use in cricket bats
Catalogue record: AH.0119
Press cutting from Newbury Weekly News 25/1/1990, reporting that Newbury District Council has received a report on the July 1989 flood, but has no plans to spend public money on alleviation works.
Catalogue record: AH.0074
View from the main body of the church. Some colouring can still be seen- originally the tomb would have been richly decorated. The inscription running along the top rim (surprisingly for this period in English except for Latin dates) as recorded by Charles Keyser in 1893 reads: Here lieth Sir george forster knyght son and heyre ...
Catalogue record: AH.0150
Photo taken before April 1896, westwards. Note the plastered ceiling, now boarded.
Catalogue record: AH.0132
Detail 13 from the Index: a dog tugs at Lady Elizabeth's robe.
Catalogue record: AH.0143
Image 04 on the Index. Taken during a rehearsal of Aldermaston's York Nativity Play with a "knight" passing the tomb.
Catalogue record: AH.0149