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
Peter Oldridge took photos during the 2007 flood and after the water had subsided
After the flooding on 20 July 2007, damage to the School required the use of temporary classrooms to open the ...
This framed photograph has a caption of THe Street Aldermaston Circa 1920 On inspection and with a bit of research it appears to be an enlargement of a known postcard, the evidence is mainly because the wording at the bottom has been cropped by the enlargement. The wording at the bottom reads: The Street Aldermaston 1 ...
Catalogue record: AH.0108
This letter was handed to the Aldermaston History Group at Pam Gardner's wake in 2017 by her goddaughter Virginia. 1 The 60th Troop Carrier Group arrived at Aldermaston in August 1942 and Lt Col T J Schofield took command of the Group on 11 Oct 1942, about 4 weeks before this letter was written. This letter was ...
Catalogue record: AH.0109
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
Postcard showing Aldermaston Court Righton published a number of postcards around the Newbury area in the early part of the twentieth century.
Catalogue record: AH.0016
Sterling Cable Company Limited was formed in 1948 from the merger of two previous manufacturers, one based in Warrington and ...
The image of the street taken looking north towards the Hinds Head Inn. In the foreground are Brook House on left and the Forge & Pottery on the right.It would have been taken from the middle of the road outside the gates to Kiln House (not seen on right) The photographer was J W Righton of ...
Catalogue record: AH.0128
The postcard of Aldermaston charge can be dated from the post office frank 18-Aug-1905 and from the green halfpenny Edward VII stamp. Edward VII reigned from 22 January 1901 to 6 May 1910
Catalogue record: AH.0126
Many postcards of Aldermaston published in the first few decades of the twentieth century.
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