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A pocketful of wonder
In December it is not uncommon to purchase a diary for the following year.
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All aboard your highnesses!
Amongst the archives at the BRO we have a wonderful little notebook from 1941 containing ...
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A Scrap of History
The Women's Institute celebrated its Centenary in 2015, but back in 1965 it celebrated its ...
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Rugby excellence in the 1920s
BRO has a local rugby fixture list which comes from Courtenay Lodge School in Sutton ...
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Leisure as nature intended
The Berkshire Sun and Leisure Club was a naturist society founded in 1976.
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Sight seeing at war?
An 1815 journal belonging to Lieutenant Edward Green reveals some startling contrasts between fighting and ...
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Nice day for a drive
War-time petrol shortages meant more and more people resorted to using horse drawn carriages as ...
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Victory in Europe!
The Germans finally surrendered on 7 May 1945 bringing an end to the Second World ...
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Send me back to prison!
Edwin Price had been sent to Moulsford Asylum following an attempted suicide at Reading Prison ...
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