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Buckinghamshire History Festival
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2020
Join us from 12 September 2020 as we connect you with local stories and hidden histories from further afield, through video talks, recorded specially for Buckinghamshire History Festival during lockdown. There's a little something for everyone, including families - find out more about our fantastic line up on our what’s on page: buckshistoryfestival.co.uk/whats-on/
Buckinghamshire Quakers in West New Jersey, in the 17th century
Ann Flood talks us through her research into the early Quaker settlers in America, who had roots in Buckinghamshire.
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Are you a #ConservationWin-ner? Questions
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Sam Joiner has an amazing job: she is the Conservator looking after the collections at Buckinghamshire Archives. Here she sets you six questions about all things archival.
I HEART MK 2006
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A film by Lindsay Knight. Knight documents the skateboarding community in Milton Keynes at a time of change. Not for profit.
An introduction to I Heart MK
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For Buckinghamshire History Festival 2020, Filmmaker Lindsay Knight sets his iconic film I Heart MK into the context in which he made it.
Adrian Tinniswood: The Verneys; Love, War and Madness in 17th Century England
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Adrian joins us to discuss his 2007 on the Verneys, a north Buckinghamshire dynasty dating back hundreds of years. The Verneys are perhaps better known these days for their links to Florence Nightingale and her time spent at their estate in Claydon. However, Adrian’s talk takes us further back to discover the, by turn, volatile, heroic, and always outrageous Verneys of the 17th Century - speaki...
Sarah Charlton: The Carrington Scrapbook
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In her video and presentation, Sarah takes us through the recently catalogued Carrington scrapbook. Compiled throughout the 19th Century, it’s a fascinating insight to life in High Wycombe through the eyes of the wealthy Carington family. In a talk which is very much an insight into the works of an archivist, as well as a record of life in Victorian Buckinghamshire, Sarah displays carefully pre...
Gillian Polding: Connecting Children to History Through Fiction
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Gillian Polding, Area Manager for Children and Young People for Buckinghamshire Libraries, talks about how to engage children and young people in history through fun, storytelling, and a little toilet humour. Using Michael Foreman's War Boy as an example, Gillian relates stories of evacuation that will pique the interest of young minds. With thanks to Pavilion Children's Books, and Michael Fore...
Jane Robinson: Ladies Can't Climb Ladders
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Jane joins us to discuss her book 'Ladies Can't Climb Ladders' in this video talk, filmed exclusively for Buckinghamshire Virtual History Festival. In an evocative talk, enhanced by imagery, we hear the stories of the pioneering women of the 20th Century who made it in the fields of law, architecture, engineering, and medicine - often at a personal cost. Image refs: Ray Strachy, © National Port...
Judi McGinley: In The Garb Of A Quaker - The Trial of John Tawell
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In her talk, ‘In the Garb of a Quaker’: The Trial of John Tawell, Judi delves into the unsavoury life of John Tawell, who was hanged for the murder of his mistress, Sarah Hart, in 1845. While the case is well known due to its many quirky factors - it was, for instance, a case which forever embarrassed Tawell’s renowned defence lawyer because of his suggestion the victim died from ingesting too ...
Jaye Isherwood - Making Modern Britain: Slough Trading Estate
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In her documentary-style talk, Making Modern Britain: Slough Industrial Estate, Jaye presents a wealth of knowledge on the industrialisation of Slough at the end of the First World War, as she narrates over a series of atmospheric archival photographs of the people, buildings, and industries that have passed through the estate over the last 100 years.
Draw along with Martin Brown, Illustrator
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In his video exclusively for the Buckinghamshire History Festival, Martin not only draws, but regales us with grimy tales of body lice, and poop-tastic Aylesbury Ducks, and champions the plight of lesser spotted animals. Kids - big and small - can learn to master the art of drawing, while picking up lots of animal facts along the way. Creative and funny fun for everyone!
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First worked at Coopers Mechanical Joints in 1969. At 5pm the streets and roads were full of people, so much so that it looked like a Giant Ants Nest. Thats when it really was a manufacturing Trading Estate. Now all the family firms have gone, replaced by computer technology and minimim staff.
Modern Slough compared to its past is very surprising
Used to cross the Estate each day on the way to school (Britwell to Cippenham) My first paper round was delivering on the Estate to the likes of High Duty Alloys and taught to swim at Slough Community Centre Pool. Worked at Ian Ross Castings and VitaTex.
Thanks, Judi! One minor point, and certainly not intended as a criticism of an excellent presentation; the Slough policeman’s telegraph stated, “ ... in the garb of a kwaker.” Like you said, the telegraph was in its infancy and some letters were missing on some early models. On this one a Q was missing and had to be represented by substituting a K. Even then, at the other end, at Paddington Station, they had to send back for explanation of the word, ‘kwaker.’ But eventually, they were satisfied and as you pointed out he was watched until being apprehended the next afternoon at around 13:00. It would appear that the Victorian era certainly had a grisly underbelly, but then again, people never change. It’s just the times that do.
Thank you for sharing this as a youngster I remember cycling along from the burnham end passing the wagon wheel factory then the shoe factory and finally that sickly smell from Mars a combination of smells as you went from one end of the estate to the other My Late farther worked at Tretol's on Edinburgh Avenue and I remember the little steam engines that run up and down but a great video of happy memories.
Sound quality too bad to make out what the speaker is saying...
Brilliant - I have the Trading Estate Railway book some years ago. If this gets through to Jaye Isherwood are there any more 1960s - 70s photos especially areas near what was Taylor Stainless Metals, who I worked for back in mid 1960s, Franklin Rubber, who my late ex wife worked for after leaving school in office, and does anyone remember Len Gillians (partner/wife Ivy Cox) lived Dedworth Green, who, I believe gave me a copy of the Trading Estate Railway Book and would have had a connection with the Railway System 1950s-70s. Many thanks. I have ReTweeted this on my channel on Twitter /OAK77uk would appreciate any updates as I now live in Somerset and am happy to help if I can from a distance. Michael Dixon
i worked at bestobell aviation in the mid seventies till early eighties in the psd dept wonder if anyone i worked with has seen this video
Excellent film, and I'm old enough that it brings back a few memories. As a primary school kid, I learnt to swim (after a fashion) in that pool in the Social Centre and got by 10 yard certification in what must have been around 1964. In 1966 I went to what was then called Slough Technical High School (now Herschel Grammar) on Northampton Avenue behind the community centre. Whilst it followed the practice of using place names, it runs North-South connecting with a junction with Whitby Road which runs East-West. That's opposite to the convention of the estate proper. There are others very nearby (Sheffield Road and Melbourne Avenue) that also buck the system. However, most other roads to the east of Farnham Road, like Belfast Avenue and Gloucester Avenue, Warwick Avenue and many others do respect the system. I also clearly remember the tank engines on the estate railway still running albeit finally reduced to trundling tankers of oil to the power station before closing down in 1973. ***** Just an update. Showing this to my mother, who was born in 1931 and worked on Slough Trading Estate after WW II, she suddenly exclaimed "that's me; I've got that photo somewhere". She's standing on the far right of the picture at @18:36.
Very good film, I agree it was and is an amazing place.
Wonderful Adrian!! I so enjoyed this! I laughed and nearly got choked up a few times! Thank you so much! I can see how deeply satisfying it must have been to research and write this fantastic book, and I for one am very grateful! It makes me wonder what other stories are out there, waiting to be uncovered!!
Fantastic work by men like Sir Noel Mobbs developing such an awesome industrial estate