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Windsor
A year by year account of the town over the last 1000 years with additional information panels and illustrations. A fascinating record of our town's development. Available in all local bookshops or from
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Windlesora No. 1.
Published
in 1982.
Swan Upping; Bachelors' Acre Graveyard; Eton Boys and the River; Brewhouse Gallery, Eton; Windsor Martyrs; 'Thames Fludde' of 1947; The Fascination of Directories. Charles Knight: Excerpt from 'A Working Life', 1864.
Windlesora No. 2.
Published
in 1983.
George III and the first Hydrogen Balloons in England; Windsor, Slough and District Family History Society; When the War came to Spital; Memories of Windsor-Shopping; Medieval Hearth at Knight's Close; Imperial Service College and its Forerunners; Dedworth Flying Bomb; Guildhall Museum.
Windlesora No. 3.
Published
in 1984.
The Telephone comes to Windsor; Early years of the Clewer Sisters; First Aeronauts at Windsor; War-Time Election; Brocas Family of Clewer; Excavation at Wraysbury.
Windlesora No. 4.
Published
in 1985.
Home Guard in Windsor; Burnaby the Great; Digging up one's Family Tree; The Brown Brothers of Windsor, Coach Builders; An old Arithmetic Book; William de Braose and St Leonard's Hermitage; Letter Boxes of Windsor.
Windlesora No. 5.
Published
in 1986.
Origins of the Royal Free Foundation; Roland Errington, the forgotten Rector; How Balloon Meadow Clewer got it's name; The first Eton Porny School; H. G. Wells, Windsor and Maidenhead; Characters from between the Wars; Richard Martin, Innkeeper and Postmaster.
Windlesora No. 6.
Published
in 1987.
Charles Knight; Windsor Post; Four Arthur Vansittarts; Diary of a Stationmaster (S T Maun); Thomas Hardy and All Saints Church; Rhinos and Ruins; Hitler's Rockets; Eton College - a Grammar School for Windsor?
Windlesora No. 7.
Published
in 1988.
The Guildhall Tercentenary; Moody and Sankey in Windsor; S J Stone, Hymn Writer; The Catholic Church in Windsor; Phyllis Reddick, a Memory of Queen Victoria.
Later Editions
by Issue Number/Date
Windlesora No. 8
Published
in 1989. (£1.50)
Samuel Lillycrop, Baptist Minister; Canon Carter and the 'Clewer Case'; Prince Consort Cottages; Some Windsor Memorials; Stained Glass Windows with Windsor Connections.
Windlesora No. 9
Published
in 1990. (£1.50)
Davies of Windsor, Clockmakers; J Gane & Co. of Eton; Old Windsor Cricket, Football & Working Men's Clubs; Who Lived There?; Bier Lane.
Windlesora No. 10
Published
in 1991. (£1.75)
Windsor's Riverside; Poor Little Orphans (St John's Home); Joseph Ryder (tailor and pupil of Alexander Redford); The First United Kingdom Air Mail Delivery; Charles Knight Exhibition; Windsor Steam Laundry; Gardener on the Royal Estate in the 19th Century (J. Morris); Royal Volunteer Review.
Windlesora No. 11
Published
in 1992. (£2.00)
Robert Keayne of Windsor and Massachusetts; Clewer St Stephen's; Fred Fuzzens' early life; Windsor Parish Players; A Schoolboy view of the 1947 Floods; Sophie Elizabeth Marquise d'Harcourt.
Windlesora No. 12
Published
in 1993. (£2.00)
Margaret Oliphant; Cinderella in the Waterloo Chamber; Throwing some light on the Lamplighter (Thomas Cocking); The Chocolate Connection (Caleys); St Augustine's Home, Clewer.
Windlesora No. 13
Published
in 1994. (£2.00)
Windsor Boys' School; Bachelors Acre Tank; Windsor's Saluting Cannons; Princess Christian Hospital; W G Grace and Cumberland Lodge; Clewer Camera Club; Edward Lear at Clewer Green.
Windlesora No. 14
Published
in 1995. (£2.00)
Lord Gowrie VC; Windsor Model Aero Club; The Ken Shepherd Archive; The Thames Towpath Controversy; Dedworth War Memorial (Belford Alexander Wallis Wilson); "Curtain Up"-Theatre Royal Programmes.
Windlesora
No. 15
Published in 1996. (£2.75)
Our Twenty First Birthday Issue Mary 'Perdita' Robinson; Theatre Royal Windsor and the National Trust; William Morris Stained Glass at Dedworth Church; Alice in Wonderland - the Windsor Connection; Two monuments in Windsor Parish Church (Topham Foote and Thomas Reeve); Memoires of the Marquis d'Harcourt; Rise and Fall of the Windsor Bank; Harry Greenwood VC; Problems at Queen Victoria's Funeral.
Windlesora
No. 16
Published in 1997. (£2.75)
Our Pretty, Witty Nell (Gwyn); Edward Matthew Ward RA; The Children's Tragedy; Perambulations of the Parish Boundary 1801; White Bus to Winkfield; Old Windsor Carnival; The Apothecary's Token 1666; Pennyroyal Almshouses.
Windlesora
No. 17
Published in 1998. (£2.75)
Market Cross House; Who Tried to Kill Lady Florence Dixie?; Esther Sheridan; Windsor Deceived (Windsor's Hospitals under the NHS); The Beautiful Lady Waldegrave; Lady Florence Paget; From Workhouse to Mansion; Living in the Shadow of Eton College; A Suffragette Attack; The Windsor Chair; Oliver Brooks VC; Congregationalism in Windsor - The Beginnings.
Windlesora
No. 18
Published in 1999. (£2.75)
The Year
2000; Passage
of a Working Life; St John the Baptist Church
New Windsor; The
Creators of the Dioramas; St Peter's School,
Old Windsor; New
Volunteer at the Royal Borough Museum Collection; Denman
and Goddard; Michael
Goddard; Mrs
Horace Dodge and St Leonard's Mansion;
Eton
Wick; The
Reverend Arthur Robins MA; The Copper Horse
- Debunking a Myth; Obituary - Gordon Cullingham
Windlesora
No. 19
Published in 2002. (£3.00)
The Queen's Silver Jubilee, Patchwork of Memories, Cliff Richard was at my home!, Jubilees that might have been, The Absent King - George III, Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, Records of Jubilation, Sixty Years a Queen, Porta Victoriana, Keppel Terrace, My Early Life in Windsor, Memories of Wartime and VE Day, Leading Councillors in the 19thC, Obituary: Ray South
Windlesora
No. 20
Published in 2003. (£3.00)
Articles with a 1950s theme throughout include:
The First Windsor
- Rediscovered in the 1950s, Recollections
of The Funeral of George VI, Windsor's
Court, Clewer
in the 1950s, Windsor
District Trefoil Guild, Dedworth
in the 1950s, The
Royal Borough's Glory Days Project (Memories of the 1950s),
Peascod Street in 1907,
Sugar Ray Robinson 1951,
Boy Soldier - Ray Mitchell,
Vale Road Clinic 1955,
George Street - Vanished,
Clarence Road Secondary
School
and other stories from Windsor in the 1950s
Subsequent
issues not listed.
Some More Histories
of Windsor
Community of St John the
Baptist, Windsor.
A Trilogy
A Joyous Service
This is the first major history of the Clewer Sisters and the Community of St John the Baptist, Windsor, UK.
A Place in Life
The second in the trilogy of the Clewer Sisters and the Community of St John the Baptist, Windsor, UK.
Sisters of the Raj
A thoroughly researched history of the Clewer Sisters and their work in India during the Raj.
The Harcourt Journals
The Memoirs and Diaries of Sophie and Amedee d'Harcourt, St. Leonards Hill, Windsor. Translated and abridged by Sheila and Pat Rooney.
A Y Nutt of Windsor Castle
Architect and Surveyor at Windsor Castle and Custodian of the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore in Victorian times, this book describes A Y Nutt's work and commissions for the Royal Family through 40 years.
Selected Book
and Video Reviews
The following reviews have appeared in Windlesora magazine, as noted. The links will take you through to a fuller description of each book.
- A. Y. Nutt. Windlesora 16
- Buildings of Old Windsor. Windlesora 18
- Cumberland Lodge. Windlesora 8
- Edward Lear. Clewer. Windlesora 13
- Fires of Windsor Castle. Windlesora 12
- FJ Camm 1895-1959. Windlesora 15
- Harcourt Journals, The. Windlesora 17
- History of Berkshire. Windlesora 15
- Jennings Yard. W. 12
- Joyous Service. Windlesora 8
- Place in Life. Windlesora 11
- Royal Landscape. Windlesora 16
- Royal Stained Glass Works. 12
- Search of Herne the Hunter. 15
- Sisters of the Raj. Windlesora 16
- St. Leonard's Hill. Windlesora 11
- Story. St. Stephen's Col. W. 13
- Unknown Taplow. Windlesora 7
- Victorian childhood. Windlesora 9
- Windsor, Town & Castle. Windlesora 9
- Windsor, A Journey Through Time. Windlesora 17 (VIDEO)
- Writers in Windsor. Windlesora 15