Hungerford Virtual Museum

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Website produced and maintained for the Hungerford Historical Association
by Hugh Pihlens

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A summary of the web pages in the Virtual Museum - click any of them to access directly:

Clocks & Watches
Crested China

Farming & Agriculture

Workhouse Regulations, 1914

Street Furniture

Town Coffer and other Town & Manor artefacts

Trade & Industry

How to Age a Tree

Toads in Hungerford

Great Fire of Hungerford, 1566

Civil War, 1642-51

William of Orange meets the Commissioners of James II at The Bear, 1688
George III's Golden Jubilee, 25th October 1809
Bare Knuckle Fight, 1821
Bare Knuckle Fight, 1827

Agricultural "Swing" Riots, 22nd November 1830

Autumn Manoevres, 1872

Police Murders, 11th Dec 1876

Rural Sports, 11th April 1887

Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 21st June 1887

Charnham Street Floods, November 1894

Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 20th June 1897

Tragic death of Mr Freddie Pratt, Jun 1910

King George V's Visit, 1912

First World War, 1914-18

Army Unit during WWI

War Memorial Dedication, 24th April 1921

Charnham Street Floods, 1932

Hungerford in 1937

Second World War, 1939-45

Pillboxes and Hedgehogs

Steam Rallies on the Common, 1970-78

Victorian Extravaganza, 1992-present

Hungerford Fish Mortality, 1998

A-Z Listing of People

Edward Bushnell

Artists and Painters

Bellmen of Hungerford

Bloomsbury Group

Censuses and Population

Clergy & Teachers

Curates & Assistant Priests

Rev JFC Denning

Clock & Watchmakers

Constables of the Town & Manor of Hungerford
Entertainers

Family History
Famous Visitors - Royalty and Diarists

Landowners & Gentry

Jethro Tull
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster

Sir Robert de Hungerford

Photographers and Publishers

Physicians & Surgeons

Printers & Booksellers

Royal Berkshire Yeomanry

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen

Sir Charles Portal

Sir Anthony Troup

Blacksmiths and Farriers

Boarden Carriage

Bridge Street properties

1 Bridge Street

2 Bridge Street

3 & 3a Bridge Street

4 Bridge Street

5 Bridge Street

6 Bridge Street

7 Bridge Street

7a Bridge Street

8 Bridge Street

9 Bridge Street

10 Bridge Street

11 Bridge Street

12 Bridge Street

13 Bridge Street

4 properties demolished for Canal (west)

3 properties demolished for Canal (east)

14 bridge Street

15 Bridge Street

16 Bridge Street

17 Bridge Street

18-19 Bridge Street

20 Bridge Street

21 Bridge Street

23 Bridge Street

24 Bridge Street

War Memorial Site

Chantry of Blessed Virgin Mary

Chantry of Holy Trinity

Charnham Street properties

1 Charnham Street (Riverside)

2 Charnham Street

3 Charnham Street (Old Fire Station)

4 Charnham Street

5 Charnham Street (Faulknor Square)

Faulknor Square

1 Faulknor Square

2 Faulknor Square

14 Charnham Street

16 Charnham Street

19 Charnham Street

21 Charnham Street

22 Charnham Street

23 Charnham Street

24 Charnham Street

25 Charnham Street

26 Charnham Street

27 Charnham Street

28 Charnham Street

29-30 Charnham Street

31 Charnham Street

32 Charnham Street

39 Charnham Street

41 Charnham Street (Bear Hotel)

Chilton Factory

St. Lawrence, The Croft

Catholic Church, Priory Road

Methodist Church, Bridge Street

United Reform Church, High Street

Avington Norman Church

Ebenezer Chapel, Church Street

Holy Trinity Church, Denford

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Eddington

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Hungerford Newtown

St Mary's, Newtown

Wesleyan Chapel, Charnham Street
Wesleyan Cottage, Hungerford Newtown

St. Saviour's Church, Eddington

"Red Rose" Coffee House

Return of the Gibbet

The Croft (Church Croft)

Croft Hall (formerly Church House)

Eddington House

Hungerford Park

Inglewood House

High Street Properties

1 HS "North End" (Empty & Mistral)

2 HS (YMCA Charity Shop)

3&4 High Street (Tutti Pole Tea Shop)

5 High Street (Althea's & Forget-me-not)

6 High Street (Martin's)

7 & 8 High Street (Martin's and Kitchenmonger)

9 & 9a High Street (Hungerford Butchers & Empty)

1 Church Lane "Library Cottage"

10 High Street (Sugar Mouse)

12 & 13 High Street (Kaleidoscope & Framemakers)

14 High Street (Co-op)

15 High Street (Co-op)

16 High Street "Queen Anne House", (Co-op)

"Hayward's House - A Neglected Celebrity

17 HS (Gourmet Chinese Take-away)

18 HS (Five Star Fruit & Veg)

Demolished for Railway Bridge

19 High Street "Kennet House" (Russell Marshall and Others)

20-22 High Street (Portman, Rayners, Knight Frank)

Town Hall & Corn Exchange

23 High Street (Swift Cleaners)

24 High Street (Hungerford Book Shop and Azuzas)

26 High Street (Antiques Arcade)

28 High Street (CLM Solicitors)

30 High Street (Barclays Bank)

31 High Street "Penny Savings Bank"

32 High Street "Old Methodist Manse

Congregational Chapel

33 High Street "Wilton House"

36-37 High Street

38-39 High Street

41 High Street (Cameo House)

42 High Street "Old National School" (DHC Solicitors)

43-44 High Street (Moonlight Indian & Mr Fry)

45-46 High Street

47-48 High Street (Ellie Dickins Shoes & Church's Undertakers)

49 High Street "Plough House"

50 High Street "Orwell House"

51-52 High Street

53-54 High Street

55-57 High Street

59 High Street (Snippet's Barbers)

60-63 High Street

64-65 High Street

67-69 High Street

70-73 High Street

74-76 High Street

77 High Street (Borough Arms)

78-81 High Street

82-83 High Street

87-88 High Street "Dobbins"

90-93 High Street

97-98 High Street

100-102 High Street

103 High Street

104 High Street

105-106 High Street

107 High Street (Brading Cryer Accountants)

108 High Street

109-110 High Street (Peppermint Cream & Marc Allen)

111 High Street (Roger King Antiques)

112 High Street (The Emporium)

113 High Street (Plume of Feathers)

114 High Street (Nye & Co)

115 High Street (Fare Wise Travel)

116 High Street (Bossom's Needlework)

117 High Street (Three Swans Hotel)

118 High Street (Lloyds TSB)

119 High Street (NatWest)

120 High Street (Red Cross Charity & Hello Flower)

Demolished for Railway Bridge (east)

121 (now 120a) High Street

121-122 High Street (Vacant & Inklings)

124 High Street (Three Cooks)

125 High Street (Boots)

126 High Street (Crown Post office)

127 High Street (Newbury BS, West Berks Council Office, Deep, Stan James)

128 High Street "Faringdon House"

129 High Street (Prospect Charity, Blue Bee Florist)

130 High Street "College House" (PBA Accountants)

131-132 "Bridge House"

Isolation Hospital

Listed Buildings

Marsh Gate properties

Open-air Swimming Pool

Priory of St. John

Roads in Hungerford

Windmills & Water Mills

Something about Vagrants in Berkshire, 1879

Ambulance Service in Hungerford

Archaeological Digs

Berkshire Yeomanry

Caring for the Poor

Clubs and Groups

Cycle Speedway Club

Hungerford Club

Swimming Club (and Open-air Swimming-Pool)

Councils - Parish, RDC and Town

Crescent and Star

Domesday Manors around Hungerford

Fires & Fire-fighting

Fire Service <1890

Fire Service 1890-1910

Fire Service 1910-1924

Fire Service since 1924

Hearth Tax, 1662-1688

Inns & Alehouses

Plume of Feathers

Queen & Constitution

Three Horseshoes

Inventory of Sarah Bell, 1714

Manorial History

Markets & Fairs

Medicine in Hungerford

Start of Organised Medicine

The Early 1900s

District Nursing

The First World War

Between the Wars

Second World War

The Coming of the NHS

The Health Care Team

Telephone System

Victorian Letter Boxes

Chronological List of Schools

Apprenticeships and Educational Charities

Before the 17th Century

Free Grammar School

Mrs Webb's School

John Hives, 25 High Street

Westfield House

Library Cottage

Ann Snook's Day School

129 High Street

Market Place School

Hillside, Salisbury Road

The Manse School, 32 High Streetl

High School (Mr C A Marsh)

Mrs Averill's School, 17 High Street

Miss Booth's School, Church House

Voluntary Schools

National School

British & Foreign Schools

Wesleyan School

Infant National School, Eddington

Hungerford Newtown School

Union Workhouse School

All-age Council School

John of Gaunt School

Croft Nursery School

Educational Trusts

Town & Manor Today

Hocktide & Tutti-Day

Beating the Bounds

Beating the Bounds, 1913

Common & Freeman's Marsh

Hungerford Common

Freeman's Marsh

Hungerford Fishery

Properties attracting Common Rights

Town Clocks & Sun dials

Trade & Industry - the changing patterns

Trade Directories

Turnpike Trusts

Pte Arthur Henry Archard

Capt Edward Dugdale d'Oyley Astley

Pte George Bailey

Pte Henry R Barnes

Pte R Batchelor

Pte W B Bowsher

Pte George Edward Brazener

Pte Herbert Brewer

Stoker Ernest Alfred Bull

Sgt Walter Thomas Bushnell

Capt Charles Kingstone Butler

Pte Sidney George Channon

Pte William Edward Affleck Clements

Lt Roy Cowell-Townshend

Sgt Albert Cook

Lt John Halsted Cortis

Cpl William Henry Earl

Pte Arthur Henry Fairchild

Pte Frank Field

Gnr William Noah Fishlock

Gnr Alfred J Goodman

Pte Stephen Goodall

Stoker William George Grove

Cpl Alfred Herbert Hawkes

Pte Albert E Hill

Capt Maurice Henry Hissey

Pte Ernest Andrews Holmes

Cpl Frederick Louis Hollister

Sgt William John Horne

Pte Joseph Sidney Hunt

Cpl Walter Jenkins

Pte Frank Thomas Knight

AB Ernest Henry Lambourne

Pte Lionel Edward Lambourne

Pte Henry Dolphin Marchant

Tpr Christopher William Matthews

Sgt C W Mepstead

Spr Percy Molland

Pte Joseph Edward Neale

Tpr Frederick John North

Pte Eric Palmer

Pte Henry Parker

Lt Leonard Raine

Tpr Francis Harry Ray

Pte Frederick Charles Rayment

Lt Richard Ivor Richens

Sig (RN) Percy Baron Richens

Sgt Fredrick Rolfe

Pte Charles J Rosier

Gnr Percy George Rosier

Pte Archibald Newton J Salt

Rfn Walter P J Spiro

Pte Edward J Stacey

Pte Sidney Tubb

Pte Albert Edward Vockins

Pte Edgar William Vockins

Pte Fredrick Charles Vockins

Cpl Sidney Vockins

Sgt Robert Valentine Weaving

Pte Frank W Whiting

Pte Francis Williams

Pte Alfred Thomas Wilson

Pte Henry Wilson

Audio Archives
Family History

Alexander Family

Hungerford Family

St. Lawrence Church

Maps & Plans

Papers & Articles

Archeological Dig in The Croft

Kennet & Avon Canal

Talks to the HHA

Transcriptions

Brief History of Hungerford

Links to other sites

Glossary of Historical Terms

Updated: 2.9.2010