Home

Getting the most from Search...

The Search box is at the top-left (or top-right) corner of all pages.

Use it to find topics of your choice, wherever they occur in the Virtual Museum. You may search for names, places, dates - anything!

In addition to single words, this search now recognises phrases (in quotes), which can refine the matches found. Searching "6 High Street" in quotes finds only entries mentioning that address, whilst 6 High Street without quotes finds around 200 entries!

Entering this and that into the search form will return results containing both "this" and "that".

Entering this not that into the search form will return results containing "this" and not "that".

Entering this or that into the search form will return results containing either "this" or "that".

Entering "this and that" (with quotes) into the search form will return results containing the exact phrase "this and that".

Please note that many family names have a variety of spellings, such as Wodham and Woodham, Pearse and Pearce, Clisdel, Clisdale and Clidsdall.

Consider alternative spellings for everything! If you are looking for trades, note that you may find "plumber" often spelt "plummer", or "maltster" spelt "malster" in 18th century documents.

The search is very powerful, but because the Virtual Museum is so large, it can take a few seconds to display results.

Painting of cricket at Hungerfod Park - possibly depicting the Grand Cricket Match of 26-28 Jul 1852. — cricket 06
Painting of cricket at Hungerfod Park - possibly depicting the Grand Cricket Match of 26-28 Jul 1852.

Painting of cricket at Hungerfod Park - possibly depicting the Grand Cricket Match of 26-28 Jul 1852.

"Fire Brigade v Hungerford", 1912 [A Parsons] — cricket 01
"Fire Brigade v Hungerford", 1912 [A Parsons]

"Fire Brigade v Hungerford", 1912 [A Parsons]

Ladies v Gents Cricket, 1913. The Cricket Club, under the captaincy of Rev John Denning, played many local elevens. In August each year there was always good support for the Ladies v Gents match, when the men played with a bat more suitable for rounders than cricket! — cricket 02
Ladies v Gents Cricket, 1913. The Cricket Club, under the captaincy of Rev John Denning, played many local elevens. In August each year there was always good support for the Ladies v Gents match, when the men played with a bat more suitable for rounders than cricket!

Ladies v Gents Cricket, 1913. The Cricket Club, under the captaincy of Rev John Denning, played many local elevens. In August each year there was always good support for the Ladies v Gents match, when the men played with a bat more suitable for rounders than cricket!

"Early v Late Closers", undated [A Parsons] — cricket 03
"Early v Late Closers", undated [A Parsons]

"Early v Late Closers", undated [A Parsons]

Ladies v Gents Cricket, undated — cricket 04 ladies v gents
Ladies v Gents Cricket, undated

Ladies v Gents Cricket, undated

Cricket, undated — cricket 05
Cricket, undated

Cricket, undated

"The Elite", 1911 [A Parsons] — cricket 07 1911
"The Elite", 1911 [A Parsons]

"The Elite", 1911 [A Parsons]

Coronation Cricket Match, 1953, Ladies v Men. (Kindly sent by Muriel Vellender). See adjacent notes by Jack &amp; Margaret Williams — cricket 08 1953 muriel vellender
Coronation Cricket Match, 1953, Ladies v Men. (Kindly sent by Muriel Vellender). See adjacent notes by Jack & Margaret Williams

Coronation Cricket Match, 1953, Ladies v Men. (Kindly sent by Muriel Vellender). See adjacent notes by Jack & Margaret Williams

The Cricket Club pavilion, Aug 2020. — 20200806 Cricket pavilion
The Cricket Club pavilion, Aug 2020.

The Cricket Club pavilion, Aug 2020.

Rev. Denning's Cricket Team, 1892 [R. Langford, 2nd left, back row] (kindly sent by Linden Langford, January 2023). — 18920000 Cricket team-a
Rev. Denning's Cricket Team, 1892 [R. Langford, 2nd left, back row] (kindly sent by Linden Langford, January 2023).

Rev. Denning's Cricket Team, 1892 [R. Langford, 2nd left, back row] (kindly sent by Linden Langford, January 2023).

Powered by Phoca Gallery

The Canal Wharf, Apr 2011 The Canal Wharf, 2011

Hungerford, England, is a market town of about 5,900 people at the Berkshire / Wiltshire border.
Find us

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Can you help?

If you can add new information, or any comment, contribution or correction, please email the Administrator.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Can you donate?

The Hungerford Virtual Museum is run by the Hungerford Historical Association (a not-for-profit organisation). We depend on donations from our readers. If the information provided has been helpful we would appreciate a small donation via credit card, debit card or PayPal, using the secure Donate button below so that we can continue to share information with others. We appreciate any donation you can give and thank you for it.