1973: Hundreds of kids took half in Children’s Book Week at Maidenhead Library – with 600 guests within the first two days.
Various authors took half, speaking to kids and inspiring them to learn extra books.
They included Val Biro, Norman Hunter, Jon Chalon and Jenny Overton.
1978: Cookham’s parish communion service at Holy Trinity Church was adopted by an Act of Remembrance on the warfare memorial within the village, the place wreaths have been laid.
Rev John Grover performed prayers for a congregation which included scouts, guides, cubs and brownies, St John Ambulance cadets and different village organisations.
1983: Cookham Dean landlord Michael Hoy raised his first glass of beaujolais nouveau at The Jolly Farmer pub – having piloted his personal consignment into White Waltham Airfield.
Beaujolais nouveau distributers famously race to get the primary bottles of the wine to totally different markets, and Michael acquired the higher hand after gaining a personal pilot’s licence.
“There must be few landlords who can boast they flew in their own supply,” he stated.
1988: The district council made a ‘dramatic U-turn’ on plans to cease disabled parking in Maidenhead High Street following its pedestrianisation.
Before the choice, Cllr Graham Pratley offered the council with a 1,500-signature petition, signed by members of incapacity teams and most of the people, in favour of offering disabled access within the High Street.
1988: Pupils of Redroofs Theatre School in Bath Road raised £1,000 for the BBC Children in Need attraction with a stage present.
Student Jane O’Mahoney handed over the money on the Wogan present and supported the attraction by singing on Radio
Oxford.
1993: Waltham St Lawrence Parish Church had a brand new dedicated member of the congregation who appreciated to take a seat on the organist’s shoulder throughout choir observe.
Hamble, the black and white cat, had taken up residence on the church and was an everyday worshipper on Sundays.
1998: Children in Need mascot Pudsey Bear turned a rail passenger on his personal specific practice – stopping off at Maidenhead on the way in which.
Pudsey made the journey with Thames Trains from Banbury to Windsor – with BBC Thames Valley broadcasting stay from all of the stations he stopped at alongside the way in which.
