The Stage Coach Era

Stage coaches used to carry people on longer journeys along the Bath Road and Brian returned to tell us about this way of travelling

The Vyne

The Vyne, Sherborne St. John - the National Trust 16th century house and grounds with its Tudor Chapel

The Wargrave News

The Wargrave News will be 30 years old this year and Tony, who has been involved in its editing and managament, told us of the history and development of our 'village newspaper'

Caversham Park

Two representatives from BBC Monitoring told us about the history of this large imposing house overlooking the Thames and the work of their unit there

Secrets from the Depths

Jill Greenaway, from the Museum of Reading told us about items from the Thames water collection

The Annual General Meeting - 2008

The AGM - a small amount of business followed by 'an item of special local interest' - a first view of some of the Postcards from The Bird Collection

Victorian Earley

In another of our series about the communities around Wargrave, Joan talked about the area that is now modern housing, as it was in the 19th Century

History of English Furniture

David is an experienced cabinet maker, who specialises in restoring English furniture and he told us about this, illustrated by examples he has worked on

Christmas Party - 2007

Christmas get-together

Wokingham's Town Halls

The present town hall in Wokingham is not the first and Trevor told us about the history of the earlier building as well as the present one

Sheeplands Farm and Farm Shop

Pam told us about the development of the farm and the farm shop, which have been part of the village for 44 and 26 years respectively

Policing the Village

Cameron was our village policeman in the 1950s and 1960s and shared his memories which are an interesting comparison with the present day