22 April 2021
Chapel Street, which forms part of the A4, is often overlooked for its history and yet it is full of items from the medieval to the present. Starting from the West (the Broadway) end there are the often forgotten milestone and water pump. Milestones were placed on turnpiked roads and this stretch being turnpiked sometime …
13 February 2021
Welcome to 2021. Our plans for 2021 have already been altered due to Covid-19, an update of our programme is given later. For all the latest events and news please keep checking in regularly to the website, www.thatchamhistoricalsociety.org.uk. From the chair Firstly I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year! I hope …
23 November 2020
We had a talk, online, on the history of the pubs of Thatcham which resulted in a few enquiries and memories. The history of the pubs, as was seen from the talk, a long and sometimes complicated one. The speaker has more detail on his website and we have, with permission, a copy of some …
3 October 2020
On Monday 28th September 2020 Thatcham Historical Society made history of its own by holding their first online speaker meeting. With recent additional restrictions the society decided to suspend all face-to-face meetings until 2021 and as such have gone online. The chair, Dr Nick Young, gave a talk on the history of the Thatcham pubs. …
23 September 2020
A guest post from Ray Hopgood. The intention of this article is not to narrate the causes or events of late 1830 in South West Berkshire which subsequently became known as the “Swing Riots”. These disturbances which had swept across Southern England are more than amply covered by articles on the internet, but especially in …