History Month Fact 26: Light Works
26 May 2010
Thatcham Electric Light Works is established in 1920 by AH and CG Brown and Charles Gunter, extending the supply around the village.
Facts
History Month Fact 25: The stocks
25 May 2010
The stocks, the whipping-post, the’ cucking-stool, and the pound, came under the purview of the Court. Some of the stocks and the whipping post at Thatcham in the seventeenth century stood apparently near “Ham Mill Bridge.”
History Month Fact 24: Alice Bye
24 May 2010
The earliest of the charities in Thatcham, of which a record is preserved, dates from 1413, in which year Alice Bye grants to the then churchwardens, John Bye and Thomas Bela, and their successors, a messuage called a burgage tenement in Thatcham.
History Month Fact 23: William Austin
23 May 2010
The 1817 enclosure maps show William Austin holding Worthy Field, Crow Field, Prince Field, Pains Down, The Bourne Meadow, and several other fields in Thatcham.
History Month Fact 22: Wyatt’s
22 May 2010
Excavations at Wyatt’s uncovered, below the modern floor, a Victorian floor. Below this a medieval floor was discovered. These indicate that a structure had stood where Wyatt’s once stood for at least the last 800 years or more.