27 May 2010
In 1838, to celebrate Queen Victoria’s coronation there is the first recorded “anvil salute” or “anvil firing”. This entails packing gunpowder into the “hardie hole” at the opposite end to the beak of the anvil and igniting it with a fuse.
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.
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.”
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.
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.