EAW029471 ENGLAND (1950). Cippenham Lane, the Slough Trading Estate and environs, Slough, from the south, 1950

Possible Bofors Tower?

Air Raid Shelters e70979

This building was the home of A.P. Films who produced the puppet series Thunderbirds and Supercar. I used to peek through the gap in the emergency fire doors and see the puppets hanging up inside. Grey-painted polystyrene "rocks" could be found lying around the building. Sylvia Anderson had a Sunbeam Alpine which she had painted pink to match Lady Penelope's car.

Known locally as "John's Shed". Home to various haulage companies including one called Janes which operated tipper lorries. For some years it was also used as the overnight garage for the "Blue Bus" which used to run across Dorney Common and through Eton Wick to Slough before repeating its circular route.

Market Garden run by Mr Artiss.

Home of Mr and Mrs Griffiths in the fifties. They bred Cocker Spaniels.

In the fifties, this was Johnson's Stores, a grocer's shop which later changed ownership and became Vincent's stores

Eddie's cafe before changing to Barton's cafe. A popular haunt for rockers on motorbikes in the early sixties. Now all gone replaced by a Mercedes Garage.

My old house in STAFFORD AVE, number 177. 1952 to mid 60s.

St Helens Cable & Rubber

Weston House school building, I went there when it was new, they have since built them a new school as part of Windsor Meadows, they let vandals burn this down and this allowed them to build more houses

Alloments where KFC is now?

Bare steelwork of what had been a barn for storing horse drawn dustcarts (the household rubbish had been dumped in the 20's on the far side of horwoods field in old dry gravel pit) the barn had burnt out some time

originally an isolation hospital at this time a nurses hostel for cliveden

Aspro's sports ground

Cippenham Lane/ Dorothy Muttons Post Office

Spring lane/Lower Cippenham Lane

8 Ivy Cres, I lived there 25 years only sold in 1990's can almost see myself in garden, I'd be 7

Horwoods smallholding, pigs hens etc, their bungalow at th corner

These are unused anderson shelter bits, we made huge camps of them! They are in an old dry gravel pit used as a council "dump" for odd building materials