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Early public services and buildings by Maxwell Fraser
 
   
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Brief Description: Chapter 12 of the History of Slough by Maxwell Fraser takes you through the history of the everday services that we enjoy today, such as the police, electricity and libraries.
Subject Date: 01/01/0900 - 31/12/1973
Creator: Maxwell Fraser
Article: Chapter 12: Early public services and buildings
Publication: The history of Slough
Publisher: Slough Corporation
Owner: Slough Library
Contributor: Slough Library
 
Full Description: The history of Slough by Maxwell Fraser was originally a series of articles that appeared in the Slough Observer. In 1973 Fraser combined her articles, together with some other research, and produced the History of Slough. This article is a chapter from the second edition of her book which was published in 1980. It has been reproduces by permission of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales and with the blessing of the Slough Observer and the Slough & District Civic Society.
 
Collection: Maxwell Fraser Collection
Place: Slough ; Bath ; Colnbrook ; Maidenhead ; Bath Road ; Bristol ; Chalvey ; Chandos Street ; Slough High Street ; Mackenzie Street ; Stoke Road ; Twyford ; Upton Road Upton Lane ; Uxbridge Road ; Albert Street ; Chalvey ; Slough High Street ; Langley ; Mid
Dimensions: 21 x 29.7 cm
Subject: Buildings ; Public services ; Churchwardens ; Stagecoaches ; Pubs and inns ; Roads ; Turnpikes ; Stagecoaches ; Postal Services ; stagecoaches ; Public Services ; Churchwardens ; Highwaymen ; Pubs and inns ; Poor relief ; poor laws ; Poor relief ; poor laws ; Poor relief ; poor laws ; Post Offices ; Railways ; Churches ; Poor relief ; poor laws ; Royalty ; Pubs and inns ; Murders ; Pubs and inns ; Stations ; Pubs and inns ; Waterworks ; Fire Services ; Fires ; Pubs and inns ; Newspapers ; Fires ; Great Britain Army ; Hospitals
Name Subject: Colnbrook Turnpike Trust ; Cranford Bridge ; Foden Steam Wagons ; Highway Acts ; Lad Lane London ; Major Michael Lee ; Local Government Board ; Maidenhead Bridge ; monks of Merton Priory ; Milestones ; Peggy Bedford Hotel ; Highway Act of Philip and Mary ; Poyle Road ; Colnbrook Turnpike Pumps ; St. Bernard's Convent ; Swan with Two Necks Inn London ; William I William The Conqueror ; Buckingham Place ; Colnbrook Post Office ; Thomas Doddrell ; Eton Fire Brigade ; Sir Rowland Hill ; Luff family ; Charles Luff ; Henry James Lufff ; Mrs. Maria Luff ; Thomas Luff ; Overseers of the Poor ; Gilbert's Poor Law ; Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) ; Public Hall ; Queensmere ; Great Western Railway ; Parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey Vestry ; White Hart Inn White Hart Hotel ; Mr. Whitfield ; Eton Union Workhouse ; Princess Helen of Waldbeck ; Duchess of Albany ; William Chandler ; Public Hall Clock ; James Elliman ; Gaius Foskett ; Friendly Societies ; Leopold Institute ; Prince Leopold Duke of Albany ; Mechanics' Institute ; Northcote of Upton Court and Upton Lea ; Bishops of Oxford ; Rev. Pownoll W. Phipps ; Public Hall ; Public Hall Clock ; Queensmere ; St.Andrew's Chapel ; Mr. Sinkins ; Upton Hospital ; Queen Victoria ; Howard Henry Howard Vyse ; Windsor & Eton Church Union ; Eton Union Workhouse Chapel ; Master of Eton Union Workhouse ; Slough Gas & Coke Co. Ltd. ; Slough Gas &: Coke Co. Ltd. ; Billiard Hall ; British Restaurant ; Cheapside Lane Denham ; Crown Inn ; Crown Hotel ; Crown Hotel ; North Thames Gas Board ; North Thames Gas Board Works ; Hampton Gardens Chandos Street ; James Heme ; Ephraim Holt ; Magistrates' Court ; Mechanics' Institute ; North Sea Gas ; Bucks Petty Sessions ; Police Station ; Queensmere ; Salt Hill murder ; Slough Borough Council ; John Tawell ; Superintendent John Dunham ; Buckinghamshire Constabulary ; Murders at Denham ; Marshall family of Denham ; Police Force ; Black Boy Inn ; Hampden Chalk ; Victor Clark ; James Alfred Dunham ; The Stolen Fountain ; John Jones ; Police Station ; Mrs. Ann Reville ; Hezekiah Reville ; St. Mary’s Church Slough churchyard ; St. Mary’s Church Slough epitaphs ; Mme Tussauds ; Bray's Telescopic Fire Escape ; J. Baker ; A. Bateman ; E.J. Coleman ; Slough Education Department ; Elliman family ; benefactions of James Elliman ; Gilbert & Sullivan operas ; J. Harris ; Iolanthe by Gilbert & Sullivan ; Jordan's Bootshop ; A.H. Kennedy ; Local Government Board ; Magistrates' Court Rooms ; Mechanics' Institute ; Metropolitan Fire Brigade ; Middle Thames Water Board ; Oakley House ; Oakley Hall ; G.W.R. Police Force ; Police Station ; Thames Valley Police ; Police Villas ; Public Hall ; Telegraph Superintendent ; Royal Hotel ; L.A.E.Shadwell ; Mrs. Shadwell ; Shand & Mason ; Captain Shaw ; Slough Education Department ; Slough Urban District Council ; C.R. Spagnoletti ; Sunnyside Sussex Place ; National Telephone Company ; Thames Valley Police ; A. Turner ; Slough Urban District Council ; Vallis Yard ; Queen Victoria ; Middle Thames Water Board ; Kenneth Allsop ; British Broadcasting Company ; Bryce White's Timber Yard ; Stanley Bonnett ; Buckingham Gardens ; Daily Mirror ; Slough & Datchet Electric Supply Co. ; Metropolitan Electric Supply Co. ; Southern Electricity Board ; Eton Rural District ; Evening Mail ; Alan Gordon ; Edward Jesse ; Charles Knight ; Frank Lawrance ; Frank Lawrance Slough Observer Ltd. ; Mrs. Kathleen Lawrance ; Peter John Lawrance ; Charles Luff ; Edmund Luff ; Mackenzie Street ; Douglas May ; Richard Oxley ; Robert Parkin ; Public Hall ; St. Mary’s Church Slough ; Slough Express ; Slough Newspapers Ltd. ; Slough Observer ; Slough Urban District Council ; Slough & Datchet Electricity Supply Co. ; Southern Electricity Board ; Thomson Group ; Trading Estate Fire ; Slough Urban District Council ; Westminster Press Group ; Windsor Express ; Willy Wolff ; Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital ; Commonwealth ; Drill Hall ; benefactions of James Elliman ; Herschel Hall ; C.H James ; S. Rowland Pierce ; Slough Public Library ; Oakley House ; Oakley Hall ; Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry ; Queensmere ; Sewage Works ; Slough Borough Council ; Slough Urban District Council ; Territorial Army ; Slough Town Hall ; Mrs. A.G. Trevener ; Upton Hospital ; Wesleyan Chapel ; Wexham Park Hospital ; ; Eton Union Workhouse Informary ; Young Men's Christian Association ; Walter J. Harris
Content Type: Book
Location: Slough Library
Local Ref: MF Chapter 12
Unique ID: sl-sl-max_chapter12-d-02-000.pdf
IPR: National Library of Wales
 
 
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