Maxwell Fraser's book, The History of Slough, is still the best guide to the history of our town. For the first time you can see chapters from her book online. Just select your favourite chapter below, or use the search box above to find information about a subject, person or organisation.
Maxwell Fraser was the pen name of Dorothy Phillips. Born in London, she moved with her family to Slough at the age of six or seven and attended St. Joseph's Convent School.
By the mid-1930s she began to write travel books for the Great Western Railway and Methuen under such titles as Irish Holiday Haunts, In praise of Manxland and Companion into Lakeland. Although she continued to write travel books throughout her life, today she is best remembered as the author of the most authoritative book on our town's past.