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Paul Hilton  Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 01:20 on 2nd September 2010 And while we go to cross the bridge to see Eton, Midsomer Murders fans might recognise this building appearing as Midsomer Magistrates Court in The Magician's Nephew.  Picture by Paul Hilton
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| Paul Hilton Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 01:24 on 2nd September 2010 Eton is most famously known for Eton College and the many notable people that have been educated there, such as Princes Harry and William.  Picture by John Crampton
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| Paul Hilton Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 01:37 on 2nd September 2010 As we head north, we come to Slough which was moved from Buckinghamshire to Berkshire and noted for the Slough Trading Estate which started life in WW1 as a military depot and what is now the Mars chocolate factory, used to be where military trucks were re-built; up to the early 1970's, you could still see their steam engines on the Estate, as it branched off the GWR line out of Paddington.  Picture by Charles George
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| Paul Hilton Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 01:45 on 2nd September 2010 As we circle around Berkshire, we come to Woodley where RAF Squadron Leader Sir Douglas Bader crashed and had his legs amputated at the Royal Berkshire hospital in Reading. The Miles Aircraft factory used to be here and in the 1930s, had built the Miles Mohawk plane for Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne, to fly --mostly--around Europe in.  Picture by Edward Lever
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| Paul Hilton Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 01:56 on 2nd September 2010 Near Windsor, we can visit Lego Land and all to see there. The site was originally Windsor Safari Park which we can at least still enjoy seeing too in one of the On The Buses films where the Town and District bus company went to do tours of it with rather disastrous results !  Picture by Julian Wontner
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| Paul Hilton Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 02:02 on 2nd September 2010 The River Thames divides Berkshire and Oxfordshire at Streatley with Goring on the Oxon side.  Picture by Paul Hilton
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| Paul Hilton Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 02:57 on 2nd September 2010 And at the day's end, we can stop off in West Berkshire and look towards Wiltshire as the sun goes down.  Picture by Paul Hilton
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cathyml Posts: 23275 Joined: 25th Jan 2010 Location: South Africa | quotePosted at 05:41 on 2nd September 2010 Well done Paul - hit all the high spots there. I wouldn't have known the towns which have appeared in films etc. Very interesting and enlightening. Many thanks for doing this Whistle-Stop-Tour. |
Ted Posts: 733 Joined: 14th Jan 2009 Location: Netherlands | quotePosted at 10:08 on 5th September 2010 Great tour Paul, lots of information and a great picture as end. You must be a walking encyclopaedia. |
Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 04:55 on 28th March 2011 He is Ted. Paul, that was amazing. Thank you! I think all the POE people who live in England should give us a tour of their counties. Or, is they prefer to give a tour of another county apart from the one they live in, that would be OK too. It's nice to see these tours thru the eyes of those who live there.
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