Paul Hilton's Pictures of Newbury

Newbury, Berkshire

New buildings add contrast to the many older and traditional buildings in Newbury town centre.

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Newbury, Berkshire

Jessops store in Newbury which closed January 2013. It was long ago formerly the Northbrook Inn pub.

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Newbury, Berkshire

Vodafone Wright Solar-bodied Scania buses, operated by Reading Buses, pass near the Millenium Bridge, Parkway, Newbury, Berkshire.

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Victoria Park, Newbury, Berkshire.

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Newbury, Berkshire

Lead musket balls from the Battle of Newbury, 1643 during the English Civil War. Size is approx 16mm or 5/8th inch diameter, and would have been fired from matchlock muskets or pistols. After the Siege of Gloucester the Royalist and Parliamentarian armies headed east towards Reading on different routes that would be converging at Newbury Sept 1643. The Royalist held the town itself and along the Andover road blockaded any further advancement of the Roundheads. The resultant battle over a few days ended in stalemate with some 3,000 soldiers killed. In 1644 Oliver Cromwell returned to West Berkshire with his Parliamentarian army to attack Donnington Castle, Newbury held by the Royalists under Col. John Boys. The resultant battle was yet again inconclusive, though Donnington Castle suffered severe damage from the bombardment of Parliamentarian canons.

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The Princess Royal is assisted by Col. Brian T Kelly, Commander 501st Combat Support Wing, USAF while laying the first wreath at a new WW2 Memorial at Greenham Business Park near Newbury. Copyright Paul Hilton 2012. No commercial use of any kind permitted.

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Looking west across Greenham Common near Newbury, Berkshire.

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The Market Place, Newbury with the Town Hall and its clock. The town hall opened in May 1878. Concurrently, or earlier times it had been the locations of the police station, magistrates court, jail and whipping post.

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The Hogs Head pub in the Market Place, Newbury. To its right is the start of Wharf St. which, in the 1841-1901 Census returns, only appears under that name in 1851.

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The Hatchet pub in the Market Place, Newbury. In 1880, there were seven pubs near here. The Hatchet is one of three that still survive.

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The Queens Hotel in the Market Place, Newbury. Its former name was The Three Tuns pub, dating from the 1800s.

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The Old Waggon and Horses pub in the Market Place, Newbury. It's 19th century frontage is on an older building.

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The Tourist Information offices in The Wharf, Newbury. Back in the 60's this was the travel office and bus station of Thames Valley Traction in the old Granary building.

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An HST of First Great Western stops at Newbury on its way from London,Paddington to the West Country. The railway arrived in Newbury in 1847.

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The Methodist Church in Northbrook St Newbury was founded in 1837 as a Wesleyan Chapel which is thus now the oldest surviving chapel in Newbury.

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The Corn Exchange in The Market Place, Newbury, Berkshire dates from 1861 and today has been altered into a theatre and arts centre. In the summer of 1944, Capt. Glenn Miller and his band performed here for the people of Newbury and US military personnel in the region.

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The name plate above the door knocker states this building is Club House, reflecting to back in the latter 19th Century, it was a Working Mens Club. To its left was also the former Jolly Millers pub now No. 19 West Mills.

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A group of cottages at West Mills named Dolton Mews. Their name refers to H Dalton and Sons Ltd who bought the nearby mill from Hovis Ltd in the latter 1950s.

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Some of the residential buildings along West Mills have been converted from their earlier usage as part of the former mill nearby.

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Newbury, Berkshire

Apartments built 1980-82 stand on the site of one of Newbury's mills that had been here since at least the 1600s until it was demolished in 1972. Opposite the mill had been The Crown pub demolished in the 20th century. The mills here giving this area near Newbury's town centre, the name of West Mills.

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