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Description: | Dupe continues to describe how the Government took over a large area of land in 1918, in order to build a motor repair and storage depot, and how the character of Slough subsequently changed from residential to industrial. He also mentions seeing the first lorries driving into Slough, and the emergence of the Trading Estate, and how important the latter was to people during the Second World War.
Dupe's memoirs end here, as he believes that events after 1920 remain fresh in the minds of people reading his book.
Mr Stan Dupe, a Chalvey resident, recorded his experiences from his earliest memories up to 1920, in his detailed memoirs. His account reveals what it was like to live in Slough as a child, including looking forward to the circus, carnivals, and travelling companies, and in later years witnessing the overwhelming public reaction to Queen Victoria's funeral procession in 1901. He recalls local murders, notorious thefts, local legends of the infamous Dick Turpin, triumphs of local sporting heroes, and the first parachute jump from a balloon. These recollections, often touching, occasionally tragic, and always related with such spirit and charm, allow us to take a glimpse into a bygone age, and transport us to a time of transition from a very rural Slough and District to the modern, far more industrial community we know today. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Diaries ; Reminiscences ; Trades and industries ; World War II ; Trading Estates Stan Dupe ; Stanley Dupe ; Slough Trading Estate | Temporal: | start=1870-01-01; end=1945-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Stan Dupe | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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