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Description: | Dupe mentions the fact that some of the railings and gates that adorned the Drill Hall and Fire Station were requisitioned during the 2nd World War. Mention is also made of the fine workmanship of the builders of these fine buildings - H. D. Bowyer and Son.
Dupe goes on to describe a fire that occurred at Eton College, in which two boys lost their lives. Dupe was working at the Eton College Press at the time.
He also recalls another tragedy involving a fire at a private residence, in which three children were suffocated, while their parents went out for the evening.
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: | Stan Dupe ; Stanley Dupe ; Eton College ; H. D. Bowyer and Son ; Drill Hall ; Fire Station Diaries ; Reminiscences | Temporal: | start=1870-01-01; end=1920-12-31; | 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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