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Title: Observatory House, Windsor Road, Slough. About 1905 [Go to resource]
Description: The astronomer Sir William Herschel (1738-1822), who discovered Uranus, lived in Observatory House from 1786 until his death. In 1789 he built a 40ft telescope in the garden. This telescope could be seen from the Bath Road and was shown for many years on the Ordnance Survey Maps as a landmark. The Herschel family continued to live in Observatory House until 1957. The house was demolished in 1963 and replaced with an office block, also named Observatory House. The front of the postcard reads 'Copyright Chas. Palmer, Slough'. Charles Palmer is listed as a printer and stationer at 146-148 High Street in a 1907 directory. Date is probably around 1905, based on a similar postcard postmarked 1905. 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: Houses ; Roads
Windsor Road ; Observatory House ; William Herschel ; Charles PalmerTemporal: start=1900-01-01; end=1910-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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