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1928
Isodore James Foy ran a grocer a 34 Market Place until 1936.
1930
Following the death of his brother, Arthur Hambleton became owner of the Hambleton
Bakery at 4 Market Place.
For more than 30 years from the 1930s, C.F. Belcher the butcher served the Evendons area.
The Eagle public house in Rose Street got its last mention.
1934
At the Wokingham Borough Bench, Frank White of Model Farm, Wokingham, was fined 5s.
for allowing two pigs to stray on the highway.
A national Egg Packing Station was opened at Wokingham by Alderman A.E. Priest, the
Deputy-Mayor, in the absence through illness of the Mayor (the Rev. C. Mansfield). It had
been started by the Berks Co-operative Poultry Producers Ltd., of which Mr. J.F. Wood,
“Birchdene,” Finchampstead Road, Wokingham was chairman and secretary.
As in past years, a limited allocation of seed potatoes was made available to applicants who
had been unemployed for considerable periods during the past year.
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