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Thur 12 Sept
THEY WERE QUEUEING TO GET IN MINUTES BEFORE THE ‘EYES DOWN’
First big winner at the new Wokingham bingo session on Friday was Mrs. B.K.
Mason of Upper Broadmoor Road, Crowthorne. She went home with a nice £75 profit
from the evening. And hers was not the only success. The management at the ABC
cinema must be well pleased with the general success of the evening.
Queues started forming outside the theatre from 6.30. The doors did not open until
soon after 7pm, actual play did not start until after 8pm. Surprising aspect of the
crowd to this bingo uninitiated reporter was that there were just as many men in the
crowd as women—even though it seemed to be the ladies’ lucky night for wins.
First ever winner of the session—£5 for a line—was Mrs Audrey Challis, of 2 North
Green, Bracknell. And the lucky person in the member’s draw for £25 was Mrs. Sarah
Carey, of Eustace Crescent, Wokingham.
Bingo caller, Roy (he seems to be called by just his Christian name) took
proceedings along at quite a pace, and there was always something happening to
sustain interest.
He began his calling to a near capacity house—not a bad attendance in a theatre that
holds 700. And the people I spoke to seemed all in favour of bingo on their doorstep.

DEATH OF FORMER MAYORESS
The death occurred last Wednesday night of a former Mayoress of Wokingham,
Mrs. Helena Eustace, of Denton Lodge, 16 Shute End. She was aged 98. Mrs.
Eustace’s husband, Admiral J.B. Eustace, was Mayor of Wokingham from 1923-27.
Mrs. Eustace was a very prominent member of All Saints’ branch of the Mother’s
Union, being an Enrolling Member for many years. She was also a life president of
the national body of the Mother’s Union. She was loved and respected by everyone.
She continued to take an active part in Mother’s Union work until about ten years ago.
Even after this she continued to be interested.
Mrs. Eustace was originally from Scotland, the eldest child of Charles Robertson, of
Kindeace. But she had lived in Wokingham for the greater part of her life. The funeral
took place on Tuesday at All Saints’.

Thur 19 Sept
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ONE-WAY TRAFFIC FOR MOST OF TOWN CENTRE
WOKINGHAM’S BIG TRAFFIC SWITCH-ROUND PLANNED FOR MIDNIGHT
ON SUNDAY SEPT. 29TH
Wokingham’s one-way traffic scheme will come into operation at midnight on
Sunday, September 29th. But the Borough Engineer, Mr. H.G. Bathurst, has issued a
warning to motorists using the town on that Sunday. He says: “Workmen will be on
the town’s roads all day and possibly on the following Monday erecting new islands
and their signs.
The scheme, which is experimental and may have to be amended in the light of
traffic movements, introduces one-way traffic for the whole of the centre of the town
with the exception of Broad Street. This remains two-way to give access to the town
centre and its car parks and to allow buses to enter the centre by a direct route.
Rectory Road will be one-way for traffic entering from Reading Road and
Glebelands Road; Wiltshire Road will be one-way towards the London Road from the
junction with Rectory Road; Peach Street is one-way towards the Town Hall and
Denmark Street to its junction with Langborough Road.

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