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1826

Mon 3 July
On Tuesday, the town of Wokingham was visited by a most dreadful storm of
thunder and lightning. At the silk factory, several hundred squares of glass were
broken, and most of the lights in the green-houses of John Roberts, esq. and other
gentlemen destroyed. In the house of Mrs. Norris, near 50 panes were broken; as
many in that of Mrs. Ifould, and six in the market room in the Bush. At the Roebuck,
the room in which the ordinary was held, was flooded. And the company put to the
rout. The hailstones were of unusual magnitude; and so violent and continuous were
the torrents of rain, as to render the Market-house invisible from the Bush. Some of
the streets were so completely inundated, that boats might have been navigated in
them. The storm raged also with great fury at Bagshot, Blackwater, and Hartford-
bridge.

1827
Mon 1st Jan
The town of Wokingham being entirely free from the old practice of bull-baiting by
the strict attention and perseverance of the worthy Alderman, and Corporation of that
ancient borough, whose charter bears a date previous to the reign of James I, on St.
Thomas’s day last, upwards of 400 poor families received bread, meat and some
clothing, from the charities bequeathed to the above town and parish.

th
Mon 19 March
Advert
VALUABLE
SILK MILLS & PREMISES
WOKINGHAM AND READING
An improved rent of £307. Per ANNUM
By Mr. SHUTTLEWORTH
At the Auction Mart, in London, on Wednesday, March 21, 1827, at twelve o’clock,
in three lots:
Lot 1.--A FREEHOLD ESTATE, advantageously situated in Peach-street, in the town
of Wokingham, in the county of Berks; comprising a SILK MANUFACTORY,
capable of containing 60 looms, with suitable Buildings and Appurtenances, Yards,
Gardens, &c. As the same was late in the occupation of Mr. John Douglass, deceased.

Lot 2.—A FREEHOLD MESSUAGE or TENEMENT, situated in Rose-street, in that
part of the town of Wokingham, which is in the county of Wilts, with the Out-houses,
Gardens, and Appurtenances, to the same belonging, and the Out-house standing in
the yard of the White Hart Inn, as the same were late in the occupation of the said Mr.
John Douglass, and now partly of Mr. James Chappell.

Lot 3.—An improved RENT of £307. Per ANNUM, secured upon the Minster Mill,
and extensive Premises now occupied as a Silk Mill, eligibly situated in the parish of
St. Mary, in the town of Reading, Berks, in the occupation of Mr. James Douglass.
May be viewed, and particulars had on the respective premises; at the principal Inns
in Wokingham and Reading; of Mr. James, solicitor, Bucklesbury; at the Matr; and of
Mr. Shuttleworth, No. 28, Poultry, London.

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