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Sat 23 June
NEW TOWN HALL
On Monday last the Savings Bank weekly meeting was held for the first time in the
room in the new Town Hall, the use of which for bank purposes in the trustees’
perpetuity. The room, which is in the corner of the new building facing the Rose
Hotel, is large and in every way suited for the bank purposes and there the bank will
be opened every Monday as usual from 12.00 till one o’clock.

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Sat 30 June
NEW TOWN HALL
The looking glass presented by the Recorder Mr. Carrington, on the opening of the
new Town Hall was a plate 21” by 91”. It was supplied by Mr. Edward Foulkes,
Russell Street, Covent Garden.

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Sat 4 Aug
Death of F A Carrington Recorder

BAPTIST CHAPEL.
The work of demolition of this building was commenced on Tuesday last, and we
hope the weather will prove more favourable for the erection of the new building than
we have lately experienced. Mr. Wells of Reading has undertaken the contract. The
Town–hall has been kindly given up for the purpose of holding their Sabbath morning
and evening services; but although a spacious building it does not appear sufficient to
accommodate the number of attendants.

EXCURSION TRAIN TO HASTINGS
The Special Excursion Train to Hastings on Tuesday last, was well patronised by
our townsfolk, in connection with the members of the Reading Philanthropic
Institution. The weather was fortunately fine, and those who made up their minds for
a holiday thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Sat 18 Aug
THE LATE RECORDER
The late Frederick Augustus Carrington, Esq., F.A.B., Recorder of Wokingham,
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who died on the 30 ult, at the age of 58, was the only son of the late Rev. Caleb
Carrington, formerly vicar of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, by Elizabeth, daughter of Mr.
Edward Rawlins, of Enford, Wilts. He was born in 1801, was called to the bar at
Lincoln’s Inn in 1828, and for many years was a member of the Oxford circuit. He
was appointed in 1858 to the Recordership of Wokingham, Berks, now vacant by his
decease. We learn from the County Families that in 1858 he married Phillipina, only
child and sole heiress of the late John Banning Esq. of Ogbourne St. George, and
Burbage, Wilts.
The deceased gentleman was a Magistrate for Wiltshire, and a Deputy Lieutenant
for Berkshire and represented an old Cheshire family of great respectability. His
estates pass to the representative of his sister, Mary who was married in 1826 to John
Marklove, Esq. Of Lullingworth House, Gloucestershire, but died in 1849—Court
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