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Sat 25 June
BAND DANCE
The town Band held a successful open-air dance on Wednesday at “Highfield,”
Milton Road, by kind permission of Commander Gregorie, R.N. in aid of the band
funds.

BAND AT RECTORY
By the kindness of the Rev. B. Long, the rector, the Wokingham Military Band,
under Mr. E. Farrar played for dancing in the grounds of All Saints’ Rectory on
Monday evening.
A REMARKABLE ACCIDENT
A singular accident occurred at Wokingham on Monday, when two horses attached
to a large van bolted and one fell down the area at the front of a house in Marsham
Place.
The horses were drawing a large pantechnicon, loaded with furniture, belonging to
Messrs. E.W. Reeves and Co., of Wokingham, and were driven by George Bishop of
53, Peach Street, Wokingham. When about to turn into Carey Road the near side
horse suddenly jumped, getting one leg over the centre-pole. Both horses at once
became restless and the driver and another employee named Cairns tried to release the
near horse. The second animal then swerved round and bolted with the van down the
hill. Jumping the railings in front of one of the houses and breaking the harness the
horse fell down into a deep and narrow area where it became firmly lodged. Cairns
hung on to the horse trying to release it until it jumped the railings and he was almost
dragged over himself. Police assistance was sent for and a veterinary surgeon was also
summoned. A set of ropes and pulleys was obtained and was fixed to the upper
window of the house. By this means the animal was hauled bodily out of the area and
then deposited on the road where it lay exhausted. Great difficulty was experienced in
hauling it up as the horse kicked and struggled and damaged the front of the house.
None of the three windows of the house, however, were broken. After a time the horse
recovered and was taken to its stable, apparently little the worse for its fall.

‘BUS RUNS INTO COWSHED
An accident occurred at the foot of Buckhurst Hill, London Road, Wokingham, on
Friday last week, when one of the Thames Valley Company’s ‘buses plying between
Reading and Sunningdale ran off the road into a cow-shed in a meadow.
About 5.45 p.m., Arthur Gregory, of 54, Highgrove Street, Reading, was driving the
‘bus from Sunningdale back to Reading, and on reaching the foot of the hill felt a
bump. The steering gear was knocked out of his hands, and the ‘bus swerved across
the path, went through the hedge, and ran into the side of a cow-shed in a meadow
belonging to Mr. Alfred Lane. The side of the shed was demolished, and the
occupants of the ‘bus received a shaking, but no one was injured. It appears that when
the driver felt the shock a car driven by Mr. T. Baldwin, of The Vine Hotel, Reading,
collided with the ‘bus. The driver of the latter said he heard no warning signal of
anyone wanting to pass him.

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Sat 2 July
WOKINGHAM ALL SAINTS’ WAR MEMORIAL
The war memorial erected to commemorate the services of the men of All Saints’
Parish, Wokingham, who fell in the Great War, was unveiled and dedicated on
Monday evening with impressive ceremony and in the presence of a very large

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