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CYCLE TRIAL
Seventeen members of Boys’ Clubs from Bracknell, Bear Wood, Ascot, Windsor
and Crowthorne competed in a 9¼-mile cycle time trial in the Nine-Mile-Ride—
Finchampstead Ridges area on Wednesday. Best time was put up by 19-years-old T.
Naggs, of Bracknell, who returned in 23 minutes. Of the under 18’s the fastest time
was recorded by James Claridge, also of Bracknell, who finished in 23 minutes 11
seconds. Fastest time of the under 16’s was an Ascot boy, P.F. Haines, who clocked
24 minutes 35 seconds. Those with the best times will be competing in the county
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championships at Burghfield on July 17 .

SECOND IN GRAND PRIX
In one of the most exciting finishes of the Grand Prix of Endurance—the 24-hours
long gruelling race at Le Mans on Sunday—a Wokingham driver, Mr. J. Duncan
Hamilton, only narrowly failed—with his partner, Tony Rolt—in capturing victory for
the second successive year for the works-entered Jaguar. After an all-out bid to catch
the winning Ferrari, which had been leading practically throughout the race, he was
beaten by 1¾ minutes. Last year this same pair drove Britain’s racing green to victory
at a record average speed of 105.85 m.p.h., slightly faster than this year’s winning
average, 105.16 put up by Foilan Gonzales and Maurice Trintignant. Had it not been
for trouble with the fuel supply, Hamilton and Rolt would have stood a far greater
chance of gaining another win.

EX-SERVICE MEN’S CLUB
Meeting Applies The Closure
The Wokingham Ex-service Men’s Club faced its Dunkirk on Saturday—and did
not survive. At an extraordinary general meeting of the club it was decided--by 11
votes to four—that the club be closed as from the following day. The meeting had
been asked to consider a resolution from the Executive Committee that the club be
closed “in view of the increasing losses, and the marked reduction in support by the
members.”

A WOKINGHAM ESTATE
Sale By Auction Of Heathlands
The 425 acres Heathlands Estate, Wokingham, formerly the home of the late Mrs
W. Howard Palmer, was offered for sale by auction in the Wokingham Town Hall on
Monday afternoon at the first property auction to be held in the hall. Of the 25 lots, 20
found buyers and realised a total of £27, 550. The sale, conducted by Mr. Tom
Vincent, for Messrs. Nicholas, of Reading, attracted considerable interest, and there
was a large attendance. The main residence standing in 22 acres of ground was bought
in by the auctioneers for £12,000, and remains for sale by private treaty.
Of the two farms—Heathlands and Ravenswood—the former was sold for £12,000
whilst the latter, of 110 acres and slightly the smaller, remained unsold.
Heath Lake, extending to seven acres, and a further 82 acres, including much timber
(mostly Scots pine) did not find a market.
The gardener’s five-roomed bungalow cottage realised £2,000, but the walled
garden and vegetable garden (in all over two acres) did not change hands. Four
Houses, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, Edneys Hill, went for £1,200, £1,000 £1,550 and £900
respectively. The bungalow, Honey Hill, realised £850, and an attractive country
bungalow known as “The Shack” was purchased for £1,200. A detached bungalow,
“Lilac Cottage,” and small country holding was knocked down at £910, and nearby

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