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The managing director of the company, Mr. Orson Wright, was spending a holiday
at Foway, in Cornwall, and was immediately sent for. His own living quarters at the
shop and the flat occupied by Mrs. Evans, were practically undamaged.
During the past four years much modernisation has been done to the building.

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Sat 14 July
NEW PRESIDENT
Mr. Dennis Irvin has succeeded Cllr. A.G. Skedgel as President of Wokingham
Rotary Club.

CAMPANOLOGISTS’ VISIT
A party of church bellringers from St. Mary’s, Church, Uxbridge, visited All Saints’
Church, Wokingham, on Saturday, when they rang for a short time.

VITAL STATISTICS
Eleven boys and three girls were born in the town during May. During the same
time there were eight deaths, six men and two women. Of these, four were over 80,
two over 70, and two over 60.

“GUNNERS” AT TATTOO
A coach-load of members of the local branch of the Royal Artillery Association
visited the White City Stadium on Friday last week to watch the annual S.S.A.F.A.
Searchlight Tattoo.

“DUMMY POLICEMAN” STRUCK
A wooden police bollard in Broad Street, Wokingham, was slightly damaged on
Wednesday last week when struck by the front off-side wheel of a Thames Valley
bus, driven by Mr. Frederick S. Hall, of 26, upper Nurseries, Sunningdale, as he was
overtaking a stationary coach.

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Sat 11 Aug
FROM AN OBSCURE CORNER
Several years ago, from an obscure corner of the Town Hall, there was rescued an
oak candlestick—believed to have been used at council meetings in bygone years—
carved in the shape of an acorn. Now, converted into an electric lamp, it serves in this
modern age on the desk in the Mayor’s Parlour. Its origin is surrounded in mystery,
for it was clearly not designed to hold a candle. It may have surmounted a newel post
or formed part of the decorations in an old timbered house. There is some faint
writing in ink on its base: “The Old Town Hall, Wokingham. One of ………” But
what it was, or where the others are, we shall never know.
QUERCUS

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Sat 15 Sept
TOWN HALL
Those who are employed in the Town Hall are hoping that the cold grip of winter
will not be felt in the town for another two or three weeks—the central heating system
is out of action while a new oil-fired boiler is being installed. Costing about £800, this
will be fed automatically from a tank to be erected in the Town Hall yard. It has been
possible to use the existing “high pressure” pipes in the building and as the new

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