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features the finals of the hula-hoop contest and many shots of the couple jiving at the
Christmas party.

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Sat 28 March
TOWN CRIER IN ACTION
Wokingham’s new town crier, Mr. Harold Cornish, was in action for the first time
on Saturday when the promoters of a local fête called upon his services.

ROTARY CLUB
Members of the Rotary Club heard a talk by Mr. Bellworthy on “Structural Plastics”
as applied to the aircraft industry at their meeting on Monday. The president, Mr. Jock
Rodger presided.

COLOUR WORK
Members of the Wokingham Colour Photo Society heard a talk by Mr. Lancelot
Vining at St. Crispin’s School on Wednesday, when he showed many examples of 35
mm colour work done by himself and other experts.

FORMER HEAD MASTER DIES
The funeral took place at St. Paul’s Church, Wokingham, on Monday, of Mr.
Edward Elliott Browne, aged 74, of 171, Reading Road, Wokingham, who died on the
previous Tuesday. Mr. Browne was a former head master of Wescott Road School,
Wokingham.

RECRUITING DRIVE
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On June 9 , the Royal Berkshire Regiment and the Wiltshire Regiment
amalgamated to form The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment, and to secure
Regular troops for the new regiment a recruiting drive has been launched in the two
counties. The Berkshire Mobile Campaign opened on Monday with a film show and
display of small arms in the Market Place, Wokingham.

DENTAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
Mr. W. J. Willey, of Glendower, Crescent Road, Wokingham, was recently elected
chairman of the conference of Local Dental Committees to be held in 1960. This was
done at a meeting of representatives of over 100 committees at the Church House,
Westminster, at which the guest speaker was Mr. J.P. Dodds, the Under-Secretary to
the Minister of Health.

DEATH OF FORMER MAYORESS
Mrs. Ethel Thorpe, of Benfieldside, Milton Road, Wokingham, widow of James
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Egerton Thorpe, former Mayor of Wokingham, died on December 23 1958.

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Sat 27 June
BIG FIRE AT WOKINGHAM
A two-bay single storey factory at Oxford Road, Wokingham, was gutted by fire on
Monday, and thousands of pounds worth of electrical equipment, some of which was
for export to Canada was destroyed. The owners of the factory, Ladybird appliances,
Ltd. were at the time moving to new premises in Molly Miller’s Lane. Mr. John
Reynolds, who was passing the factory soon after the fire started, said: “There was a

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