1980: Work on Cookham’s day centre was set to start after contracts for the constructing work had been signed.
Plans had been in movement to transform the previous police station in Cookham into a gathering place for aged residents. It could later develop into referred to as Elizabeth Home.
1985: The Gardeners Arms in Moorbridge Highway served final orders for the ultimate time.
After 26 years behind the bar in one in all Maidenhead’s older-style pubs, landlady Mary Woodhead poured the final drinks for regulars earlier than retiring from the commerce.
1985: Marketing campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) supporters sang protest songs outdoors the emergency operations centre in Maidenhead City Corridor – whereas district councillors met contained in the bunker to debate ‘emergency planning’.
However having been refused permission to enter the assembly, they didn’t take up the supply to tour the bunker afterwards and left about 45 minutes later.
1995: Holyport Main College’s summer season truthful raised £2,300 for varsity tools.
The annual truthful was organised by the varsity’s parent-teacher affiliation and had a books theme.
Kids had been invited to decorate up as their favorite ebook characters.
2000: College students and workers from the Berkshire School of Artwork and Design gathered to say goodbye to their base in Maidenhead – breaking a hyperlink that had lasted greater than a century.
The faculty in Raymond Highway was closing down, to get replaced by greater than 30 indifferent homes and flats.
Almost 200 academics and college students had been making ready to make a transfer to a brand new campus on the Studying School and College of Arts and Design, following a merger.
2000: Motorists queued alongside Oxford Highway in Marlow after a petroleum station slashed the tax off its costs for a TV stunt.
In a link-up with Channel 4’s The Huge Breakfast, Platts of Marlow, in West Road, introduced the price of gas down from 85.9p per litre to simply 21p.
Drivers had simply half an hour to benefit from the tax reduce, however inside two minutes of the discount being introduced on TV, motorists had been already queuing.
2000: Pupils at Desborough College had been assured of a brilliant future within the performing arts following the opening of a brand new drama block.
To mark the event, the drama and music division on the college produced a night of particular performances, the centrepiece of which was a sci-fi present referred to as Out of this World by 12 months seven boys.
