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PP 82 Jan 10 Pdf Order CT PU JE RL Journal Contents O E R Y P Chairman’s New Year Message John Chapman 3 Reading Gaol Tony Trendle 6 L y Nature Notes Cliff & Jean Debney 12 oc t al cie History So Remembering Iris Moon Ben Viljoen 14 Reviews of Meetings & Events Battle of Newbury (Clive Williams) David Downs 16 A Canal Through Reading (Rick Jones) David Downs 18 What’s in a Name? (Jean Debney) David Downs 22 A Christmas Carol (Rain or Shine) David Downs 24 Christmas Party David Downs 27 Forthcoming Meetings & Events Weddings : bring your own photos and memorabilia Friday 15th January Pangbourne - Census & Owners 1894 Lyn Davies Friday 19th February AGM (starts 7.30pm) then Prisoners of War Karina Jordan Friday 19th March The GWR comes to the Thames Valley John Chapman THE PROJECT PURLEY JOURNAL Friday 16thApril January 2010 Meetings held at The Barn, Goosecroft Lane off Beech Road, Purley at 8pm unless otherwise stated Number 82 £2.00 Project Purley Publications 4 Sources for the History of Purley on Thames Vol 1 Index (revised Feb 1989) 5 Sources for the History of Purley on Thames Vol 1 part 3 (items 39-61) THE PROJECT PURLEY JOURNAL (Reprinted and revised Sept 2005) 6 Index Locorum to The Diary of Reading Corporation (reprinted September 2005) 16 Monumental Inscriptions at St Mary’s Church Part B - Memorials in old churchyard 18 Beating the Bounds (£0.50) Please contact Ann Betts if you would like to purchase copies of the above publications. The costs, unless marked otherwise, are £1 per copy for members and £2 per copy for non-members, plus postage where applicable. The following are being prepared for re-publication 1 Sources for the History of Purley on Thames Vol 1 part 1 (items 1-23) (revised Aug 1988) 2 Sources for the History of Purley on Thames Vol 1 part 2 (items 24-38) (Aug 1988) 3 Monumental Inscriptions at St Mary's Church Purley Part C (Feb 1989) 8 The Early History of Purley C of E School by Rita Denman (1993) 10 The Place Names of Purley on Thames by John Chapman (Sept 1990) 11 Project Purley Newsletters 1-11 (Apr 1996) 12 Project Purley Newsletters 12-16 (Apr 1996) 13 Purley on Thames at the Millennium compiled by John Chapman (Dec 1999) 14 Monumental Inscriptions at St Mary's Church Part C - Memorials in new churchyard This Journal is published Other Purley Related Publications by Tour Guide to Purley Church (1988) Project Purley A History of St Mary's Church Purley by John Chapman (1988) the Purley on Thames Local History Society Cover: Reading Gaol Frontispiece: Jayne Lloyd of Rain or Shine Printed by The Print Room, Portman Road, Reading 3 Chairman’s New Years Message John Chapman Editor Ann Betts Designer Ben Viljoen I write this on the day following one of Project Purley's most successful ventures, the performance by the Rain or Shine Theatre Company of 'A Christmas Carol'. Unfortunately I missed the June performance as I was ill for most of the summer but I am told it was up to the same high standard as ever. These performances do more The contents of this Journal are protected for Project Purley's image, for bringing together our community, for by copyright and nothing may be raising money for charity and for just plain enjoyment than almost reproduced without prior written permission anything else that happens in the village. They have now become an from Project Purley established tradition and this extra one in the run up to Christmas © has been a real bonus. We owe a great deal of gratitude to David Downs for his initiative with this and to Catherine Sampson for ISSN 1754-677X catering for well over 300 people on the day. All in all 2009 has been a very successful year for Project Purley with a good range of topics for our monthly events. We started off with our usual Members' Evening recalling our very varied childhoods, many of which were clouded by memories of the war. Then for February we had what was perhaps the most professional presentation we have ever had by Hugh Grainger on 'The Evolution of the English Language' which told us so much about our own history. March saw a revised history of Reading Football Club by David Downs, one of the highlights being the tale of the one-legged goal keeper. In April we had Jean and Ken Fostekew telling us about the history of aviation in Berkshire. Our summer programme was rather different. In May we visited Dennison Barracks at Hermitage to learn something of military mapping and June took several members to Newbury for a walk around led by Jane Burrell as well as the 'Taming of the Shrew', both of which I missed. The annual Barbecue was an indoor affair this year courtesy of Dorothy and Ben Viljoen and Jupiter Pluvius. Clive Williams came along to kick off the Autumn programme with a talk about the Battle of Newbury and Rick Jones fascinated us 4 THE PROJECT PURLEY JOURNAL Chairman’s New Year Message 5 all with a history of the Kennet and Avon Canal in October, although just in Berkshire with several members associated with national his title suggested only the stretch through Reading and I was organisations. expecting a resumé of the delights of the cafés by the Oracle. Jean 2010 looks like being a momentous year for Project Purley with Debney kept us amused about our surnames and what might have our book launch and exhibition as well as a first class programme of been our ancestors' occupations in days gone by in November. We events (watch this space). We have purchased a web-site and there is are most grateful to Tony Trendle for all his hard work in putting a lot of information available already although the presentation is a together this and most of next year's programme. bit basic at the moment - try it anyway by going to www.project- On the publications scene our Journal has gone from strength to purley.eu. Any offers of help will be gratefully accepted. strength thanks to Ann Betts and Ben Viljoen. Catherine Sampson is It just remains for me first to thank all the members of the busy assembling photos and snippets of information for a picture Committee for their hard work in this past year and all our members book of Purley and we have a revision to the 'Place Names of Purley' for their support. Finally to wish all our members, their friends and and a new 'Road Transport in Purley and Pangbourne' in hand. We their families a very happy and prosperous New Year. are hoping to hold a major exhibition next August or September to launch the Picture Book. To support our publications and to protect our heritage our electronic archive is now well under way with some 1909 images, 588 press cuttings, 383 articles, 759 document transcripts plus another 1324 miscellaneous items in electronic form which can be made available to members if they like to loan me a memory stick for a few days - but beware it takes well over 3 Gb of memory and we are only about 10% complete with the material we already have on paper.. Included are copies of many of the Parish Magazines dating back to 1933 - we have a huge backlog in scanning these. Our thanks go out to all those who have loaned material for scanning. At our next AGM in March, your Committee will be presenting a new Constitution. The present one which dates back to 1984 with a few modifications, is somewhat out of date due mainly to changes in technology. We hope you will support the proposal. One of the great things about Project Purley is that so many of our members are active in other societies and provide links to a much wider range of interests than just our own village. To mention a few - The Berkshire Local History Association, The Berkshire Archaeological Society, The Berkshire Family History Society, The Berkshire Gardens Trust, The Berkshire (and West Berkshire) Heritage Environment Forums, Pangbourne Heritage and these are 6 THE PROJECT PURLEY JOURNAL Reading Gaol 7 Reading Gaol And during the 18th and 19th centuries, women as well as men, were hanged for their crimes, some crimes that would be regarded in Tony Trendle today’s world as less serious, such as bigamy, assault, burglary,vagrancy and counterfeiting, and the gallows also awaited In Reading gaol by Reading town the felon guilty of pick-pocketing, shoplifting, embezzlement or There is a pit of shame receiving stolen goods. Capital punishment could sometimes be Those two lines are included in ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’, written commuted, but the punishment would still be severe. Where, for by Oscar Wilde, who himself sojourned in that prison in November instance, a value set on goods stolen was less than 12p, the sentence 1895 from previous detention at Newgate, Pentonville, and might be transportation to the colonies, or branding with hot irons, Wandsworth, to serve the remainder of his sentence for ‘gross or whipping. indecency’ and later, bankcruptcy. We have an account of what the Castle Street Bridewell was like Wilde hated his time in prison, a life in stark contrast to that to from a Prison Chaplain. which he had been accustomed. And his ballad contains the verse ‘A spacious room with four dark huts on one side for night- that sums up the horror of prison in the 19th century: rooms, dirty and out of repair.
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