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INDEXIndex SPONSORSSponsors LocalHISTORY History A TOto ZZ LocalLOCAL Adverts FIRMS UsefulKEY NUMBERS Numbers FreeADD Listing ENTRY www.atozguide.org/slough Useful Numbers Local History A to Z A to Kindly SupportedKindly by SLOUGH Free local guide and A to Z directory Free A to Z Directory SLOUGH A TO Z GUIDE INDEX INDEX Index Contents This menu is interactive - click on any link to jump straight to your desired classification. The coloured tabs to the right are also live links to help you navigate quickly through the guide. Accountancy Leisure Centres SPONSORS Advertising Agencies Letting Agents Sponsors Air Conditioning Libraries Architects Local Authorities Welcome to your Arts Centres Local Government local A to Z guide. Ballet Schools Locksmiths We hope that you find it Beauty Salons Marquees both interesting and useful. 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Listings are completely free and you can add your details via the simple strictly forbidden. form at: http://www.atozguide.org/free-listing Back to website 2 Back to Index SLOUGH A TO Z GUIDE LOCAL SPONSORS INDEX Index LETTING AGENTS DENTISTS SPONSORS Sponsors TLS Lettings Moonlight Dental Surgery Slough SL1 2EJ, UK Slough SL2 2DG Tel: 01753 526301 01753 518889 http://www.moonlightdental.co.uk http://www.tlslettings.co.uk At Moonlight we aim to deliver the best dental care to HistoryLocal our patients. HISTORY TLS Lettings was established in 1996 with the concept of only specialising in residential lettings & property By providing NHS dentistry, private cosmetic dentistry management. as well as a free smoking cessation service we are able to cater for all aspects of your dental needs. Our aim TLS Lettings have arranged thousands of lettings and is to provide quality dentistry for all the family. This continues to provide a high level of service to all our means not only to restore teeth but also to provide customers. regular advice to help you understand how to care for your teeth yourself and prevent disease. We strive to alleviate any anxieties about dentistry. We wish to guide you towards making informed decisions about A TO Z your teeth and learn how to keep your teeth and gums A to Z healthy for life. LOCAL SPONSORS NOTARY Local AdvertsLocal LOCAL FIRMS LOCAL ArchiGrace Limited Slough SL1 5UH, UK Useful Numbers 07411 23 50 60 KEY NUMBERS http://www.archigrace.co.uk With over 12 years’ experience, our aim is to provide a first class professional service for all of our client’s needs. We take pride in our work as architectural consultants and are committed to provide our clients with a design service which covers all aspects from concept through Listing Free to construction including any project management. ADD ENTRY As Architectural consultants we provide Planning Consultancy, Building Regulations Consultancy and Project Management services. Back to website 3 Back to Index SLOUGH A TO Z GUIDE LOCAL HISTORY INDEX Index LOOKING BACK - A BRIEF LOCAL HISTORY A fascinating insight into how the area has evolved - (thanks to Wikipedia) to store and repair huge numbers of motor vehicles coming back from the SPONSORS battlefields of the First World War in Sponsors Flanders. In April 1920, the Government sold the site and its contents to the Slough Trading Co. Ltd. Repair of ex- army vehicles continued until 1925, when the Slough Trading Company Act was passed allowing the company (renamed Slough Estates Ltd) to establish an Industrial Estate. Local HistoryLocal Spectacular growth and employment HISTORY ensued, with Slough attracting workers from many parts of the UK and abroad. During World War II, Slough experienced a series of air raids, mostly built in 1325, while St Mary the Virgin Slough is a borough and unitary in October 1940 (the largest number of Church in Langley was probably built authority within the ceremonial people, five, dying as a result of one on in the late 11th or early 12th century, county of Royal Berkshire, England. the 13th), and an emergency hospital though it has been rebuilt and enlarged The town is about 20 miles (32 treating casualties from London was several times. kilometres) west of Charing Cross, set up in Slough. Local air raid deaths A TO Z London. and deaths at the hospital account for A to Z From the mid-17th century, the 23 civilian lives recorded lost in the stagecoaches began to pass through It is bisected by the A4 and the Great borough area. Slough and Salt Hill, which became Western Main Line. At the 2001 census, locations for the second stage to change the population of Slough was 119,070 After the War, several further large horses on the journey out from London. (140,200 in 2011) and the borough housing developments arose to take By 1838 and the opening of the Great area was the most ethnically diverse large numbers of people migrating from Western Railway, Upton-cum-Chalvey’s local council area outside London in the war-damaged London. parish population had reached 1,502. AdvertsLocal United Kingdom. Slough has the highest FIRMS LOCAL In 1849, a branch line was completed proportion of religious adherents in from Slough station to Windsor and England. Historically, the larger part For more information, visit: http:// Eton Central railway station, opposite of the present-day Slough area was in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough Windsor Castle, for the Queen’s Buckinghamshire with a small part of convenience. the borough in Middlesex. Slough is home to the Slough Trading Estate—a Slough has 96 listed buildings. There are business centre in South East England— the largest industrial estate in single Four Grade I: St Laurence’s Church private ownership in Europe. It is owned Useful Numbers (Upton), St Mary the Virgin Church KEY NUMBERS and operated by Segro (formerly Slough (Langley),[6] Baylis House and Estates PLC). Godolphin Court Seven Grade II: St Mary’s Church The first recorded uses of the name (Upton-cum-Chalvey), Upton Court, the occur as Slo in 1196, Sloo in 1336, Kederminster and Seymour Almshouses and Le Slowe, Slowe or Slow in 1437. in Langley, St Peter’s Church (Chalvey), It first seems to have applied to a The Ostrich Inn (Colnbrook), and King hamlet between Upton to the east and John’s Palace (Colnbrook) Chalvey to the west, roughly around the Grade II listed structures include four “Crown Crossroads” where the road to milestones: Beech, Oak and Linden Windsor (now the A332) met the Great Listing Free Houses at Upton Hospital, and Slough ADD ENTRY West Road. The Domesday Survey of station 1086 refers to Upton, and a wood for 200 pigs, worth £15. During the 13th 1918 saw a large area of agricultural century, King Henry III had a palace at land to the west of Slough developed Cippenham. Parts of Upton Court were as an army motor repair depot, used Back to website 4 Back to Index SLOUGH A TO Z GUIDE A TO Z DIRECTORY INDEX Index Slough SL1 4XN, UK 07934906060 The White House Design Limited Progress Business Centre, Whittle Pkwy, Slough 01628 660444 SPONSORS Sponsors Arts Centres Norden Farm Centre for the Arts http://www.nordenfarm.org/ Maidenhead’s only purpose built entertainment venue. Gigs - Comedy - Classes - Bar and Cafe www.facebook.com/ nordenfarmcentreforthearts www.twitter. com/nordenfarm HistoryLocal 01628 788997 HISTORY 0844 770 4404Climate aircon Accountancy Ballet Schools Haines Watts