
A History of Clewer
Booklet 3. Museum Index

The Clewer Group
The following is a list of the contents of the Clewer Village Museum which is
located in the gatehouse in the main entrance to St Andrew's Church. The entries
indicate the location an serial number of the items using the following terms:
Pass = passage.
Inn = inner room.
Out = outer room.
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1 |
A Windsor souvenir plate Late 19th cent. |
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2 |
l9th century grave tester: to test whether a coffin had rotted away. |
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3 |
"Facsimile letter received by the Clewer Mothers for their contribution to Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Gift, 1887" |
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4 |
New Testament. These were presented to local school children by Walter Reavell to mark the Jubilee |
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5 |
A medal presented to local children for George V’s Coronation. |
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6 |
"The Windsor Society of St George's bill for red roses, presented to Queen Mary on St George’s Day 1934." |
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7 |
"Greetings received by the Windsor St George Society from other branches in 1937 (Note: the Minutes of this Society, from its start to its closure are exhibited in the Outer Room.)". |
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8 |
"A map of Parsonage Lane showing the line of the railway which never got built. It was to have been a Windsor/Ascot line with a ""deviation"" taking in Clewer and Bray." |
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8a |
"The Oakley Court Hotel, formerly Oakley Court, the mansion built by Lord-Otho Fitzgerald after he had married Lady Londesborough. Lord Stanley, said he was a mercenary fortune hunter"" and Queen Victoria said he a penniless mauvais sujet."" He was the third son of the Duke of Leinster. The marriage took place in 1861. Both Lord Otho and his wife are buried in Clewer churchyard." |
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9 |
"Purchase Order served on Rector Cowie, 1900, by the Great Western Railway, when (for the third time) the railway plan was revived." |
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10 |
"St Leonard’s Hill an article from Country Life March 1901, about the mansion which Sir Francis Tress Barry, MP for Windsor, built on the site of the house which had been Lord Harcourt's. Parts of the older house were retained." |
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11 |
A document whereby the Great Westenn Railway allowed Walter Green to rent some of their Clewer land for grazing. When the railway plan was finally abandoned the land reverted to the Rector. The Green family had a builder's yard where Haslemere Rd now stands. |
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12 |
Map and document showing how Clewer lost one path and gained another in 1863. |
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13 |
"A Group of items connected with the Procters of Clewer Park, (donated by Mrs Hopper, herself a Proctor descendant)". |
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13(a) |
Photograph of painting of Mrs George Proctor and an original water colour. |
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13(b) |
Photograph of painting of the above lady's only son: killed in the Crimea. |
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13(c) |
George Henry Proctor (photograph) the last of the Clewer Proctors and great nephew of Mrs George Proctor. |
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13(d) |
"Water colour by Emily Auria, daughter of George Proctor of a maid looking out from a doorway in Clewer Park." |
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13(e) |
Photograph of silver mug presented to the Proctors by Queen Anne when she stayed at Clewer Park. |
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13(f) |
"A water colour of the mansion, Clewer Park, which stood to the west of Clewer Church. This is copied by Mrs Hopper from a mid 19th cent original." |
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13(g) |
"A self-portrait, in water colour, by Emily Auria Proctor. She is seen sketching in the conservatory at Clewer Park." |
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13(h) |
Photo-copy of Henry Proctor's passport issued by Lord Derby in 1877. |
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13(i) |
"Photograph of the memorial to architect George Street, in the Law Courts, The Strand, which he designed. Street married a Proctor." |
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13(j) |
"The ""LIBRARY"" a learned journal dated January 1904 containing an article about Robert Proctor (1868 - 1903. He was lost during a walking tour in the Alps and his body was never recovered." |
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13(k) |
The Proctor family tree. |
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13(A) |
"A Deed dated 1874. This related to the purchase of a brick building in Clewer New Town, which was being used as ""independent chapel,"" It seems that Rector T.T.Carter bought the building., (to stop it from being used as an independent chapel) but had front men whose names appeared on the deed". |
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13 (B) |
Items relating to St Stephen's Church and Parish. St Stephen's; Church was built as a Mission to the poorest part of the parish and became a separate parish In 1873. |
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14 |
A Windsor Souvenir: strip of postcard circa 1890. Clewer Church is depicted. |
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15 |
"Programme for the 1908 Marathon which started in Windsor, the starter being Edward VII, It was part of the Olympic Games. The odd 385 yards were added during this year so that the runners would pass a spot where the Royal Family could watch in comfort." |
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16 |
"Oil painting- on wood with vellum insert. 'Presented to Walter Poole, Secretary of Windsor Working Men's Inst. in 1885." |
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17 |
Details of the residents of Clewer Village in 1843 recalled by Mr Copas. |
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18 |
Unidentified iron tongs found buried in Clewer Churchyard. |
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19 |
A gaslight fitting from a cottage in Oak Lane. |
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20 |
Enlarged photograph of a print of Windsor Castle. |
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21 |
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22 |
"A miscellany"" of photographs etc relating to comparatively recent Clewer events." |
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23 |
"Oil painting of Clewer Church Lodge which houses this Museum. A listed building designed by Woodyer. The painting, done in 1985, is by John Regan who was 90 when he painted it." |
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24 |
"The pillars and arches in Clewer Church: photograph," |
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25 |
An alleged ‘pointed Norman arch’ now known to be 19th century. Photograph. |
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26 |
"Christmas anthem composed by Albert Mellor of Windsor & Vicar of Windsor. Mellor's daughter, Doris, was the lady who ""fought the fight"" for Bachelor’s Acre to be kept for its ancient purposes." |
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27 |
"Carved wooden plaque of Prince Philip. This was made for the pub, the Duke of Edinburgh, which once stood opposite the Swan in Mill Lane. The pub was named after the 19th century Duke of Edinburgh, but when Prince Philip took the title the landlord thought it right that he should be depicted." |
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28 |
"A map of 1822- reissued in 1891. The re-issued map, seen here, had the railways super-imposed on it, but various natural features - ponds, ditches, etc. which had vanished when the railways were built - were left on the map also. Clewer can be seen to have brick kilns on a site on the south side of what is now Maidenhead Road. A kiln was briefly revealed in 1984 during the building of Wells Close." |
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29 |
Photographs of the severe flooding (1) in Alma Road and (2) in Clewer Village in 1947. Clewer Church was not flooded. |
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30 |
An attractive 19th century Windsor tradesman's billhead showing the castle and town. |
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31 |
A selection of advertisements of local tradesmen in the 1920s. |
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32 |
A letter .written from the front in 1915 by a soldier to a Windsor girl |
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33 |
A letter to a Windsor girl written in 1917 from a German prisoner-of-war camp and heavily censored. |
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34 |
A sketch of Clewer Church in 1984 by Frank Robinson. |
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35 |
Some Clewer Church links with the theatre. All items have captions. |
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36 |
Photographs and details of Clewer Church's spire. |
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37 |
"A memorial card to those lost in the Titanic disaster. This is shown because in Clewer Churchyard is one of the few dead bodies to be recovered and brought back for burial. it is that of Owen Allum, a Windsor telegraph boy." |
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38 |
"Photograph of the presentation to Mr R. Hammond, in Clewer Parish Hall. He was Parish Clerk for more thirty years and had an undertaker's business in Dedworth Road. 'Rector 'Payne-Cooke is in the photograph." |
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39 |
Pieces of crockery excavated in the garden of Clewer Rectory. These Copeland items were made for the North Polar expedition of 1875 and were on the Discovery. |
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39(a) |
"Crew list of the Discovery (from the National Maritime Museum) showing that the Captain was Sir Henry Frederick Stephenson. The other ship, the Alert, was commanded by Sir George Nares. Sir H F Stephenson's family worshipped at Clewer." |
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39(b) |
This book records the names of those who subscribed to the restoration of Clewer's Brocas Chapel. The names of members of the Stephenson family are shown. |
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40 |
"A water-colour of Clewer Church as it never was: a plan for the interior decoration devised by I.C.I, in the 1960s. The picture is architecturally " |
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41 |
The Duke of Edinburgh pub. which once stood opposite The Swan (photograph) |
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42 |
Windsor's Special Constables: World War II. |
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43 |
"Various items connected with the Glover family. William Glover senior was tapissier to Queen Victoria. Mary Ann Glover, his daughter, was sent to Germany as maid to the Queen's eldest daughter, Victoria, but the princess found her hopeless, grumbled about her and sent her back home "for health reasons". The Queen gave her a pension and advised her to open a school which she did. She and her parents are buried at Clewer." |
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44 |
A colour photograph of the Glover Memorial window in Clewer Church. It is the work of William Kempe. |
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45 |
Fragments of the Glover gravestone which was visited by Queen Victoria. It was vandalised some years ago. |
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46 |
Photographs of buildings of St Stephen’s High School for Girls which was in the Vansittart Rd/Oxford area from 1882 to 1934. |
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47 |
Photograph of the School’s quadrangle. |
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48 |
"A brief history of the School, by former pupils." |
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49 |
"A group photograph of the school, circa 1926." |
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50 |
The School Banner. The daffodil was the school badge. A daffodil can be seen carved on the Bishop’s Throne in Clewer Church because it was formerly the Headmistress’s chair from this school. |
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51 |
A water-colour of Clewer Church by Sarah Jane Glover. |
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52 |
Programme for a musical evening at Windsor Castle 1891. |
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53 |
A Fine Bronze Statue of Henrietta Cecil Henderson who died in childbirth in 1913 and is buried at Clewer. This stood on her grave but was brought inside when it was discovered that attempts were being made to steal it. Mrs Henderson was a great benefactress of the Clewer poor. She is depicted receiving the "Crown of Life" The statue is the work of Sir George Frampton, famous for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Edith Cavell in Trafalgar Square. Clewer Church's present organ was given in her memory, by her husband, in 1914. |
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53(a) |
Pencil rubbing of the signature of Sir George Frampton (on the statue) |
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54 |
A kitchen sink dug up in the Rectory garden. |
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55 |
A message of thanks from Queen Elizabeth (now the Queen Mother) to Clewer people who had given homes to refugees in World War II. |
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56 |
"A framed anthology of items. relating to Clewer in World War II. A Clewer man's defence medal; A Certificate of the Parsonage Lane War Savings Group; Thanks from Clapham County Secondary School, to Clewer people who housed pupils from Clapham as evacuees" |
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57 |
"A photograph of an anti-aircraft gun and its crew, Windsor Home Park, in World War 2." |
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58 |
The key used for Clewer Parish Hall when it was the local ARP HQ. |
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59 |
"Photograph of a dug-out on Maidenhead Road, for ARP. personnel." |
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60 |
"A World War II Gas mask for a child, issued to a Clewer Village child. These were known as ""Mickey Mouse masks""" |
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61 |
Anti-gas goggles from Clewer’s ARP. post. |
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Inn |
1 |
Popish Mummery an account from the journal of a non-conformist lay preacher of the funeral of Canon T.T.Carter in 1901. |
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2 |
"The Tent which was not used. American evangelists Moody and Sankey planned to visit Eton in 1875. An uproar in Parliament, and letters in The Times, caused the visit to be cancelled so the pair had their meeting "behind Mr Cayley's premises in Windsor High Street." |
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3 |
Ordnance Survey map of 1899 - note how little building there was west of Clewer |
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4 |
Map by John Speed(1552-1629) Clewer appears as Cluworth. |
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5 |
Photographs of two maps (a) a sheet of the 1761 Survey of Berks. (b) Walter’s map of Windsor Forest. 1856. |
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5(a) |
"19th cent. hand-coloured copy of Norden’s map of Windsor 1607. Note the original Windsor Parish Church, the original Guildhall; the pillory; the inns with signs extending into the street." |
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5(b) |
"Oil painting on wood, circa 1820, of Mill Lane, Clewer Village. On the left may be seen Edgeworth House, now the Y.H.A. Hostel." |
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5(c) |
"19th cent hand coloured copy of Norden’s Map of Windsor Forest'. 1607. Note ""Clure Church.""" |
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5(d |
" A tile, believed by some to be Roman. The only one of several found, years ago, in the structure of Clewer Church belltower." |
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6 |
Early print of Clewer Church from the south showing original boundary and gate. The road by the gate went to Clewer landing-stage. |
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6 (a) |
Photograph dated 1857 showing the churchyard when it was in two sections. |
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7 |
Photograph of Clewer churchyard cross erected in 1860 when the two sections were united. The cross marks the position of the old gateway seen in (6) above. The cross restored by Messrs Fountain of Eton in 1910 who were then allowed to sell photographs of it. This is one of them. |
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8 |
The page from Messrs Fountain's account book relating to the restoration of the cross. |
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9 |
"Papers relating to the transfer of the patronage of Clewer benefice from Crown to Eton College via Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, in 1692." |
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9(A) |
Rare book: Walker's ‘Sufferings of the Clergy’. It chronicled the sufferings of clergy ousted from livings by Cromwell. It is open at a page bearing an article by Lionel Gatford (Rector of Clewer 1677-1681) about the Sufferings of his parents. The book was published in 1714. |
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10 |
The second appeal issued by T.T. Carter (Rector 1844-1880) In 1860 for the restoration of the church. Note the reference to the earlier Saxon church which had stood on the same site. |
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11 |
"Clewer’s Lady Chapel in the north aisle was established early this century 'but until 1975 it had a nondescript altar and its only reredos was a blue curtain. Then a building in Hawley, Hants, was about to be demolished. It had originally been the Chapel of the Orphanage built by TT Carter in 1881 and run by the Clewer Sisters, so its handsome altar and reredos came home to Clewer." |
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11(A) |
"The pages relating to Clewer Church from Elias Ashmole’s Annals of Berkshire. There are interesting details of graves which have long ago vanished including one ""with Saxon characters.""" |
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12 |
"A stole which belonged to the Rev R Errington, Rector 1880-1900" |
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12(A) |
"A print of Clewer Church font from a sketch done in 1858. It then stood at the , west end of the north aisle which could suggest that the north aisle had been the site of the earlier building, and that the font was originally by the original building’s door. The base is quite unlike the present base. The font was moved to the east side of the present church door by TT Carter in the 1860s and it seems that the original base was the broken. The main part of the font is believed to be Saxon." |
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13 |
Photographs of 3 rectors: Roland Errington (1880-1900); Arthur Cowie (1900-1925) and Cyprian Dymoke-Marr (1943-1971) |
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14 |
"Clewer Church. Oil painting on wood, circa 1820." |
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15 |
"Photograph of T.T. Carter standing, by the new churchyard cross. 1860 Note the wooden Grave memorial. A plank across two carved posts." |
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16 |
"Two carved posts from the last surviving of the "wooden graves." |
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17 |
Two bottles-and a spade guinea found in the SW corner of the churchyard on the site of a cottage which was demolished in 1860. |
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18 |
"An iron grave memorial, Rector Errington favoured these. Families blackleaded them." |
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19 |
"Sketches of Clewer Church and village by Jane Carter, T.T. Carter's daughter. Mill Lane can be seen before the re-building on the 1860s. Also the cottage referred to in (17) above. It was wood & thatch with a brick chimney." |
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20 |
The last of the cottage chimney: the bricks welded together by heat. |
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21 |
Postcard of Clewer Church interior before the screen was painted. |
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22 |
Water colour of Clewer Church sanctuary before the alterations of the 1860s. |
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23 |
"Various keys: Clewer Church door; the church's iron chest; St Annes’s House, Hatch Lane; and Clewer old Rectory. (3)" |
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23(a) |
Photograph of St Anne’s House. |
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24 |
Fragment of a window moved from Clewer Church early this century. |
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25 |
Magic Lantern slides of Clewer Church interior. |
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26 |
A public notice concerning the churchyard extension.' |
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27 |
"Items found in a hole in the wall of the church's underground boiler house: clay pipe, fragments of human bone; pieces of a brass-studded chest or coffin; coffin handle, pieces of chalk from which the church is built." |
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28 |
Clewer Church’s iron chest said to date from Tudor times. |
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29 |
"A piece of worked chalk from Clewer Church floor. The chalk is said to have been quarried from the bluff on which Windsor Castle stands. Clewer - Clyvore - Cliffware is said to mean ""people of the cliff"" and the cliff would have been Castle Hill. " |
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30 |
" A print of Clewer Church dated 1804. from a sketch by Angelo, an Eton Master.' Published by Thos. Ingalton of Eton High Street on June 4th - Eton College's ""open day''" |
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31 |
"A print, possibly late 18th cent, showing a tiny Clewer Church in the foreground. The original Windsor Parish Church ((Demolished 1821) can be seen on the right of the Castle." |
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31** |
"Instructions, from Clewer Church records, for the seasonal decoration of the Church with evergreens from the churchyard; Dated 1728" |
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32 |
Fragments of plaster with the last surviving mediaeval paintwork. Discovered behind the reredos of the high altar. |
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32 (A) |
"NORTH, SOUTH, EAST and WEST from the weather vane on Clewer spire. Made at the Clewer Blacksmith's, mid 19th cent." |
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33 |
"Pencil sketch of the church copied in 1906 by Sister Agnes from a sketch which was ""dated 1822 or 1832." |
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34 |
Water colour of Clewer Church by F.H. Crace dated 1831. Before any churchyard extensions. |
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35 |
Painted. stone with thistle motif removed from church during 19th cent alterations.' |
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36 |
Sketch by Rothbury Everard. Circa 1900 |
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37 |
"Water colour of church, circa 1950 by John Spencer" |
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38 |
19th cent.. writing-box used for many years as a sewing box in the vestry. |
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39 |
"A carved bedpost which, crudely adapted, was used in Clewer Church as a pedestal for flowers." |
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39(A) |
Parish Magazine cover by A F Collins ARIBA 1920s. |
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40 |
"Water colour of Clewer Church, 1912, by Sister Agnes." |
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41 |
"Postcard of Clewer Church, printed in Saxony: 1900s." |
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42 |
Printing block used for magazine covers in the 1920s (see 39 (A) above) |
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43 |
Copper printing plate of Clewer Church font. Dug up in churchyard. |
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43(a) |
"A print of above. The font is in its ""middle period position"" on the east side of the church door." |
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44 |
"Oil painting of church from the cast painted by John Regan in 1968.' A ""lost view."" It was after the farm buildings had been demolished and before the Clewer Court Rd houses had been 'built." |
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45 |
"Photograph of the same view, taken in 1968, by Mr H Graves." |
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46 |
A lost view of Windsor Castle. |
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46(A) |
"A lead plate dated 1771 dug up during road work on Arthur Road, The names could be those of Clewer churchwardens." |
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47 |
Clewer Mothers' outing Jun 21 1909 They went on the Windsor Belle to Henley. |
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48 |
Clewer handbell ringers 1905-6. |
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49 |
"Clewer’s oldest extant parish register. Started in 1653. The appointment of Clewer's parish clerk is recorded and signed by Col. Christopher Whichcote who was Cromwell’s 'Governor of Windsor Castle. The register is open at the deaths entries for 1665," |
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50 |
Baroque candlesticks with wood and brass ‘candle savers’. |
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51 |
"Newspaper article on the founding of Clewer Convent for the rescue of "fallen women". |
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51(A) |
"Pages of a popular encyclopaedia, early 20th cent; in which Clewer gets a mention because of the importance of the Convent." |
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52 |
"The First Five Years of the House of Mercy by T.T. Carter. A photo-copy. Only 2 copies of this book are known to exist, published in 1855 it records the start of Carter's work, in Clewer, in the rescue of Prostitutes." |
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53 |
"Iron rainhead, 1854, from the earliest part of the Convent, built by T.T. Carter to house a Sisterhood to tend the rescued ""Fallen Women""." |
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54 |
"Photographs of St Andrew’s Hospital, convalescent home for the poor, which T.T. Carter built in 1861 It stood between the west side of Hatch Lane and the north side of Dedworth Rd. Demolished shortly after World War II." |
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54 (A) |
Broken crockery from St Andrew's hospital excavated in the Rectory garden. Research revealed that this crockery was borrowed from the hospital in 1893 to equip marquees which Rector Errington had erected behind the Rectory to provide accommodation and medical care for the victims of the Clewer smallpox epidemic. It lasted for months and when it was over the rector was presented with a large silver bowl from all the people of the parish, in acknowledgement of his compassion and courage [2 pieces]. |
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54 (B) |
"Along with the St Andrew's Hospital crockery a number of bottles containing coal tar were also excavated. The coal tar, it appears, was used to treat the small pox sores to prevent scarring." |
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54.(C) |
"A photograph showing in the background, the small-pox marquees; in the foreground small-pox patients and some staff borrowed from St Andrew's Hospital." |
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55 |
Pictures of wards in the Hospital. |
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56 |
A St Andrew’s Hospital chamber pot. |
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57** |
A souvenir booklet which patients at the Hospital could buy to take home after their stay. Note the red St Andrew's Cross as on the crockery. |
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57** |
"A colour photograph of the painting of Mariquita Tennant which hangs in the Convent Hatch Lane. Mrs Tennant, the Spanish widow of an English clergyman, lived at The Limes, (the timbered house next to the church) and she started the work of rescuing Windsor's fallen women which Carter took over the in late 1840s." |
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58 |
"Photograph, circa 1920 of Clewer churchyard. The arrow points to Mrs Tennant's grave originally a unique and elaborate affair; nobody knows what happened to it. At some stage it was replaced by a plain stone cross." |
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59 |
"Gravestone of two of the Magdalens. When the ""fallen women"" were completely ""rescued"" they were required to change their name to Magdalen after Mary Magdalen in the Gospels. Many are buried in Clewer Churchyard." |
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60/61 |
"An oil painting, and a testimonial. Two ladies who were associated with the Convent, but not full vows, founded, in 1872, St Andrew’s Cottage on Dedworth Road, for poor clergy widows. It is now an Abbeyfields Society House. Item No.60 is a testimonial " |
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62 |
"Photographs of Mr and Mrs Gladstone (the one of Gladstone in signed). They were friends of TT Carter’s and Gladstone, in his nightly walks through the streets of the West End, picked up many ‘fallen women’ to send to Clewer." |
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63 |
"Oil painting: the west end of St Alban’s, Holborn. This part of the church was destroyed by a bomb in World War II. The Clewer Sisters can be seen in the painting, reading in the shadows." |
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64 |
Clewer Choir and String Orchestra. photograph 1879. |
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65 |
Brass processional cross given in memory of Marcus Synott about whom nothing is known. The cross appears in the photograph - item 64 above. |
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66 |
"Porcelain figure of St John the Baptist, TT Carter’s favourite saint who was patron of the Convent." |
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67 |
"Sequestration account dated 1844. Carter’s predecessor, WH Roberts, was suspended for ‘intemperate conduct’ and the Rev RJ Gould was put into the Rectory as a locum. He prepared these accounts relating to his period of duty" |
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68 |
"Indenture St Agnes Church, Spital, the daughter church of Clewer, is unusual in that it is the personal property of the Rector. Built by Carter in 1874." |
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68(A) |
History of St Agnes Church by Valerie Bonham published 1983. |
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69 |
Register of services in Windsor Cemetery Chapel. Before St Agnes Church was built services were held for the people of Spital in the Cemetery Chapel. This is the register from 1867 to 1874. |
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70 |
This small font stood on a wooden pedestal and was used in the Chapel.. |
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71 |
"Miniature font, used for baptisms, at home, of babies who were ill." |
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71(A) |
"A newspaper account of the service held in Clewer Church on the death of Queen Victoria, with a summary of Rector Cowie’s sermon." |
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71(B) |
"A linen basket, 19th century, used for years in Clewer Church." |
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72/73 |
Photographs of TT Carter. |
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74 |
Photograph of the carving on the tomb of Quartermaster Adams who died on Church parade in 1819. Adams was a Cheshire man. |
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75 |
Carved stone from the tomb of Quartermaster Richard Barnes who died in 1811 aged 68: the 50th year of his service in the '.Royal Horse Guards. |
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Two stoles belonging to T.T Carter. Note the passion flower motif on the purple stole. |
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The passion-flower motif from another of Carter's stoles. |
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Photograph of Carter’s grave. Note the carved passion flowers. |
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A curtain which hung in the Brocas Chapel before the restoration of the Chapel following World War I. |
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Oil Painting of T.T. Carter. |
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Signed photograph of T.T. Carter 1900(2) |
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"Sketch of Carter’s Memorial in the Convent Chapel. Designed by G,F.Bodley" |
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Photograph of the bronze memorial to Carter in Clewer Church. Sculptor: W. Bainbridge Reynolds. |
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Photograph of the portrait in Eton College of Carter as a young man. |
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Clewer Church: water colour by Mary Littleton: 1983. |
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Clewer Church Lodge. Designed by Henry Woodyer 1866. |
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"Buildings of the United Service College, Windsor". |
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Books : Sermons by T.T. Carter etc. |
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Alms dish 17th century. |
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Two photographs of other 17th cent. furnishings in Clewer Church. |
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"Angel lectern in limewood and (2) a silver-gilt flagon actually made in the reign of Charles I but given to Clewer Church in the reign of Charles II. The flagon is on loan to the V. and A. Museum, The churches acquisition of alms dish, lectern and flagon after the restoration is perhaps circumstantial evidence that the church had been ransacked during the Commonwealth." |
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A letter from Sir Ninian Comper about his design for a window :In memory of Rectors Errington and Cowie. Also a photograph of the window which is in the Brocas Chapel. |
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The monthly packet of evening reading for members of the English Church. A bound volume of 1874 with an account of St Stephen’s Church and its place in the life of Windsor’s poor. |
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Copies of the School Magazine of St Stephen’s High School for Girls which was a TT Carter foundation and which was closed in 1934. |
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A 19th century lock from Clewer vestry door. |
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Clewer's old Baptismal Shell engraved with a scene of the Last Supper. |
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Pewter alms dishes or bread plates. Late l8th cent. made by Thos. Alderson of London. |
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"Pewter wine flagon presented to Clewer Church by James Tharlingloe in 1636. The "Pennant" which decorates one of the letters appears to be a crude representation of Clewer Church spire on its side." |
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"Coffin plate of Georgina Riley, aged 3, who died in 1833." |
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"A brass rubbing of the memorial in the Convent Chapel, Hatch Lane, to the first Mother Superior, Harriet Monsell. Before marriage she was Miss 0’Brien, sister to Lord Inchiquin, and sister also to William Smith O'Brien. He attempted an Irish rising again" |
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" Photographs of St Andrew's Cottages: almshouses on Dedworth Road, demolished in 1984. They were built in 1869. The double doors in the middle were to allow the passage of coffins from St Andrew's Hospital." |
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" A painting, on tin. This was the "badge" and motto of the first residents of the cottages. It hung on the wall of the passage between the two Sets of double doors." |
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A genealogy (presented by the O’Brien family) showing their claim to descent from King Brian Boru. |
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"A book of poems by Mrs Rita Mosscockle who bought the mansion, Clewer Park, from the Gooch family early this century. A local oral tradition recalls that she made strenuous efforts to look like Queen Alexandra and the frontispiece portrait confirms the tradition. An entry from Who's Who about Mrs Mosscockle is also displayed." |
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"A print of Martin Luther from the painting in Windsor Castle. Displayed because the ""last lineal descendants of the English branch of Martin Luther’s family"" are buried in Clewer Churchyard. They were the Kellners and it seems that they came to England". |
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"Photo-copy of a sketch of Lady Florence Dixie who, in the l9th century, lived at The Fisheries Maidenhead Rd. She was a daughter of Lord Queensberry and a noted eccentric." |
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"Photographs of a procession from the Convent to TT Carter's grave in 1933, to mark the centenary of the start of the Oxford Movement." |
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"Photograph of Clewer's War Memoria1, Dedworth Rd., when first erected circa 1920. The buildings in the background are part of St Andrew's Hospital." |
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"A photograph of part of the house, Clewer Park, in the days of its dilapidation. It was used by the WRNS in World War I and II and was then demolished. Originally the mansion of the Proctor family (see water colour in the Passage) it was leased " |
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"A ""Spy"" Cartoon from ""Vanity Fair."" Sir Daniel Gooch locomotive engineer for the Great Western Railway., Chairman of the Company, MP and man of many other accomplishments. He built the terraced cottages which take up the south west side of Mill Lane and his arms are car" |
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A photograph of Gooch. |
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"A tribute to Gooch, Buckinghamshire & Berkshire Countryside." |
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A sketch of Mill Lane (circa 1939 ?) showing the Swan and the cottages built by Gooch. |
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A biographical essay by Henry Parris about Gooch. |
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"A Great Western Railway brass badge found locally, perhaps from a Railway horse's trappings." |
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A gravestone for one of Mrs Mosscockle’s horses. She had a cemetery for her horses and dogs in the grounds of Clewer Park. |
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"Photographs of Clewer's Police Station, built in 1879. The building is now a parade of shops on Clarence Rd which include the Post Office." |
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"Photograph of Nigger, England's first police dog. He was at Clewer Police Station, having been given by Sir Theodore Brinckman of St Leonard's Hill. (Photo from the Illustrated London News 1911)" |
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A brick from the police station building. |
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"A bill from Clewer's first police station, which stood land to the east of Mill Lane on Maidenhead Rd. The bill is from The Swan landlord when the Clewer Churchwardens had entertained the police to beer, lunch and dinner, for Christmas." |
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"A Mothers' Union 'banner, made for Clewer Church at the Convent." |
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A Clewer Mothers' Union Membership card. |
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"A cast iron sign for Eton/Clewer ferry. Dredged up from the river, sand-blasted and painted by Mr David Pickin." |
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Iron fireplace dating back to 1866 when the Lodge was built. |
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