Slough Nostalgia - Looking at old photos from yesteryear

We have dove into our achieves and found photos from the town and its surrounding areas, which show how life was so different when technology wasn’t as prominent.

The images we have chosen this week go back to the early 1900s, whilst some show Slough in 1938 – one year before the start of the Second World War.

For example, one of the images in question shows the Mayor of Slough being presented with the Borough Charter, with other dignitaries looking on in awe by Lascelles Playing Fields in September 1938.

The Mayor being presented with the Borough Charter in 1938

Speaking of the Mayor, he was joined by the Duke of Kent in July of that year to celebrate the opening of a new school in the area.

The Duke of Kent at the school in Slough

Away from the Mayor, we discovered a photo of a horse and cart surrounded by cattle near Farnham Common on a road going from Beaconsfield and Slough.

Sticking with animals, here is a man holding a bucket from which a carthorse is drinking, with another horse behind in Langley in 1947.

A man and his horse in the 1940s

And a year previously in 1946, a sheepdog was spotted watching a flock of sheep near the area.

Catching cattle in the South East

Keeping on guard

Two years earlier in 1944, a platoon of soldiers were seen near the Bucks/Berks border and Going back 20 years from then, a single-decked bus from the British Bus Company was spotted in and around the county in approximately 1920.

The army near Slough

An old fashion bus in Slough