A note from the administrator.

I have had to close the forum to new members. Registration is shut. I'm sorry for it - but I can no longer vouch for who comes through the door.

You may also find that certain older topics are no longer where you left them. I have, with great reluctance, removed a small number of threads and posts from this forum. I did so at the written request of a firm of solicitors acting for the landowner, who hold that the material touched on matters they would prefer were not aired in public.

I have complied, because I am one man and they are not. I want it set down plainly, here, that I did so under protest, and that I do not accept the grounds. Nothing removed was untrue. Nothing removed was anyone's business to suppress.

But I will not delete this board. What is left here stays, and you may read it for as long as I can keep the lights on. I have locked the doors; I have not burned the house. I have kept copies of everything. I would ask, gently, that those of you who hold anything of your own do the same.

E. Selwood

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incomer_dave
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Hello from a new member

#1 Post by incomer_dave »

Hello all. Dave, moved out to the village from Reading last year, working from home now and finally getting to know the area properly. This forum has already taught me more local history than I picked up in forty years of driving past it on the M4. Just wanted to say hello and thanks. Any tips for a townie still finding his feet very welcome.
An incomer, and not ashamed of it. Twelve years and still learning the place.
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Avebury_Janet
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#2 Post by Avebury_Janet »

Welcome Dave! You will fit right in, you are already asking the right questions. Do come to a history society meeting if the mood takes you, first Saturday, all welcome. And ignore anyone who calls you a blow-in for less than thirty years; it is meant affectionately. Mostly.
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Cherhill_Bill
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#3 Post by Cherhill_Bill »

welcome. youll know youre a proper local when you start complaining about the second-homers, which round here takes about a fortnight. give it time.
born under Cherhill, never moved more than five mile from it.
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incomer_dave
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#4 Post by incomer_dave »

ha, noted Bill. im already side-eyeing the cottage three doors down thats dark eleven months of the year, so maybe im further along than i thought.
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