Early Independents of the Bracknell and Crowthorne area
The talk is fully illustrated and full of a mix of Local, Social and Transport History, tracing the various local providers of road passenger transport from around 1900 to the 1960s.
The meeting is free to members of Berkshire Family History Society and we request a donation of £5 from non-members.
Branch library available to members to borrow books. Refreshments available. Car park outside the hall.
Date
- Fri 20 Jun 2025
Time
Doors open at 2.15pm for meeting to start at 2.45pm- 14:15 - 17:00
Location
- The New Priestwood Community Centre, Priestwood Court Road, Bracknell, Berkshire RG42 1TU
Organiser
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Bracknell Branch - Berkshire FHS
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Email
bracknell@berksfhs.org.uk
Speaker
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Paul LaceyPaul is a local historian, primarily concentrating on road passenger transport, with 16 books so far published, also interested in various other topics.
Now retired, he was latterly a Local Authority Transport Co-ordinator, and for the past 10 years Chairman of the Provincial Historical Research Group of the Omnibus Society, as well as an archivist for a local transport trust. He lives in Wokingham, previously in Bracknell, being a New Towner arriving from London as a boy in 1957.