BBC Radio Berkshire
Places in Berkshire that tell a story of World War One
Southampton Street, Reading: Model for Feeding the Nation
Bringing fame to Reading as the economic model for how to feed a nation at war
Suttons Seeds, Reading: Business Family Devastated by War
Supplying seeds to the country but the family loses four out of five sons to war
Wokingham Police Station: Constables Prepare for Alien Invasion
Building barricades to defend Wokingham against invasion
Bisham Abbey: Living War Memorial
Struggling estate turns into military hospital and produces vegetables for the Navy
Eton Wick, Windsor: Babies Welcome
Eton Wick village hall hosts one of the first rural baby clinics in 1915
Windsor Castle, Berkshire: The Royal Family
King George V breaks with his German ancestry and renames the Royal family
Reading Gaol, Forbury Road: Internment for Aliens and Irish
Reading Gaol replaces criminals with enemy aliens and Irish political prisoners
Bridge Street, Reading: Sending Beer to Troops
H & G Simonds encouraged breweries to send beer to the fronts
University College, Reading: Women’s Mission to French Farms
Women speakers visit French farms in 1916 to inspire English women to work on the land
Yeomanry House, Reading: From Farm to Front Line – the War Horse
Riding school at Berkshire Yeomanry headquarters equips farmers and bankers
Reading, Berkshire: Diary of a Wartime Teenager
Life as a teenage girl in Reading during wartime recorded in unique diary
Royal Military College Sandhurst, Camberley: Changes in Military
Abolishing tuition fees and shortens military training to produce enough troops
Reading, Berkshire: Boosting the Spirits of War Wounded
Volunteers provide care and comforts for the wounded in Reading’s War Hospitals
Reading, Berkshire: Was the Steel Helmet Prototype Developed Here?
Did these biscuit tin makers develop the prototype for the steel helmet?
Sandham Memorial, Burghclere: Frontline Inspires Spencer’s Chapel
Sir Stanley Spencer vividly depicted everyday life on the frontline
Wantage Hall, Reading: Pilots Lodged in Trees
Fuselages were lodged in trees at Wantage Hall to train WW1 fighter pilots
Reading War Hospital, Berkshire: Magazine Reflects Wartime Life
‘The Ration’ gives an insight into hospital life through jokes, stories and sketches
Highclere Castle, Newbury: Luxurious Hospital for Wounded Soldiers
The Countess who donned a nurses uniform and set up a hospital for soldiers
Reading, Berkshire: Meeting the Growing Demand for Medical Supplies
Volunteers make crutches, bandages, clothes and artificial limbs for the wounded
Goring Heath Farm, Berkshire/Oxfordshire: Land Girls Ploughing Fields
Keeping farms going when men went to fight
Cliveden, Berkshire: Lady Astor’s Red Cross Hospital
Waldorf and Nancy Astor open hospital for Canadian soldiers on lavish Cliveden estate
Reading, Berkshire: The Boy Who Fooled the Army
A Reading mother claimed her underage son back from Berkshire Yeomanry
Eton, Berkshire: A College Devastated by War
Officers off to war, growing potatoes and a headmaster who was forced to resign
Newbury, Berkshire: Racecourse Turned into War Camp
Prisoners lived in stables at the Racecourse when it was turned into an internment camp
