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7 unusual facts about Cookham


B. G. Henry

Glynn Henry was well known in Cookham Berkshire during the 1950s and 1969s where he owned the chemist shop on the High Street for over twenty years, 'The Old Apothecary'.

Bregowine

One records that he protested at the loss of a church at Cookham that was confiscated by King Cynewulf of Wessex sometime after 760.

Esther D. du Pont

In 1953 she married for a second time to John Rupert Hunt Thouron, a native of Cookham in Berkshire, England.

Isaac Pocock

Pocock died at Ray Lodge, Maidenhead, on 23 August 1835, and was buried in the family vault at Cookham.

Let's Rock The Moor!

Let's Rock The Moor! is an annual boutique and family-friendly 1980s music festival held in Cookham, Berkshire.

Nicholas Pocock

He died on 9 March 1821 at the home of his oldest son, Isaac, in Raymead in the parish of Cookham, near Maidenhead, and is buried in the parish church there.

Taecanet

Schools like Holy Trinity Primary School in Cookham report that using Taecanet with their Year 6 students has increased their Science SATs results by up to 50%.


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Companion Gal

The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, South Wales and at The Mill in Cookham.

Hedsor Water

The paper made at nearby Cookham Paper Mill was shipped from there and the stone used to build Shardeloes was brought from Oxford to Hedsor Wharf.

Joseph Bosisto

Bosisto is the son of William Bosisto and Maria née Lazenby, of Cookham, Berkshire, and was born on March 21, 1827, at Hammersmith.

Keesonic Loudspeakers

Keesonic Loudspeakers were designed by Peter Keeley and built in a factory in Cookham Dean, near Marlow, Bucks, UK.

Kenneth Grahame

On Grahame's retirement, they returned to Cookham where he had lived as a child, and lived at "Mayfield", now Herries Preparatory School, where he turned the bedtime stories he told Alastair into his masterpiece.

Odney

This fine mid-18th century country house was once rented by Colonel Francis Ricardo, the first car owner in Cookham, who was High Sheriff of Berkshire in the early 1900s and supposedly the inspiration for Kenneth Grahame's Toad, in the Wind in the Willows.

Toby Cruse

In 2002, for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, a portrait of Cruse was painted by Timmy Mallett as part of a series of 50 portraits of people from around Cookham, Berkshire.


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