Maidenhead News - maidenhead.net

This page links to pages of town news - latest news first.

Maidenhead United FA Cup Report - 21 November 2006
Maidenhead Heritage Centre appeal - trying to purchase a permanent home
Car crashes into Thames near Boulter's Lock - see photos - 15 February 2005
Jubilee River prevents major flooding in Maidenhead, 5 January 2003
Foot and mouth disease precautions - Ockwells park closes, 9 March 2001
Snow falls in Maidenhead, 28 December 2000
December 2000 flooding, and more photos - 16 December 2000
Flood warning, and extra photos - 7 November 2000
Cinema opens, 15 September 2000
Fuel shortage, 12 September 2000
Travellers on parkland, 25 August 2000
Shoppenhangers Manor fire, 19 June 2000

Flooding in Maidenhead

Office plan rejected, 12 June 2000
Bye bye chicanes, 8 June 2000
Grenfell progress, March 2000
Grenfell site progress - foundation work starts, June 1999
Cinema complex - work begins, March 1999
Cinema comlex approved, King Street to be pedestrianised, November 1998
Pallet store arson attack, May 1998

You may also be interested in looking at the Maidenhead Advertiser web site. The paper version is published every Friday, priced 25p. Established in 1869, it includes "From Our Files" - a look back at the stories from previous year's editions. One story from May 1878 caught our eye:

Two ne'er-do-wells, charged by borough magistrates with "tickling pretty nursemaids under the chin" came in for a lambasting from Looker-On [a form of editorial]. "Girls shrink from rude touches and course salutes as plants do from frost," he wrote. "I am afraid there is only one way of making our roads safe and pleasant to the petite femmes, and that is by placing a constable somewhere at hand with a stout bamboo in his grip. Roughs, like weeds, flourish most in neglected by-ways and obscure corners."

How times change!