Photographic History - Acknowledgements

Dear Reader,

Apart from Dr. Judith Hunter's book The Story of a Village. Eton Wick 1217-1977, there has been no other general work on the community until this, the year of the Millennium. Every effort has been taken to ensure that the facts, dates and identifications in this book are as accurate as possible. Nevertheless, we acknowledge that the discerning reader may be able to offer corrections or additional information. We would welcome your help in updating our records.

We hope you enjoy this book, and that its contents will provide an interesting insight into our community.

The Authors

Windsor Castle from Victoria Road, Eton Wick.

This photograph was taken in 1947. It looks eastwards to the Castle over Meux's Field (then the Shepherds Hut public house paddock), allotments at the rear of the Village Hall, the recreation ground, and then South Field to the Great Western Railway viaduct. The houses of Princes Close now cover most of Meux's Field and the Windsor and Eton Relief Road obscures the railway viaduct.

Acknowledgements

The Eton Wick History Group would like to express its appreciation to the following:

The Royal Albert Institute Trust and the Millennium Festival 'Awards for All' Fund for their financial help. 

The Leicestershire Records Office for permission to reproduce the photographs taken by George Henton. 

Mr A B Demaus for permission to reproduce the photographs taken by his father, the Rev. Demaus. 

The many other people who have generously supplied photographs: Mr John Austin, Mrs Joan Ballhatchet, Mr George Birch, Mrs and Miss Campion, Mr William Cooley, Mr Tony Cullum, Mr John Denham, Mrs Margaret Everitt, Mr David Gibson, Mrs Mary Gyngell, Mrs Pat Hodge, Dr Judith Hunter, Mrs Brenda Irvin, Mrs Joan Neighbour, Mrs Rita Pidgeon, Mrs Margaret Springford, Mr Cyril Tarrant, Mr Jamie Tarrant, Mrs Olive Tarrant, Mrs Rene Thompson and Mrs Jean Tyler.

To Mrs Joan Ballhatchet, Mrs Mary Gyngell and Mrs Teresa Stanton our thanks for proofreading the text throughout. 

The many other people and organisations who have helped with local knowledge and assistance with this book including: 

The Over 60s Club, The Women's Institute, The Village Hall Committee, and the local Libraries and Press. 

The Group would also like to record their thanks to their colleagues Mr Peter Tarrant for compiling the publication, Mr Jonathan Palmer for his assistance and guidance in its printing and distribution, and to Mr Frank Bond, who collated the great majority of the photographs and without whose enthusiasm the project would probably not have been executed. 

We have made every effort to establish copyright where appropriate and to obtain permission to reproduce, but if we have inadvertently omitted to do so in any particular instance we offer our sincere apologies.