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This is our news feed for this website. Things are listed here in date order with the most recent at the top and the older posts at the bottom of the page, or on subsequent pages. To open one, click on the image (if one is present), or the title or read more link to open it.
Audio and Video
We are interested in capturing anyone's recollections of Prestwood over the years; either as an audio recording with accompanying images or a video of the person speaking with accompanying images. If this is something you might be interested in participating in please...
Rebuild Completed
11th September 2025 The website rebuild is complete. Summary of content is listed below along with links to the respective locations. Links Pages Galleries Articles Posts Prestwood Archive 2 19 1 4 13 1900 - 1920 23 5 10 7 1920 - 1940 9 5 2 3 1940 - 1960 7 2 6 3 1960...
Rebuilding Prestwood Archive
In December 2024, 11 years after this website was built, a significant redesign and rebuild started. It is currently the 12th of January 2025. The top level website has been redesigned using a modern template, and the first section from 1900 to 1920 has also been...
1980 – 2000 image galleries update
The following photo galleries have been added and/or revised in the 1980-2000 period. Schools (20 images) Sports (12 images) Businesses (17 images) Prestwood Scenes (4 images) Visit the Galleries page by following this link: Image Galleries (1980-2000)
Update to 2000 – present day
We now have 4 image galleries in this section. They are: Aviva women cycle race 2015 Prestwood Business Roads and houses Census 2011 evaluation for Prestwood Follow this link to go to the image galleries.
Update May 2015
(amended and corrected September 2016) 1900 - 1920 Image galleries have grown as this website has been put together. The period 1900 - 1920 has been split into several galleries. Follow this link to go to the 1900-1920 gallery launch page. It currently contains two...
New Section available for 1941-1960
Added Feb 2015 We now have a gallery page set up for this period. At the time of writing it includes four items. A directory listing of all of the houses in Prestwood and who lived there from 1952. Scanned version of an article written by Derek Saddler in 2000 about...
World War One (April 2014)
A new article has been added to the section covering 1900-1920. This is based on a document created by Mark Cunnane and has been incorporated into the website along with images. The new section includes a poem about the 30 men who lost their lives in the Great War and...
Update 4/12/13
(Edited and corrected September 2016) A set of images have been uploaded to the site for the period 1900 - -1920. You can locate them by following this link: https://prestwoodarchive.org.uk/1900to1920/image-gallery
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