TIMES PAST

Sat 22nd October 1864, The Reading Mercury

CHARITIES

On Wednesday, the Alderman and Corporation as Trustees of Archbishop Laud’s Charity, met to award two apprenticeship premiums of £21 each, to boys born in the town of Wokingham, when Watkin William Wynn and Jan Taylor were elected. They afterwards distributed the charity of Mrs Yarnold to blind persons when the sum of £35 ten shillings was divided amongst ten candidates.

Sat 12th November 1864

POST OFFICE

It may not be generally known that considerable alterations have recently taken place in the dispatch of the mails from Wokingham. The box closes at 7.20 in the evening for the ordinary mail, and for the day mail at 12, at noon, and these two mails are the only ones made up, the early morning mail to Reading being discontinued, so that all letters for our own neighbourhood must now be posted by 7.20 p.m.