A Winter Walk Through BRACKNELL | Berkshire UK | December 2023

[@George19672010]

I remember spending a few weeks with my nan in Bracknell, every summer holiday's when i was a kid.

[@warpedweft9004]

I didn't recognise much except the bridge right near the station, until it got to 4:02. I recognise those cement flag stones. They were used in the shopping area of Bracknell. One of the first indoor "malls" was built there. The same coloured pavers can be seen in the shopping centre in Easthampstead. I suppose being a kid, I spent quite a bit of time looking at them and not the shops when we went to Bracknell. There used to be a big open air carpark, which became a market on Saturdays. Occasionally we walked into Bracknell from Easthampstead as we lived close to the Bagshot Road. There used to be an old shop, a general store, along there called The Orchard Stores. It must have also been a delicatessen because I can remember the rich delli smell of the place. I loved it because sometimes Mum would buy us some smarties or a kit kat. Unfortunately, Mum passed away around the time this video was made. I'd have liked to have shown it to her. We left the UK in 1974, and Mum never went back.

[@willpalmer2760]

Good idea about the car parking. It is a right hassle! Keep up the good content.

[@sallycrane6317]

I used to take my daughter to Bracknell to do a bit of shopping about 20 years ago they used to have a sort of fountain that squirted water up which the kids used to love playing in and a huge sand box in the summer holidays called Bracknell at the beach. It looks to be wll gone now. Fun memories

[@stevev238]

Lived a year in Bracknell 2006-7 Seems to have survived better than most my former home towns I've checked in on today.

[@warpedweft9004]

In regard to your question around 6 minutes, as to whether you could once drive through there, the answer is no, at least, not in the 1960s you couldn't. It was built with the mall on one side and a big open area that I remember. Fromn the way you were walking down the mall to start with, the market I mentioned would have been over to the left. You went down to the end of the mall, turned left and walked a way down there to the market. It seemed a long way but I was only a little kid, so it may not have been that far.

[@warpedweft9004]

The new town building started in the late 1950s and into the early 60s, but it looks like it has continued since then. I was born in one of the estates on the edge of Bracknell (Easthampstead) and we lived there until I was 8, in the 1960s

[@stevev238]

Is the fantastic all you can eat Chinese place still there?