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NEW LOCAL HISTORY BOOK ON SALE IN MUSEUM BOOKSHOP: 
‘The Changing Face of Slough’, £14.99
This new history of Slough gives an insight into the dramatic changes that have taken place in the borough over the last 100 years. The story is fully illustrated with over 300 photographs from the archive at the Slough Museum.
Slough, its boundaries, wards, people and places are continually changing and this new book on the history of Slough gives an insight into the dramatic changes that have taken place over the last 100 years, offering a new look at ‘the changing face of Slough’.
The book is divided into chapters looking at the history of the wards that make up the borough - Central, Upton, Wexham Lea, Cippenham, Chalvey, Baylis, Farnham, Stoke, Britwell, Haymill, Langley St Mary’s, Foxborough, Kedermister, and Colnbrook with Poyle. The book has been made possible by extensive research undertaken by local people and groups, and by information derived from the extensive archives held by the Slough Museum.
DIGITISATION OF THE MUSEUM'S COLLECTION - Grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), The Pilgrim Trust, The People's Purse, Co-op, SEMLAC and the Slough Social Fund will provide visitors to the museum with a quick, easy-to-use way of accessing its entire collection for the first time. We want to know what you would like to see on a public terminal in the museum. Would you like particular themes that you can search by, or perhaps dates or subjects? Please let us know.
The grants will help to create a digital record of all 13,000 objects and photographs, which will be accessible to visitors via computer terminals in the museum’s exhibition space. Currently, only 10% the museum’s collection is on display. Information on the other 90 per cent is stored manually and sifting through it can be time-consuming.
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