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Dist:0.3km<br/>Viewed looking upstream at the end of the culvert under the railway.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>The subway links Salt Hill Park and Baylis Road under the former Great Western Railway's main line. There are actually two subways here. The far one is the earlier and still carries the main line. The nearer one was built to accommodate a head shunt for the sidings serving [[206647]]. The trackwork has however long since been removed from this. However the original, and still continuing function, of this hole through the railway embankment was to allow the passage of Salt Hill Stream, which is now culverted itself under the subway.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>This Sikh temple is by Woodlands Avenue opposite Baylis Grounds.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.3km<br/>Boarded up and slowly deteriorating one wonders how much longer disused municipal facilities of this type, of which there must be thousands up and down the land, will be left standing. They are redolent of an earlier age of innocence and naivety.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>The busy junction between the A4 Bath Road, and the A355 which joins the M4 at Junction 6. It is known as "The Three Tuns" after the pub shown here.
©Darren Smith
Dist:0.4km<br/>Ducks struggle to cope with a frozen surface after a cold January night. Baylis Pond is in what used to be the grounds of Baylis House which now form a public park. The 1881 Edition of the Ordnance Survey mapping shows the pond with a far more formal rectangular shape. At some point the south-western corner has been filled in, all the other corners rounded off, and some bird-nesting islands introduced.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>A view of [[1235407]] seen from the other side near Woodlands Avenue.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km<br/>Slough fire station, Tuns Lane, Slough, Berkshire
©Kevin Hale
Dist:0.4km<br/>A local benefactor, James Elliman, provided the space and paid for the landscaping when the park was opened in 1907. The Barn dates from that time and was built to provide facilities for users of the park, although it does give the impression of being a cricket pavilion above anything else. It is now in use as an Indian restaurant called the Park View.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>Viewed looking away from Slough from the A355 Farnham Road bridge.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>The path runs parallel to Baylis Road (right), connecting Stoke Poges Lane to Baylis Grounds.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>It's a sign of changing demand for facilities but the grass on the old bowling green now grows roughly where there was once a fine green sward. In 2006 the local council wanted to build a splash park on this site ready to celebrate the park's centenary in 2007 but were unsuccessful with their application for competitive lottery funding.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>The 1881 Ordnance Survey map describes this earthwork as The Mount, a Supposed Barrow. At that time the Mount was the main feature in the hamlet of Salt Hill. The urban sprawl of Slough had yet to consume it. However the mound's main claim to fame is that until 1844 it was the destination of the Eton Montem when every Whit Tuesday the boys of Eton College [[345572]] marched, army-style, to the location collecting 'salt' or money from visitors and passers-by. The ceremony dated back until at least 1561 and was regularly patronized by Royalty. In its later years it became a triennial event, with the tickets to the 1838 event costing one shilling. However in 1844 the masters of the College decided that the boys should be studying rather than indulging time in making their Montem costumes, decided that the ceremony was anachronistic and should be abandoned forthwith. In truth the real reason for its demise was that with the advent of the railways the ceremonies of 1841 and 1844 had attracted rowdy crowds brought by train from London, and the authorities feared that a serious riot could break out in a subsequent event. The Times, reporting the 1844 event tongue-in-cheek, described the crowd as "mixed"... Evidently the hoi-polloi were not to be welcomed. One wonders what would happen today if the ceremony was to be revived...!
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>One of Slough Community Leisure's venues, the latest attractions at the arena http://www.sloughleisure.com/sia/index.html are foamtastic evenings and ice karting. The arena is also the home of Slough Jets http://www.sloughjets.co.uk/ ice hockey team who play in the English Premier Ice Hockey League. This view was taken from the top of [[1114264]].
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>The path across the recreation ground forms part of a cycle route to Farnham Royal. It's a foggy day around Slough.
©Derek Harper

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