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The Stanley Spencer Gallery at the top of Cookham High Street.

Tour: ‘Paradise Regained’ at the Stanley Spencer Gallery

The gallery’s latest exhibition coincides with the centenary of the start of WWI and examines the effect the war had on the young artist. Stanley was one of five Spencer brothers, all of whom fought in the Great War; his older brother Sydney died at Epehy in September 1918, and is the only holder of the Military Cross remembered on the Cookham village war memorial.

War Horse Q&A – 19 August 2010

A great organisation that my Mum’s known about for a long time is ‘Kids’ Week’. Every summer, the event (which is now, ironically, a fortnight long) offers free tickets to children to see some...