page_title: Murder of Mark Tildesley
section_title: Mark Tildesley
hierarchical_section_title: Murder of Mark Tildesley / Background and disappearance / Mark Tildesley
caption_attribution_description: Hall Houses from late 14th to early 16th Century behind later facades in Rose Street, Wokingham
context_page_description: Mark Anthony Tildesley was an English schoolboy who disappeared, at the age of seven, on 1 June 1984, whilst visiting a fair in his home town of Wokingham in Berkshire.
  A widespread search was promptly conducted in the Wokingham area, involving both police officers and British Army soldiers, but no trace of Tildesley was ever discovered.
  As part of the investigation, a national poster campaign was launched, with one displayed in every police station in the country. Tildesley's disappearance was publicised in the local Wokingham Times and also featured prominently in national newspapers. The Times, the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror all covered the story, and the case appeared in ITV's Thames News. The disappearance was mentioned on the first ever episode of BBC Crimewatch UK in 1984 and a full reconstruction was aired on the same programme a year later. Despite a huge public response, however, these efforts brought little concrete evidence.
  In 1989, Tildesley's disappearance was linked to the Operation Orchid investigation into missing children.
context_section_description: Mark Anthony Tildesley was born on 31 August 1976 in Berkshire to John Tildesley and Lavinia Rachel Gwladys Tildesley.
  Tildesley had a brother, Christopher, who was born in 1963, and a sister, Christina (born 1959), who had moved out of the family home to live in nearby Finchampstead with her husband, Ted, and their daughter, Mary, who was born in 1981.
  The Tildesleys lived at 1 Rose Court, off Rose Street, in Wokingham town centre. It was a combination of a small semi-detached cottage and an adjoining bungalow annexe (the bungalow annexe has since been demolished and re-built as a separate house called 1a Rose Court as of 2010, leaving the original cottage as a mid-terrace).
  Tildesley was a Year 3 pupil of the Palmer C of E Junior School (renamed All Saints CE (Aided) Primary School in 2009) in Norreys Avenue in Wokingham.
caption: The entrance to Rose Court, off Rose Street, where the Tildesleys lived
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