Talk:Slough

message: I reverted the claim that the Slough Mars factory was the original (opened by Forest Mars in the 1930s) - there was an earlier one opened by Frank Mars (Forest's father) in N. Oak Park Avenue, Chicago in 1929. Ian Cairns 13:46, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Mars factory

message: The following addition of the first para has been removed: "...generally regarded as the most depressing town known to humanity. Slough is also considered the ugliest place in the world. In 2006 a government enquiry was launched to investigate the possibilty of razing the town to the ground along with all its inhabitants. A government spokesman said "Slough is a blight on England's green and pleasant land, and the sooner we get rid of it the better." 
It was just vandalism. Dieter Simon 00:54, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: POV removed

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slough&diff=42332961&oldid=42185967
It might be an idea to make a more neutral revision of that edit ...
Fyver528 12:21, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV Problem 

message: Checking the History, you'll see that I've made numerous additions and have also reworked parts of the article.
Famous people associated with Slough has been changed to a chronological list from an alphabetical one.
The History section has been greatly expanded and split into Pre-Trading Estate and Post-Trading Estate for ease of read, and also because I felt that it's creation was such an important event for the town.
Added the In Praise of Slough section to highlight positive points within the town, to counterbalance the Criticism section.
Vastly updated the Transport section.
Updated the introductary text and reordered it.
Updated and organised the External Links section.
Added the Twinned Towns section.
Added the Heart of Slough Project section, and I will be writing the article for that soon.
Added the Geography section and organised the suburbs into a list.
Kwikblade 22:09, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Changes made and direction of the article

message: Somebody has just commented that Slough is "a suburb of London", and that this began during industrialisation. I have never considered nor been aware of Slough being so. Would the author like to comment, and other people please have their say regarding this statement? Maramotus 11:35, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Slough as a suburb

message: For anyone interested in taking this further, a google for ' "charles dickens" slough ' turned up this web page: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/7.html
This is a report titled "Major Biographies of Dickens -- a Critical Overview", written by Philip V. Allingham, Contributing Editor, Victorian Web; Faculty of Education, Lakehead University.
The report mentions a biography of Dickens, written in 1991 by Peter Ackroyd, which the author regards as a scholarly tome. To quote directly from the report: "Very much a literary detective, Ackroyd also tracks Ellen's residences carefully, noting for example that in Slough Dickens lived near the Ternans under the alias Charles or John Tringham."
The biography in question is: Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens: A Biography. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990.
Since it would appear that Ackroyd has done the research we are looking for here, it would be worth someone following up this lead.
EdJogg 09:21, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New reference

message: Does anyone think a 'Government' section should be added after the history section? This would explain the type of local government that operates in the Slough Borough.
Kwikblade 20:20, 17 June 2007
: There is an article on Slough Borough Council which is not as well linked from Slough as it might be. My feeling is that the best thing to do would be to move most of the local government content there - which should help reduce the size of the main article. I think it would be worth shipping most of the history into a separate History of Slough article too. Grblundell 17:11, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Local Government

message: Well I have tried to make the article look more user friendly interms of coding and reading. I have separated the orginial infobox into a more organised way at looking at data. I have redone some sections and added more details to some bits. Any spelling/language errors need to me checked. also we need more photos and details of Education institutions etc. Thanks.. --Sloughian (talk) 01:38, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated 

message: The Town Hall is only obliquely mentioned here, which I am surprised at. I just discovered an article about the architect Charles Holloway James, who apparently "designed the municipal buildings at Slough" (presumably implying the town hall.) I've linked here from his article, but it would seem appropriate to link the other way too.
EdJogg (talk) 12:34, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Town Hall 

message: Because of Betjeman's pre-war poem, Slough, I thought it meet to add in the History section mention of Slough's actual experience of air raids, directly and through the Emergency Hospital for London casualties.  I have provided information based on CWGC civilian casualty reports for the Slough Municipal Borough. (The civilian casualties obviously would not include any service personnel killed in the raids.)  I hesitate to judge them minor or major raids as I lack information about effects on townscape and industries (I am not local), and am aware some deaths could have been caused by bombs being jettisoned rather than targeted attacks. Users better acquainted with Slough's local history of the period can elaborate on my paragraph.Cloptonson (talk) 19:32, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thing is while the casualty records point towards there having been air raids I don't think the records amount to a reliable source for what you have written.  As we know Wikipedia firstly works off information which is verifiable rather than anecdotes or recollections even first hand ones. I think though it should be simple enough to find a newspaper article etc that will provide an account of events.Tmol42 (talk) 21:12, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The Germans were clearly not Betjeman fans and hardly bombed Slough at all. https://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/18483578.bombs-fell-slough-ww2---see-road-hit/ Another source says that only 60 bombs fell on the whole area that is now Slough, only five of them on the Trading Estate. Seemingly 270 war-related deaths were recorded locally, but many of those may have been London air-raid casualties brought out to the Slough hospital. http://www.postcards-from-slough.co.uk/home/slough-at-war/world-war-two/ The Germans' reluctance to bomb Slough is curious given the Trading Estate's industrial importance. High Duty Alloys, on the Trading Estate, produced the Hiduminum alloy from which Rolls-Royce Merlin aero-engines' pistons were made, and German documents suggest that they were aware of High Duty Alloys and its location. There was a single large explosion at HDA just after 11pm on 13 July 1940, killing 3 workers and injuring 30. It was a completely isolated explosion, there was no other indication of a raid and no enemy aircraft had been detected on radar or heard overhead by locals (except one retired colonel who later said he'd heard an aircraft very high up making two passes), nor had the ack-ack opened up. The RAF's investigation file, now in the National Archives (it was secret till 1971) is titled 'The Slough Bomb Mystery.' The C-in-C Fighter Command, Hugh Dowding, thought the explosion was IRA sabotage. The government's Chief Inspector of Explosives said the crater looked like the result of an air-dropped bomb, but no surviving fragments of a German bomb casing were found. And quite how the Germans could have achieved such a perfect drop from high altitude, and quite why they would have used just a single bomb from a single aircraft on such a worthwhile target, was never established. Dowding did concede that there were two reports of 'X Raids' that night, meaning raiders reported by ground or naval observers but not tracked on radar, one of which could conceivably have reached Slough just after 11pm. But the Slough Bomb Mystery was never really solved. https://cippenham.org/slough-bomb-mystery/ Khamba Tendal (talk) 22:57, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: World War II

message: There appears to be the beginnings of an edit war developing with regard to the inclusion or not of information concerning the distance of Slough from London. Can I encourage the editors concerned and other interested parties to come and discuss it here rather than endlessly reverting each other and or adding oblique  edit summaries etc. Perhaps I can suggest a prior look at Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements might be useful.Tmol42 (talk) 17:28, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, Tmol42, for directing me to that article. It seems to have a clear direction with regard to the above item with regard to its inclusion in the Lead. Rosemary Cheese (talk) 21:06, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inclusion of distance from London in Lead 

message: There is no mention of the shopping amenities in Slough.   This seems like an omission.  FreeFlow99 (talk) 22:22, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shopping 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I've requested semi-protection, given the length of time this "isorrow" vandalism has been going on. Pinkbeast (talk) 16:35, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Youtube nonsense 

message: For the avoidance of doubt, re recent edits, it seems utterly pointless to me to insert a word in order to state that white British people are indigenous to Britain. It's also wrong; the degree of intermingling with the Continent over the centuries means most "white British" people are not remotely indigenous peoples. I suppose there may be someone in the depths of Wales who knows all their ancestors have been Welsh since before the Roman Conquest... but I doubt it. Pinkbeast (talk) 11:00, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The original poster is merely demonstrating a misunderstanding of the term 'indigenous', instead regarding it as some sort of marker of racial purity. It is not, nor has it ever been. If it were, then there would be no indigenous people on Earth. Indigeneity is about identity and connection to a land before the mass arrival of others. It is about possessing a connection to the land where one lives. Only white British people have this connection to the United Kingdom. Yes, there will be many who know that they have family who came elsewhere, but again, that is not a negator of being indigenous as the word doesn't mean racial purity. In Slough, 2/3 of the population know that their family came from elsewhere. Only 1/3 of the population will have grandparents or great-grandparents who lived in the United Kingdom, and that connection would go back for thousands of years. I fully support the inclusion of the word indigenous, and I hope that by its inclusion, ignorance as to its meaning can be reduced.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.148.30.253 (talk) 09:19, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

text: I see we are now in the frustrating situation where this nonsense is repeatedly added to the article in spite of clear disagreement by  and myself, with zero talk page discussion by the editor adding it and no talk page discussion in favour _at all_ except the incoherent IP comment above. Pinkbeast (talk) 12:12, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

text: The logic that you have applied can also be used the other way, the English have had heavy intermingling with the Welsh/Romano-British and thus the majority can trace their ancestry back to the Welsh and perhaps (though I'm not certain to what extent Roman colonization influenced Welsh ancestry) to the pre-Roman Britons as-wellhttps://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10408. A large amount of Welsh ancestry could be traced back to the Romans too, which would make them not indigenous either even though Wales as a nation formed in Britain with heavy influence from the pre-Roman Britons. Of course the requisite ancestry is arbitrary, we could go even further back to the pre-Indo-Europeans and say that no Brit is indigenous, or even no European or Indian is indigenous because they're invaders from the North Caucasus, but then again, their nations formed in the lands they are in with undoubtedly much intermingling with the indigenous population. Of course to be indigenous means you are native to a land, Wales and England, formed solely in Britain and considering that the Welsh have large amounts of pre-Roman Briton ancestry and the English have large amounts of Welsh ancestry, I'd say they are justified in being considered indigenous by the standard of requiring pre-Roman Briton ancestry.Sudigoth (talk) 00:08, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Indigenous" 

message: I have suggested that Lynch Hill School Primary Academy should be merged here, as it is a non-notable primary svhool. Any comments and suggestions appreciated. Fob.schools (talk) 22:37, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems sensible. Pinkbeast (talk) 11:38, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually it is in the same trust as Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy so I have redirected there Fob.schools (talk) 11:50, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Lynch Hill School Primary Academy

message: Slough has a population of over 100,000, so that would make it a city. HardeeHar (talk) 18:48, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , Not necessarily; city status is not automatically granted in the UK. Adam9007 (talk) 18:50, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

text: , Where does the council website say Slough's a city? Adam9007 (talk) 14:59, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

text: , Where's your source? Adam9007 (talk) 00:48, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

text: , i couldn't find it. That's why I need you to give a link. Adam9007 (talk) 01:57, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Town? 

message: This article has recently been split with a new Borough of Slough being created. Does anyone have any opinions on whether this was wrong or right? Are Langley and Slough seperate towns or is Langley a Slough suburb? Eopsid (talk) 17:50, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent split to [[Borough of Slough]] 

message: The Census data on the Slough page for demographics (among other things) is horribly out of date.
We now have Census data from 2021 as featured here:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/censusareachanges/E06000039/
Examples:
Change White population of slough from 45.7% in 2011 to 36% in 2021
Muslim and Christian populations now 29.4% and 32% respectively
No religion now 13.1%
And so on Whisperingwind28 (talk) 07:42, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. I also took the opportunity to trim excess detail, which can be found at the main article. Barry Wom (talk) 11:33, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 11 March 2024