Contact
- mustpeter5@yahoo.co.uk
- 0118 9781671
Biography
Peter Must is Chairman of the Wokingham Society, a civic society that seeks to protect the town’s past, present and future. As well as taking a public stance on plans to develop or re-devolop housing in and around Wokingham we seek to inform those who live and work in the town about the town’s heritage and to encourage others to develop ther own interests in the history of the town.
The Society has also put up 16 blue plaques to highlight specific buildings and to celebrate notable people from the town’s past..
Peter has lived in Wokingham since 1986 and his involvement with the Wokingham Society has led to him developing a number of talks relating to local historical figures of the past and to ignificant period’s in the twon’s history. he also provides free guided welks around the town.
Talks
- A HIstory of Wokingham rom the Anglo-Saxon era to the present day
- Wokingham’s Markets and fairs from 800 years ago to the present day
- Wokingham in War And Peace: how the Town managed during and after the First World War
- Montague House and the Mountagues::Henry Mountague, father and son, Elizabethan schoolteachers and their schoolhouse
- Take him to the Tower:: Lt. Gen. Adam Williamson of Montague House and The Tower Of London
- The Heelas family of Wokingham and Reading: How they developed their stores over 200 years
- Henry Lucas Hospital, Wokingham’s only grade I listed building: How the Hospital was used and run for more than 300 years
- Louise Lucas’s 1886 :book about her Lucas ancestry: She married the Master of Henry Lucas Hospital, but was she related to Henry Lucas himself?
