• The County Secondary School in the former William Street in Slough (also disappeared following modern road changes in Slough - roughly where Slough College now stands).
• St Bernard's Convent in Langley at that time for girls only.
• Tower House in Slough
• Windsor House in Slough? Windsor?

From 1937 and 1938, the Boys Grammar School and the Girls High School in Slough respectively, took pupils from Richings Park schools.

Fine Dining

The preparatory (13+) function for boys continued for a time for senior

schools such as Abingdon, Haileybury and Aldenham.

The Shops

Those in Thorney Lane, on the east side of the road, were built in 1926 by Lowdells Ltd on Tower land (Huntsmoor Estate) and were a private speculation. The architect was a Mr Robins and they bore no relationship at all to the Richings Park Company.

To begin with, mobile shops came in from Iver Village and West Drayton to supply the first residents of Richings Park, but the provision of shops was an integral part of the Sykes' perception of what they were creating. George Clare shared this vision and took very considerable care to create several parades of distinction. The design deliberately set out to create an approach of great style from the railway station to this unique garden development with the eye being drawn past the imposing gables of the shops to the dignity of the tree lined Wellesley

Avenue and the spacious circular junction with Somerset Way. The parade of shops on Bathurst Walk (Wellesley Avenue to Bathurst Close) was never completed nor was the southward extension, on a narrower profile, of the parade on Upper Wellesley Avenue.

Early among the shops was The Dairy at No. 9, Wellesley Avenue (now the Post Office) and the bottling plant next door in a purpose-designed building by Clare with a louvre-ventilated roof-ridge. The Sykes had retained and operated Home Farm on the Estate which continued primarily as a dairy farm. Eric Sykes, the youngest brother, was the manager. There was a dairyman and staff and the original promotional materials for the Company made play of deliveries of fresh milk twice daily from the pedigree Friesian herd and model dairy under 'superlative conditions'. Initially Mr Reeves, the farm manager, undertook the milk round. On 25th March 1929 the commercial site of the