Stories from Slough · United Kingdom

John's sons became sick and died within a few years. He then met another woman, a Quaker widow. To facilitate this new relationship, he set up his lover Sarah in a house in Slough and paid her child maintenance of approximately one pound per week.

A train station master in Slough sent a telegram reporting a man on a train to Paddington who may have murdered a woman. The railway system used the telegraph to set clocks, establishing British railway time.

An Orthodox Jewish man, a father of two, was reportedly attacked and verbally abused with anti-Semitic slurs while working on a house in Slough. The incident occurred when a stranger approached him and began making threats and using offensive language. The victim had been using his phone as part of his job at the time of the assault. A man on a bicycle shouted anti-Semitic remarks at a reporter in Slough. The reporter was taking pictures of property when the man rode past, shouted, and then turned back towards the reporter.