Our goal is to impress our visitors

MAIDENHEAD’S new look Heritage Centre reopened its doors on Tuesday with an exhibition charting the history of the Magpies football team.
The Mayor of Windsor and Maidenhead, John Tryon was joined by several members of Maidenhead United and Heritage Trust Chairman Richard Poad for a champagne reception and tour of the renovated premises with it’s first display on a sporting theme.
Richard Poad said: “The Magpies Story is the first of several exhibitions which we hope will attract a wider audience to the Heritage Centre.
“The layout looks terrific, it is much more open and brighter and everyone who came was very impressed.“
The Magpies Story charts the history of Maidenhead United Football Club, which was founded in 1870, and features home and away strips, trophies, programmes and photographs which were put together by Club historian Mark Smith and Heritage Centre graphic designer Brian Sanderson.
While the Mayor challenge Maidenhead United captain Tim Cook to a game of table top football, the Mayoress found a reference to her uncle, Jack Palethorpe, among the memorabilia who scored a record 69 goals in 35 games during the 1929/30 season.
Richard Poad said: ”We’ve already received a lot of interest about the exhibition and a football table was kindly which makes it interactive.
“We hope that our bright new Heritage Centre will impress our visitors, our landlords and the Royal Borough, whose support is necessary if we are to provide the permanent Heritage Centre which Maidenhead deserves.”
The Magpies Story will run until Saturday October 28 at the Heritage Centre in the Broadway Mall of the Nicholsons Centre. It is open six days a week from 10am to 4pm and admission is free.