HAVING left for Australia at the age of sixteen, Mrs. Chris McGovern returned in 1977, and could not believe how much her town had changed, luckily, the Bracknell News had a rare chance to view her album of photos from the late 1950’s. During a whistle stop tour of Bracknell, using her scrapbook “The history of The Destruction of Bracknell”, she revisited the site of her family home in Ralph’s Ride, where her father had a small-holding with pigs and chickens. All three of the family homes were now demolished and whilst touring the area Mrs. McGovern was tight-lipped about her feelings, only commenting that the shops ‘are very good now’.