
Datchet
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Sep 13, 2026
Biographies of Working Men-Grant Allen
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210:12PJ LandauNARRATOR
The king happily relieved him from this intolerable waste.
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210:17PJ LandauNARRATOR
He offered Herschel a salary of two hundred pounds a year if he would come and live at Datchet and devote himself entirely to astronomical observations.
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210:29PJ LandauNARRATOR
It was by no means a munificent sum for a king to offer for such labor, but Herschel gladly accepted it, as it would enable him to give up the interruption of teaching and spend all his time on his beloved astronomy.
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210:45PJ LandauNARRATOR
His Bath friend, Sir William Watson, exclaimed when he heard of it, "Never bought monarch honor so cheap." Herschel was forty-three when he removed to Datchet, and from that day forth, he lived almost entirely in his observatory, wholly given up to his astronomical pursuits.
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211:07PJ LandauNARRATOR
Even when he had to go to London to read his papers before the Royal Society, he chose a moonlit night when the stars would be mostly invisible, so that it might not interfere with his regular labors.
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211:23PJ LandauNARRATOR
Poor Carolina was horrified at the house at Datchet, which seemed terribly desolate and poor, even to her modest German ideas.
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211:33PJ LandauNARRATOR
But William declared his willingness to live permanently and cheerfully upon eggs and bacon, now that he was at last free to do nothing on earth but observe the heavens.
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211:45PJ LandauNARRATOR
Night after night, he and Carolina worked together at their silent task, he noting the small features with his big telescope, she sweeping for comets with a smaller glass or finder.
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)-Jerome K. Jerome
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259:15speaker_19NARRATOR
After you pass Old Windsor, the river is somewhat uninteresting, and does not become itself again until you are nearing Boveney.
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259:24speaker_19NARRATOR
George and I towed up past the home park which stretches along the right bank from Albert to Victoria Bridge, and as we were passing Datchet, George asked me if I remembered our first trip up the river, and when we landed at Datchet at ten o'clock at night and wanted to go to bed.
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259:42speaker_19NARRATOR
I answered that I did remember it.
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It will be some time before I forget it.
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259:46speaker_19NARRATOR
It was the Saturday night before the August bank holiday.
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259:49speaker_19NARRATOR
We were tired and hungry, we same three.
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259:52speaker_19NARRATOR
Then we got to Datchet.
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We took out the hamper, the two bags, the rugs and coats, and such like things, and started off to look for diggings.
Seen and the Unseen-Richard Marsh
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361:35SoniaNARRATOR
He repeated his inquiry.
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361:37SoniaNARRATOR
"My friend, could you tell me just one thing?" "If it is in my power?" "Could you tell me which is the Duchess of Datchet?" "The Duchess of Datchet." Ivor Dekker smiled outright.
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361:52SoniaNARRATOR
The idea of there being any possible association between that oily Houndsditch Hebrew and the latest and brightest queen of the London season, the bride of but a month or two, struck him as too ludicrous.
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362:06SoniaNARRATOR
Mr. Dekker was possessed of that rare attribute, a sense of humor.
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363:03SoniaNARRATOR
The old girl with the moustache." Mr.
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363:06SoniaNARRATOR
Dekker's smile almost expanded into a grin.
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363:10SoniaNARRATOR
"That is the Duchess of Datchet." Without a word of thanks, Mr.
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363:15SoniaNARRATOR
Pfungst strode off.
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
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224:38speaker_10NARRATOR
After you pass Old Windsor, the river is somewhat uninteresting, and does not become itself again until you are nearing Boveney.
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224:47speaker_10NARRATOR
George and I towed up past the home park which stretches along the right bank from Albert to Victoria Bridge, and as we were passing Datchet, George asked me if I remembered our first trip up the river, and when we landed at Datchet at ten o'clock at night and wanted to go to bed.
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225:04speaker_10NARRATOR
I answered that I did remember it.
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It will be some time before I forget it.
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225:08speaker_10NARRATOR
It was the Saturday night before the August bank holiday.
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225:11speaker_10NARRATOR
We were tired and hungry, we same three.
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225:14speaker_10NARRATOR
Then we got to Datchet.
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We took out the hamper, the two bags, the rugs and coats, and such like things, and started off to look for diggings.
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)-Jerome K. Jerome
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264:25speaker_17NARRATOR
After you pass Old Windsor, the river is somewhat uninteresting, and does not become itself again until you are nearing Boveney.
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264:34speaker_17NARRATOR
George and I towed up past the home park which stretches along the right bank from Albert to Victoria Bridge, and as we were passing Datchet, George asked me if I remembered our first trip up the river, when we landed at Datchet at ten o'clock at night and wanted to go to bed.
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264:51speaker_17NARRATOR
I answered that I did remember it.
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264:53speaker_17NARRATOR
It will be some time before I forget it.
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264:58speaker_17NARRATOR
We were tired and hungry.
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We same three.
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Then we got to Datchet.
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We took out the hamper, the two bags, the rugs and coats, and such like things, and started off to look for diggings.
The Chilling Truth About Leah Croucher’s Killer
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33:02Josh AvesteHOST
Then in 2002, he was sentenced to four years in prison for three separate sexual assault offenses against a young girl.
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33:11Josh AvesteHOST
In 2009, he plead guilty again to assaulting a woman, this time in Datchet, Berkshire, resulting in a prison sentence of four more years and 10 months.
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33:23Josh AvesteHOST
And then in 2018, he assaulted another woman, this time in Milton Keynes.
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33:30Josh AvesteHOST
For this crime, he was only given 200 hours of community service and received no custodial sentence.
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)-Jerome K. Jerome
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252:36speaker_21NARRATOR
George and I towed up past the home park, which stretches along the right bank from Albert to Victoria Bridge.
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252:43speaker_21NARRATOR
And as we were passing Datchet, George asked me if I remembered our first trip up the river, when we landed at Datchet at 10 o'clock at night and wanted to go to bed.
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252:53speaker_21NARRATOR
I answered that I did remember it.
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It will be some time before I forget it.
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252:58speaker_21NARRATOR
It was the Saturday night before the August bank holiday.
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We were tired and hungry, we same three.
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Then we got to Datchet.
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We took out the hamper, the two bags, the rugs and coats and such like things, and started off to look for diggings.
Tales of the Uneasy-Violet Hunt
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15:00Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
Poor Alice forgot all propriety when once she was towed well out into the midstream.
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15:07Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
There she gave way and allowed the echoes of Datchet and Lallam to echo with her sobs, for she had been awfully hard hit.
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15:16Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
Once indeed, Everett remembered, but with no pleasure sense of a lover's guerdon gained, she had leaned forward in the boat with the abandon of despair and kissed her patient confidant.
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15:29Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
It was the only woman's kiss Everard had ever received in his life, and it had tasted of salt tears.
Tales of the Uneasy-Violet Hunt
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14:28Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
Poor Alice forgot all propriety when once she was towed well out into the midstream.
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14:35Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
There she gave way and allowed the echoes of Datchet and Lallham to echo with her sobs, for she had been awfully hard hit.
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14:44Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
Once indeed, Everett remembered, but with no pleasure sense of a lover's guerdon gained, she had leaned forward in the boat with the abandon of despair and kissed her patient confidant.
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14:57Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
It was the only woman's kiss Everard had ever received in his life, and it had tasted of salt tears.