Howard Palmer Gardens

Howard Palmer, born in 1865, was one of the three brothers who founded and were Directors of the Huntley & Palmer Biscuit Company. He served as a JP and High Sheriff for Berkshire and was a Governor of University College Reading.

In 1910 he was instrumental in saving the Wokingham Club, based in the Market Place and, after his death in 1923, his widow Ada and their son Reginald donated land behind the Club as a memorial bowling green.

The green became disused in the 1960s but was converted to become Howard Palmer Park in 1985, being renamed as Howard Palmer Gardens in 1998.

Picture: Out of the eight Huntley & Palmers directors in 1900, only one - William B. Williams, was not a Palmer. The other seven - Ernest, Walter, George William, Charles, Albert, Alfred and Howard (bottom right), were all sons of George or Samuel Palmer. 

The Wokingham Walk