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Priory School (Slough)Priory School (Slough) was merged into this article. The discussion was closed on 10 July 2010 with a consensus to merge. The original page is now a redirect to this article. Its history now serves to provide attribution for the content in this article, and it must not be deleted as long as this article exists.

Text or other creative content from Slough was copied or moved into Berkshire with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Unpleasant

I find the article somewhat POV in presenting the town as unpleasant. It's really no worse that many other towns. -- Daran 13:50, 22 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I agree. It needs to be NPOVed. It's the best town in the world! anon (who'd want to admit to thinking that about Slough)

Mars factory

I reverted the claim that the Slough Mars factory was the original (opened by Forest Mars in the 1930s) - there was an earlier one opened by Frank Mars (Forest's father) in N. Oak Park Avenue, Chicago in 1929. Ian Cairns 13:46, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

ROBERT WATSON WATT

Robert_Watson-Watt lived in the town, as the inventor of Radar may deserver a mention here.

Citroën

The French car manufacturer Citroën had an important factory in Slough for many years, building Tractions Avant and the ID (DS) models. I don't have any more details, but Citroën lovers remember Slough for the UK spec cars that were produced there, so it would be worth a mention if anyone has more info.

Criticism of Slough

In a letter to The Times published on Aug 31, 2006, a Matthew Dick writes 'Lest we forget, Betjeman retracted his less than favourable critique of [Slough] fairly shortly after making it.'

Can anyone properly source this and work it into the article?

Origin of the name "Slough"?

Latest comment: 6 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The text at the beginning of the "History" section does not directly address an obvious question: Was the locale name "Slough" derived from the body-of-water type referred to as a "slough"? (I personally doubt this, but I do not know and do not know how to research this.) Acwilson9 (talk) 02:21, 22 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

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