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Topic: Postcards of Bucks (Read 2065 times)
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Firstome
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Posts: 53
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Thank you so much for the memories. Beaconsfield Aylesbury End. The shop on the right was Warrens and as a child I would stand outside in the morning whilst they were grinding the coffee and the aroma would come out of the vents beneath the window! Later in my life, they delivered groceries to me weekly.
On the left, I remember seeing the buildings gutted by fire. One was a barber's shop I remember. Another building closer to the roundabout where the picture was taken from, was Dean's the greengrocery shop.
Further down on the right was the Congregational Church which I attended and beyond my aunt and uncle's shop which sold gramaphones and requisites and uncle also repaired bicycles out the back.
Thanks for the memories. Ann
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Firstome
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Again you are very Welcome! I'm glad I can share them with people who actually appreciate them! My friends and family are not bothered by them!
It's so nice to hear about the shops etc too. I've never been personally (although planning a visit to Bucks soon) so it's nice to be able to picture it a bit better!!
Thank you for responding to my post. In fact, the postcard of High Wycombe High Street also is very memorable to me and I wish my father was still alive to see it.
You can just see the Red Lion which stands over the portico of The Red Lion Hotel down the street on the RHS. I have attended dinner dances there in my youth. I worked on the left hand side of the Street in the car sales showroom. Well, my office was at the rear of the showroom and I was secretary to the Sales Director. Well, I worked in Wycombe from about 1952 to 1956. We sold Roots Group cars, Hillman, Humber and Sunbeam Talbot and the commercial vehicles of that time, Commer.
I would be called a personal assistant in these modern times as I taxed and insured vehicles, invoiced customers and helped them with the hire purchase documentation and kept records of the engine, chassis and registration together with relevant new owner.
Everyone had to clock on with a time clock at the garage, but I flatly refused as I said often I worked later if we had a customer needing my services and I would then come in a bit later etc. This worked! We had to work 5.5 days per week and it was getting increasingly hard to get home on the bus early afternoon on the Saturdays. I was given a 5 day week but then they said they were going to reverse this, so I found another job. By then, I was married and after the 20 mins bus ride, I had 2 miles to cycle down narrow country lanes to Wooburn Common.
Well, I got to know the proprietors of all the Dealer Garages in Bucks and they made a real fuss of me when I married. Even one customer gave me Irish Linen Bedding for my wedding as I always did his road fund licences on his lorries in my lunch hour as a favour.
In fact, my granny was born in a little cottage in High Wycombe. Her family had lived in West Wycombe and the surrounding area for centuries. Well, they had been Romanies and of a pedigree status too, being Bucklands.
Lovely to chat and I hope you do not object to the ramblings of an elderly lady! Ann
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Firstome
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Once I get started, I get off the point. I am so glad you shared those postcards. Buckinghamshire is not the lovely quiet place it was in my youth. In the Beaconsfield post card right down on right beyond the chapel and my uncle's shop, there was, at one time, an estate agents callled Cory and Cory. I was the manager's secretary in that shop front. That is where my husband espied me as he walked past. In fact he worked next door! This postcard is of the Old Town and there is a New Town a mile further down that road you see.
Can you see the White Hart Hotel behind us in this snap? Ann
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Firstome
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Penn Church I know very well as my father's parents lived in Penn. I have been bridesmaid more than once at the church and even God Mother to my dear cousin. There is a lovely, or was, Pub opposite the church.
I remember and my cousin does too, dragging my cousin June all the way from Beaconsfield to Penn and almost to the next village to visit my grandparents. Then we had to walk home again, but it was 4 miles down hill going home! LOL Ann
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Firstome
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Hi Daniel, Do you have any addresses in Penn from looking at the census forms? Oh sorry, assuming you are with ancestry.com. If you wish to pass any approx dates I would be happy to help within my capabilities.
Penn and Tylers Green appear to be entwined, sort of two villages rolled into one. With my grandparents having a farm there I spent many happy school holidays with them.
It was a smalll place then, but my grandad applied for planning permission to sell one of his fields to my Dad, a builder. The council refused but immediately compulsory purchased the farm and demolished the farmhouse etc and sold the whole farm off to large developers. Hence a large private housing estate in that small village now! My grandad did fight through a solicitor at the time, but got no where. Ann
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Daisy Loo
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Lovely reading through your memories Ann! And you wedding photo is BEAUTIFUL!
My family are originally from Bucks too...my main line from there, is HILLSDON/HILSDEN, and originally they seemed to be all from Waddesdon (300 years and counting), but also in West Wycombe, High Wycombe, Princes Risborough etc... some of the men were wheelwrights/millwrights
Daisy Loo
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BARNETT- Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Dorset HILSDEN/HILLSDEN/HILLSDON- Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Canada PRESTIDGE/PRESTAGE- Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Islington PINNIGER/PINEGAR/PINNEGAR - Wiltshire Branmbleby - Kent, Middlesex
LEACH- Norfolk BUTTERWORTH - Lancashire OTTON - Somerset LAWRENCE - Berkshire
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Firstome
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Posts: 53
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Hi Daisy Loo,
How interesting! There is a manor at Waddesden, but you probably know that.
My family are mainly from Radnage, near High Wycombe.
One branch I have been able to trace to my 9th great grandad Ralph Stone, born 1555 Princes Risborough. Thanks to a diligent vicar who kept records and a dear distant relative I met via GenesReunited. My 7th great grandad moved to Radnage.
My 3rd gt granny Stone married into the Ing family and my granny was an Ing before marrying my grandad. The Ings I have traced back to Elisha born 1659 in Haddenham, Bucks. He married in Hedgerley Bucks but they lived in West Wycombe of which there is a postcard kindly donated by Daniel above.
Well my 2nd grt grandad born Radnage. married Stokenchurch and died in Oxfordshire.
This sounds like a very "Bucks" family but it is not actually. My 3rd gt granny, born in Radnage, had a sister who married a young man who grew up in Radnage and he was originlly a negro slave boy. He and my 3rd gt aunt remained in Radnage
but then the family moved right across England and finally into Wales and then right across Wales to the furthest corner within a few miles of my home now. Small world. The descendents are very fair skinned now too!
Daisy Loo, my ancestors were in the wood business but less skilled than yours. Anther branch who married into the Ing family were originally Romanies. They lived and worked fashioning the timber in the woods around High Wycombe. They worked themselves up from common woodmen to furniture manufacturers. Funny enough, I have worked for a High Wycombe furniture factory and my husband worked for the same company, G Plan, and hubby also worked for Ercol.
Small world. Would love to hear about your ancestors when you can spare the time. Ann
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