Burnham, Buckinghamshire

Rhodes Green 1779c

My great-great-great-grandfather Rhodes Green was born in Burnham and lived and worked in Church Street. On the 1851 census he is listed as a shoemaker (master) and employing 2 men. His sons are shoemakers and his daughters are shoe binders. My friend Jean's ancester is John Tilbury and he is on the same census, he is also living in Church Street... [more]

My Grandfather had the foundry

I am taking a guess at the year, my paternal grandfather was one of the partners in a foundry called Wood and Stannard. The business was at the lower end of the High Street, and oposite the road to the church and the Five Bells pub. Not entirely sure what year he left Brittania House (as that was what it was... [more]

Summer in the country

In 1949 when I was six, my two cousins and I were sent to Burnham Beeches for a holiday. We lived in the East End of London.
We loved it there, it was summer and very hot, to play all day in the fields was such freedom. The family with whom we stayed were called Walters they lived in a... [more]

Growing up in Burnham

In this year I was 5 years old, and just starting school in the church hall in Gore Road, which is the road in which I also grew up.
I remember Burnham as a small, close-knit community, we went to church every Sunday, it was friendly and safe.
My Mother's family were one of the first to inhabit Burnham, and are... [more]

''''Burnham Beeches''''

.... as a little girl, I always remember going here with my Mum, my Aunt Edith and my cousin Dick.
Mum would say we are going to 'Burnham Beeches today'.  I could never quite understand when we got there, where the sand and sea was ... and I realise now that 'Beeches' meant 'trees' .. and not the 'seaside'!

Marriage

St. Peters church is where my ggg grandfather John Peck married my ggg grandmother Martha Robbins in 1813.

Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories

In 1955 the long winding High Street survived more or less intact. On the right all buildings up to and including the tree have gone: instead there is now a supermarket building.

Maidenhead Photographic Memories

Burnham desperately struggles to keep its identity separate from the sprawl of Slough, but the historic core is surrounded by suburban housing and its main street has seen injudicious change since 1955. Much survives, but in this view from the junction with Gore Road, the Slough and District Co-op on the left and the buildings beyond have all gone, although those on the right... [more]

High Wycombe - A History & Celebration

From the arches of the Georgian Guildhall the camera looks down White Hart Street. The buildings on the right replace medieval market place encroachment. On the left the open area was until 1947 occupied by fine 16th- and 17th-century timber-framed buildings, unforgivably demolished for an aborted road improvement scheme.