Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire
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Grendon Underwood books
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Early Childhood in Grendon Underwood
I have vivid memories & photos of my time in Grendon 1931-1934. I went to the local school .... I can remember much about those times if anyone is interested .... just contact me if this is of interest and I will submit as much as you can cope with!!!
The Photo of the Thatched Cottage 'Crucks c1960' was my home!!!
Mr. Roy Windley
41, Westcliffe Avenue,
Westbury Park
NEWCASTLE (STAFFS.)
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E-Mail: windleyr@tiscali.co.uk
Shared on 13 January 2009
Buckinghamshire memories
I lived in Quainton in the 1950s, on the corner of The Green and Lower St. My family had the drapers shop. I remember bonfire night on the green, rolling down Mill Hill, Christmas carols, ballet lessons in the church hall and sitting the 11+ exams at school and of being sent to the Sportsmans Inn for a packet of Woods or Weights cigarettes for my father.
With my parents Ray and Sylvia Wheatley, my sister Barbara and brother Ian we emigrated to Australia but I will not forget the fun we had in Quainton
Clare Masovic nee Wheatley
Shared on 04 May 2007
I lived in North Marston in the 1950s, at 25 Quainton Road My Grandfather Ezra Rawlings was a tailor. I remember bonfire night on the sports field, cycling down Church Hill, Christmas carols, Friday night youth club in the school hall and being sent to the Cox's shop for a packet of Woods or Weights cigarettes for my grandfather.
I emigrated to Australia in 1961, but I will never forget the fun I had in North Marston, with Jim Tattam, Simon Carter, and Janet Gowin, also David Holden, and the rest of our gang, I also remember Lawrence Young standing as umpire in his white dust coat, and I was the scorer for the village cricket team. In those days we made our own fun, and was never bored, I feel sorry for the youth of today, they say they have nothing to do.
If any body reading this, knows the where abouts of Sandra Tickner, who was a Whitchurch lass, I would very much like to get in touch with her.
Shared on 23 May 2009
I lived here! Ref. Photo O65003
These were Elmwood Cottages in the Worminghall Road. I was born in the far end house, and lived my first 25 years in the 8th semi along. My Mum and Dad would have had our house since new. It seems odd to think that we were probably at home when this was taken. They were demolished in 1984 to make way for brand new houses. The lovely Elm trees that used to stand in front of the houses sadly got Dutch Elm disease in the 1970s and had to be felled. Just in the foreground on the left is the village garage that was owned and run by Aubrey Bristow, and to the right, just out of picture is the Royal Oak pub, I remember the landlord as being Fred Welford for many years whilst I was growing up. The memories come flooding back.
Shared on 18 February 2008
Extracts From Grendon Underwood & Buckinghamshire books
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North Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories
The name of this cottage is a reminder of a very important medieval and late medieval building tradition in this area, possibly associated with the abundance of oak trees in the Bernwood Forest and its surroundings. A cruck is best described as an A-frame, a pair of massive timbers that run from the ground to the apex of the roof, usually cut from the same tree. Long Crendon has over 20 cruck houses, an unusual concentration, but many of the villages round about have a few - Haddenham has four and Grendon Underwood two, for example. Often hidden behind render, as here, they are still being discovered.
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North Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories
Grendon Underwood is a long, straggling village, with the gaps filled steadily from the 1950s onwards. This view is at the less interesting east end of Main Road, away from the parish church, the moat, the Georgian rectory and Shakespeare Farmhouse, where the bard is reputed to have stayed. Attridge’s (right) is now Grendon Stores, and the plot in the foreground now has a 1980s house, a better design than the dull bungalows on the left of about 1960.
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Milton Keynes - A History & Celebration
Jean Raiders recalled the impact the brick industry made on her relatives in the early 20th century: ‘Employed as a bricklayer by several local builders, my grandfather, Frank Howard, worked on the re-building of the Swan, and the building of the Town Hall and Rhondda and Ropley Houses.
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