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Lavendon, the Post Office c1965
Lavendon, the Parish Church c1965
Lavendon, Post Office and Square 1967
Historic maps of Lavendon and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Lavendon maps
Historic map of Lavendon
Illustrated Victorian map of Buckinghamshire
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So You Think You Know? High Wycombe
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Did You Know? Aylesbury - A Miscellany
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North Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories
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4 Lavendon photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
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The lad leaning on the wall was John Cook, whose father was a policeman in NP, the guy to the left in the dark suite is me and the lad sitting on the pillar (to the right) was David Ashworth son of Major Ashworth who lived in Silver Street.
Shared on 07 August 2008
I had heard of The Great Linford and can trace genealogy back to the one subjects that lived on the Great Linford although it is not named after any of my ancestors.
In 2000, I had the opportunity to vist London and rented a car and drove out to Milton Keynes and the Great Linford just to see what it was all about. It is amazing that the buildings have endured as long as they have. I found it peacful and serene even though the Great Linford Manor is now a recording studio. I hope to return one day and spend more than a couple of hours and see more of the area.
Shared on 15 June 2006
My dad used to have a stall in the Market Hall in Wolverton selling groceries. I remember going with him in the van on Fridays and on the way back we would call into to visit old family friends who lived in Cosgrove ' the slaymakers'. Not sure exactly where they lived but seem to think it was on a corner in the village and remember a yellow stone wall and a lovely garden. I was fascinated to learn that he grew something called logan berries, which looked like big raspberries and tasted good anyway! Don't think that they had any family, I never met any children at their home. Cosgrove was a quiet pretty little village and as I have never visited in over 40 years it will stay that way in my memory!
Shared on 28 May 2009
Daneswood Convalescent Home 1958/9
I was a pre - Nursing student at Daneswood for two years. I hailed from Bolton, Lancashire and it was my first time away from home and town. I fell in love with Woburn Sands and enjoyed my time at Daneswood, to this day I have lovely memories of the place and friends made there.
I have lived in Canada now for the past 45 years having retired from teaching, nursing, and travel extensively. However, we have not managed a return trip to Woburn sands but will do so next year. I imagine the place will have changed from the sleepy village I remember and I believe Daneswood is no longer there.
I fondly remember some of the sisters there, Sister Robinson who hailed from Scotland and Sister Munn whose husband was the gardener {what a garden} and Mary the wonderful cook.
I used to love taking long hikes through the woods and the summers seem to me now idyllic. Woburn Sands definately has a large place in my life's book.
Kathleen Hagan {Kathy Orrell}.
Shared on 24 October 2008
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Lavendon, inspired by Frith photos.
North Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories
The busy A428 Northampton to Bedford Road winds through the village from west to east, curving round the parish churchyard’s rubblestone retaining walls. This is the furthest north part of Buckinghamshire, beyond the stone-built market town of Olney, and not far from the Northamptonshire border. West of the village, in the quiet valley of a stream, was a small abbey founded in 1154, and long-vanished. Lavendon’s parish church was old even then, for its nave, part of the chancel and the west tower below the belfry are all late Anglo-Saxon, probably early 11th century.
North Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories
Looking across from within the churchyard is the post office, which occupies an 18th-century stone house. The steel windows replaced the original leaded casements in about 1960, and have themselves been replaced by timber windows ten years ago. That was when the building ceased to be a post office and became a private house.
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.
