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Loosley Row maps
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When I Was A Boy
I was born in Princes Risborough and fondly remember as a young boy going into the shop with the bay window (shown on the right of your picture) to buy sweets and giggle at the young girls. The shop was known locally as 'Blue Kettle Jacks' although it was properly known, I think, as The Old Blue Kettle.
OLD AGE
With regards to this photo, I think if my memory serves me right it is Duke Street looking back from what was Benyons garage to the Market Square, I remember there used to be three butchers shops in this street alone!
St.George Playing Field
I do think this picture could be a lot earlier than 1955.
I think this Aylesbury road, heading down into Risborough. The St.George playing field, being on the right behind the hedge.
The houses in the distant right, are down Longwick road I believe.
Parish Church
On Sept 2 1877 William Frederick Beels married Emily Arkell in the Parish Church. William Frederick Beels' son was Frederick John Beels. His son was Frederick James Beels. Frederick James lived in Risboro with his grandparents and he remembers having to go to the next town by train to get groceries. He had to go by himself because his mother looked after his two younger sisters.
Shops And Shopping.
I remember spending my pocket money in Adcocks and Percivals, at the top of Duke Street. He had a terrific range of toys for a small town shop, from toy soldiers to model railways. He had a working model railway set up upstairs, which when connected I would play with for a while. The Copper Urn Cafe for a bottle of coke. The Green House for my sweets. Tiffanys opposite the primary school for tuck. Robin Bulls, for sweets as well. Can't remember the name of the record shop down Duke Street, but it became Spain In London menswear in the early 1970s. Gillingwaters veggie shop. Wainwrights shoe shop. Granny's Pantry on the Market Square, which then moved up the High Street in later years. Benyons Garage, Jacobs Garage, High Street... I got my bicycle tyres from them. Walters hairdressers, Barnards the builders, along Bell Street. And The Bell pub, with John Smith as landlord....ex navy man I think, and a good bloke. I could go on for ever, but I'd run out... Read more
William Russell Wilson Bligh
William Russell Wilson Bligh came to Australia and was living with his Uncle Sir Maurice O'Connell at Tarmons in Sydney in 1845. I have a copy of a letter written that expresses her concerns about her 18year old son and the way he is neglecting his family duty by not paying his uncle his due from his newly earned wages. He joined the Civil Service and was appointed the 1st Clerk of Petty Sessions in Armidale New South Wales in 1847. He was later dismissed by the Cowper Government in March 1859. He then went to live in Sydney and later retired to his cottage Whiteleaf Cross in the Blue Mountains, said to be named after the place where the children were born in Buckinghamshire. His Mother was one of 6 daughters and 3 sons born to Vice Admiral William Bligh. She married her 4th cousin Richard Bligh Barrister House of Lords. William's Mother gave William, the last remaining copy of his Grandfathers voyage which was later deposited in... Read more
Two Weddings
My parents were married at Great Hampden church in July 1929, they were Neater Ruth Groom of Prestwood, and Harold Aubrey Hall of Beenham in Berkshire. January 4th 1956 Barbara Hall, their only child, was married to Reginald Frank Ridgley, also of Prestwood. My mother died in April 1994, the wild cherry blossom and bluebells were adorning the Glade as we followed her coffin up to the church, we walked that way so often in the years gone by. Dad followed her in Feb 1995, it was cold and grey, but there were a lot of people, sharing the memories of lives spent in this lovely area, and Rev Phillip Hill who conducted our wedding, and the dear old Vicar who was there in my childhood, walking round his Parish, visiting, always happy to talk.
