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Bletchley books (7 available)
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My roots
I lived at the family home at the Three Locks, which was about one mile out of Stoke Hammond. Every Sunday from around five years of age, I walked to St Luke's Parish Church, Stoke Hammond to attend Sunday School. In later years I was the Sunday School teacher for a time. I was also confirmed here.
Along with my brother, I joined the church choir which we were members for many years. I remember we walked to the church services very often three times every Sunday. My brother also played the organ during his late teens, and he was a member of the bell ringing team. I also learnt to ring the bells about eight years ago at this ...read more here
A memory of Stoke Hammond contributed by stephanie mcpherson
From birth to 25yrs
I lived at the house just at the top of photo. The outbuildings can clearly be seen in the adjoining field to the family home. I spent all my childhood years playing with my brother and friends here. I used to love watching the working barges going through the locks. My grandfather kept the Three Locks (known then as The New Inn) as publican for 16yrs. (That was when the barges were horse drawn.)
A memory of Stoke Hammond contributed by stephanie mcpherson
my roots from birth to 50years
2008 and this shop is still here. It has changed very little in looks. It was owned by the same family Bonner from my early memory of about 1950 for many years. Today it remains a post office/shop
A memory of Stoke Hammond contributed by stephanie mcpherson
Reminiscing
I was born in NW London. My first visit to Woburn Sands was about 1950 when my Uncle Ted and Aunt Ada moved here. They lived at the 'Dene' Aspley Hill. Aunt Ada did the housework for Mrs Russell the owner of the 'Dene' and my uncle drove a lorry for Marston Bricks. My school holidays were spent here cycling around the district. Then in 1955 my father Charles Batham bought 'Quarry Cottage' in Sandy Lane, Aspley Heath. At that time there was no electricity or sewer. Mum cooked on a wood stove and we read by oil lamps. No TV or radio. The toilet was the outhouse. I met my wife Barbara while travelling to work at Bletchley. We married ...read more here
A memory of Woburn Sands contributed by Roy Batham
Extracts From Bletchley & Buckinghamshire books
Just as in B439018, much has changed in this view. Central Park ran from Queensway to the back of Western
Road, whose c1900 houses can be seen in the distance. In the 1950s it was a typical town centre park with seats,
walks and flower beds, but all this changed when the Leisure Centre arrived in 1971-76, with its pyramidal pool
building and large sports hall. This area is now the car park and grass margin to the rear service access road.
An extract from from"North Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".
Architecturally something of a dog’s dinner with bits added to the 1860 house piecemeal, Bletchley Park is famous
for the cracking of the Nazi ‘Enigma’ code during the last war, admittedly in huts around the site.
An extract from from"Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".
Moving east, the route passes through Whitchurch on its way back to Aylesbury. Whitchurch is a long village with many
fine houses and cottages, and also the remains of Hugh of Bolbec’s early 12th-century earthwork castle. Oving Road runs
east from the High Street; this view is taken beyond its junction with Market Hill looking west, showing the mix of building
materials found in the village: timber-framing, brick, local crumbly limestone, thatch, tiles and slate.
An extract from from"Aylesbury Photographic Memories".
The Black Boy is on the left, with the Victorian school, now a house, beyond the car. The ugly lean-to on the cottage has
been replaced by a conservatory, and the railings by a rubble stone wall. The church, like Quainton’s, was substantially
rebuilt, this time in the 1860s, a not uncommon result of medieval use of the local highly friable limestone.
An extract from from"Aylesbury Photographic Memories".
Moving north-east of Waddesdon, the last two villages on this tour, Oving and Whitchurch, are on the Quainton-
Whitchurch Hills, a ridge of Portland limestone that gives fine views over the Vale of Aylesbury to the south and towards
Buckingham to the north. Oving is a most attractive village. Here we see Magpie Cottage, a fine 17th-century timber-
framed thatched cottage with whitewashed infill panels, hence the name, presumably.
An extract from from"Aylesbury Photographic Memories".