Gawcott
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So You Think You Know? High Wycombe
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Our home on the village green
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
A memory of Quainton contributed by Clare Masovic
The Great Linford
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.
A memory of Great Linford contributed by Paul Linford
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 ...read more here
A memory of Oakley contributed by Andrew Kinch
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
Extracts From Gawcott & Buckinghamshire books
Further east, the thatched shop
on the left is nowadays a private
house, The Old House. Beyond
is another thatched cottage, The
White House. Behind the wide
verge with its young trees is the
churchyard of Holy Trinity. The
dilapidated church was rebuilt
in 1827 to a Georgian design of
the then vicar, Thomas Scott. His
son, George Gilbert, was born in
the vicarage in 1811, and later
became one of England’s greatest
Victorian architects; his work
includes the Foreign Office, St
Pancras Station Hotel, and the
Albert Memorial, all in London.
An extract from from"North Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".
Moving further east along Main Street,
we reach the junction with New Inn
Lane on the right. Behind the telegraph
pole is the small mid 19th-century
Methodist chapel with its porch and
ornamental bargeboards to the gable.
Opposite is a row of cottages; the
left-hand one is called Lace Cottage,
a reminder of an important cottage
industry for women hereabouts, which
supplemented the men’s meagre
agricultural labourers’ wages.
An extract from from"North Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".
Gawcott, a mile and a half
south-west of Buckingham,
lies at the head of a stream
(flowing north into the River
Ouse) whose course runs
along the right-hand side of
this road. This view looks
east along Main Street from
beside Leyland Farm. This
is not the best end of the
village architecturally, but
we can see the tower of the
parish church of 1827 in
the distance.
An extract from from"North 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".