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When we had a shop
I was born in Little Marlow in 1947 and lived three doors away from the village shop, run by Miss Littlewood. I would go there and weigh the sultanas, currants etc., and put them into little blue bags.
My Mum (Phyllis Wright) waited at table when Queen Elizabeth 2nd came to visit Lord and Lady Ronaldshay at the manor house, and can also remember that when England won the World Cup in 1966 the coach with all the players parked outside our house, whilst the players went to the manor house. I would go to the Queens Head pub, with a jug for lemonade. Pub was run by Vic and Joan Woolmore, but before them it was run by Joan's ...read more here
A memory of Little Marlow contributed by Liz Hughes
RAF 90 Group Medmenham
After joining as aircrew in 1950 and being re-mustered as motor mechanic in 1951, I was posted to RAF Medmenham and attached to the motor pool. It was a wonderful posting with fond memories of walking along the river banks, drinks at the Dog and Badger as well as trying to visit every pub in Marlow and drinking half a pint. I failed!
I was demobilised in September 1952 and was on a boat heading for Australia before the month was out. I studied instead of drinking and became a psychologist now living in Queensland but even now at 77, still retaining my status as Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. Fond memories: eagerly going down the road from ...read more here
A memory of Medmenham contributed by Bob Neil
National Service RAF Medmenham 1956
RAF Medmenham, National Service 1956, arrived, spent the first night in the guardroom, nobody knew I was coming, thought I might be a member of the IRA. First week spent on the rubbish cart, Christmas Day armoury guard, good times though at the Red Lion in Marlow, and the Dog and Badger in Medmenham. Left in 1957 to join the RAF Physical Training Team based at RAF Halton, Happy Days. MERVYN JONES
A memory of Medmenham contributed by mervyn jones
Happy days
Medmenham was a beautiful posting and a happy place.
I attended the local dance hall.... where I was in great demand having danced to Silver medal class beore joining the RAF. Dream on you say !!!!!! Yes indeed.
I am still in touch with some old friends and attended a reunion about 10 years ago. Interesting to see how people change.!!!
Now I understand the camp is completely gone, except for ONE of the large gate posts which is in the centre of a roundabout where the entrance was.
I worked in the Orderly Room and played in the Station Band. I would like to hear from anyone who remembers me. I am now retired in Canada.
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A memory of Medmenham contributed by Paddy Pollock
Extracts From Marlow & Buckinghamshire books
This view, taken from Lock Island, looks towards the beautiful suspension bridge and the 1832 parish church which replaced the medieval one. This old church had been regularly flooded, particularly after the pound lock was built in 1773, and it partly collapsed in 1831. Here we see the old spire of 1832, a curiously knobbly affair with gigantic crockets.
An extract from from"Down the Thames Photographic Memories".
The popular Complete Angler
Hotel lies on the Berkshire bank
and looks out across the Thames
to Marlow. Originally, the road
crossed a bridge to its left, but
since 1832 the present superb
suspension bridge has taken the
road to the right, allowing the
hotel to steadily expand towards
the western route. Here we
look past the hotel and the weir
towards Lock Island from the
1832 bridge, before the hotel’s
20th-century expansion.
An extract from from"Maidenhead Photographic Memories".
This view looks west towards
the Parish church. The pound
lock replaced the hazardous
flash locks in the middle of
the weir in 1773. However
this exacerbated the flooding
of the churchyard and the
medieval parish church
partially collapsed. In 1832
it was replaced and here we
see the knobbly spire of that
date. It was later replaced by
the present elegant one by
John Oldrid Scott, who also
designed the spire of St Luke’s
in Maidenhead.
An extract from from"Maidenhead Photographic Memories".
We end this chapter in St Peter Street, which originally led to the old wooden bridge replaced by the present one further west. The tumbledown cottages, now long gone, were occupied by bargees, wharfingers, brewery labourers and others, while the Fisherman’s Retreat, the house with the blinds, was popular with anglers and pleasure boaters, including Jerome K Jerome, who often stayed here.
An extract from from"Down the Thames Photographic Memories".
St Peter Street had
several rows of
cottages, some in great
dilapidation, occupied
by river workers such
as ferrymen, bargees
and wharfingers. Those
on the left have been
replaced by the Neo-
Georgian complex of
Fisherman’s Retreat.
An extract from from"Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".