Farnham Common
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Map of Berkshire
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Farnham Common books (7 available)
So You Think You Know? High Wycombe
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Farnham Common memories
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My Home
My Family moved to the house to the left of the school gates in 1957, before the school was built. I lived there until 1965 when I married and moved to the USA.
My brother went to this school, and I used to cut across the field to catch the bus to my school in Slough. I have many fond memories of growing up in Farnham Common, taking the dog for walks in Burnham Beeches, stopping at the bakery on the corner of Beeches road, and the old pet store which is now the parking lot next to the chemist. I worked at Farnham Common telephone exchange for a couple of years, 1960-1962, it was quite cramped but fun. I ...read more here
Contributed by Jill Trimble
School
I remember walking to school in the winter from Hedgerley, only to arrive at the gates and seeing this view but the whole car park and playground being flooded. No school today!!! Sometimes it was a couple of days before the water had drained away. Also on the left of the picture is where we used to stand waiting for the door to open for our school disco etc. Great school, loved Miss Painter, can't say the same for Mrs Benjamin, she was a great teacher but scared the life out of some of us, never did get the hang of needlework !!!,,,,,,,,Pete Cronin
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Berkshire memories
My Home
My Family moved to the house to the left of the school gates in 1957, before the school was built. I lived there until 1965 when I married and moved to the USA.
My brother went to this school, and I used to cut across the field to catch the bus to my school in Slough. I have many fond memories of growing up in Farnham Common, taking the dog for walks in Burnham Beeches, stopping at the bakery on the corner of Beeches road, and the old pet store which is now the parking lot next to the chemist. I worked at Farnham Common telephone exchange for a couple of years, 1960-1962, it was quite cramped but fun. I ...read more here
A memory of Farnham Common contributed by Jill Trimble
School
I remember walking to school in the winter from Hedgerley, only to arrive at the gates and seeing this view but the whole car park and playground being flooded. No school today!!! Sometimes it was a couple of days before the water had drained away. Also on the left of the picture is where we used to stand waiting for the door to open for our school disco etc. Great school, loved Miss Painter, can't say the same for Mrs Benjamin, she was a great teacher but scared the life out of some of us, never did get the hang of needlework !!!,,,,,,,,Pete Cronin
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Extracts From Farnham Common & Berkshire books
In Victoria Road, just east of the A355 as it passes through Farnham Common, the late 19th-century Victoria Hotel
is now The Victoria, with its brickwork painted cream and the window jambs and quoins dark blue.
An extract from from"Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".
From the arches of the Georgian Guildhall the
camera looks down White Hart Street. The
buildings on the right replace medieval market
place encroachment. On the left the open area was
until 1947 occupied by fine 16th- and 17th-century
timber-framed buildings, unforgivably demolished
for an aborted road improvement scheme.
An extract from from"High Wycombe - A History & Celebration".
The ancient open space of Frogmoor had from 1877 until the Second World War a fine cast-iron fountain and
well trimmed trees. Note the four gables of the old Hen and Chickens on the left (rebuilt in 1888).
An extract from from"High Wycombe - A History & Celebration".
IN 1801, according to the first national
census, the borough had a population of
2,349 consisting of 565 families living in
448 houses, while the rest of the town, the
ancient ‘foreigns’, had a further 1,899 people,
397 families living in 370 houses.
An extract from from"High Wycombe - A History & Celebration".
Arthur Vernon,
Architect and Mayor
The career of Arthur Vernon, architect and JP, born in 1846, is a good example of Wycombe’s
new class of industrialists and professionals. In 1870, having finished his training with the architect
E B Lamb, he succeeded his father as land agent to the Earl of Beaconsfield (the ennobled Benjamin
Disraeli) at Hughenden, and was appointed JP in 1875. Elected a town councillor and alderman in 1870,
he was elected to Buckinghamshire County Council at its inception in 1889 and appointed a magistrate
for the county in 1895. Elected mayor for the first time in 1882, he was mayor again in 1883, 1891,
1905 and 1906. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce from 1899 to 1906, a captain of
Wycombe Fire Brigade from its founding in 1868 until 1881, and President of the Surveyors Institution
in 1902–03. In between all this he found time to design very many buildings in the town besides the
Grammar School and Priory Road School. These included a temperance hall in Flackwell Heath, a lodge
for Hughenden, schools, buildings in the town centre, churches, the former Conservative Club at No
28 High Street of 1897, and many houses.
An extract from from"High Wycombe - A History & Celebration".