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High Wycombe, The Abbey 1906
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Wycombe Cricket Club ground, it can now be seen re-erected at Chiltern Open Air Museum, complete with a toll-gate. This road was a great success, but the old Grammar School (a conversion of the medieval Hospital of St John) formed a serious bottleneck. The trustees of the turnpike pressured the Common Council into allowing them to widen the road here in 1767 by demolishing the southern part of the old hospital, truncating it to the present three bays. To the north of the town, Crendon Lane was gated near where the station now is, and a track wended its way towards Amersham over Wycombe Heath, an area infested by highwaymen. This was changed dramatically by the 1768 Turnpike Trust Act; it established a fine toll road from Hatfield to Reading via Amersham, High Wycombe and Marlow. Certainly the aldermen of Wycombe played a big role in securing and building the road; the trustees held their first meeting at the Red Lion in the High Street.

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A Selection of Memories from High Wycombe

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from High Wycombe

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St Davids College
My sister Carolyn Trew attended St Davids and I joined her age 4, but I was only there a year before it closed. I can’t remember all the teachers names, but remember one teacher letting us out and he knew all the pupils names I remember the rumble of the trains when we were down in the “ indoor playground” and the walks down to The Rye where we did our sports jumping on the wall of the bandstand. I used to ...see more
High Wycombe, the Rye c1960
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High Wycombe In War Time
I was born in High Wycombe in 1938 and lived there till 1945. My school-time memories were of going to Godstowe with my sister, and winning the top spelling prize in the school - an achievement never since emulated! I remember my father taking me to the hilltop and pointing to a red glow in the distance, saying “That’s London burning”. We had a couple of doodlebugs which landed in nearby fields, and we ...see more
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Learning To Swim On The Rye
I was born in Amersham Hospital in 1956. It should have been the Shrubbery, but it was full on the day I decided I had had enough of the womb. Cut to the mid 60's and I'm a student at Crown House Primary in London Road opposite the Rye, a tiny private 6 class room, 11+cram school in an attractive Georgian residence. Happy memories there and yes, I passed what was really a glorified IQ test in 1967, ...see more
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Rye Mill Cottages
My maternal great grandmother (or possibly Great Aunt), Mrs Curtis, was of Romani (Gypsy) descent and lived in one of the row of cottages that fronted the Rye (Pann) Mill on London Road, High Wycombe, opposite the Trinity Church. The cottages have been demolished and the mill refurbished. According to family hearsay, Mrs Curtis was a master wicker basket weaver and wove a crib (cot) for a member of the royal ...see more
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