Buckingham, The Old Gaol c.1950
Photo ref:
B280028
Photo ref:
B280028
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Built by Lord Cobham of Stowe in 1748 to help regain the assizes for Buckingham, and extended in 1839, the castellated Gothic building has been superbly restored as a fascinating museum. The ivy, of course, has been stripped off.
An extract from Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories.
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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 Buckingham
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I remember going to church garden party here, just at the back of the church
As a schoolboy, my brother Tony had Highlands Rd as a paper round and I had Woodlands Crescent. In 1965 I was 15 but operated this paper round in my brothers absence from 1960 to 1963 for Smiths. Fond memories brother if you read this...
Pete Holland 10.1.2014
I was born in Olney in May 1945. My mum had been sent from bombed out East London to a safe place to have her baby, me. I was taken back to London 2 weeks after I was born. The house where I was born had been set up for pregnant women to have their babies. I was told that the library in the house was designed by Sir John Soane. The house was later turned into a health farm.
I should love to go back to Olney for a ...see more
My father was a drover who worked at the cattle market untill it closed in the 1950s. His name was Reg Coulton (Ginger). I rode on the back of his motorbike all the way from Northampton. I also rember the poultry was sold in a yard further down the street Kept warm in the winter in BARONS GRILL. Happy days.
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