Maids Moreton, The Leys c.1955
Photo ref:
M264012
Photo ref:
M264012
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North of Main Street, the dignified 1950s council housing was built on The Leys field. In the foreground Old Page's Cottage is another of Maids Moreton's late timber-framed cottages, with thin timbers and a thatched roof.
An extract from Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories.
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I was born in a cottage opposite the Wheatsheaf pub when our village was greatly different from what it has become. I grew up in the proverbial English village. Happy days. I remember Baroness Kinloss, relative to the Duke of Buckingham , dressed all in black, knocking on our door to wait until there were no customers in Mrs. Roberts Post Office. I would be dispatched to the Post Office and run back to our ...see more
I remember spending part of school summer holidays here as my grandparents lived in the village, they were Robert John King and Florence Emma King, nee Stanton. I used to go across to the shop from their cottage on Main Street and buy 'Hubbly Bubbly', always pineapple flavour, I remember the Old Post office and Scotts Farm, 'The Wheatsheaf' pub and 'The Buckingham Arms'. And dad would show me the old school ...see more
I can never pass through Maids Moreton without recalling my first day at work as an apprentice electrician for The East Midlands Electricity Board, Buckingham. It was April 14th 1958 and I was assigned to Mr Jack Holland, electrician, and we were sent to install a lighting point in a rear toilet for 'Mrs Holmes, The Old Bakehouse, Main Street', and I have never fogotten it. It was the beginning of a ...see more
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