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Growing up in Denham
I was born in 1938 but came to live in Denham in 1948. My dad was then the local Police Sergeant, Sid Smith and my mum, Hilda, was a member of the Mothers' Union and Women's Institute. I remember going to school on Cheapside Lane - Headmaster Entwhistle after Captain Thompson, Jack Rudman, Miss Martin, Miss Richardson - students Neville Johnson, Ann Seymour, Maureen Dyson, David Campling - so long ago. Being in the choir at St Mary's Church, doing the paper route from Valerie Evans' newsagents in the village, delivering the meat on Saturday mornings from the village butcher, working summers at Denham Garage on the A40. When Neville, David and I went off to Slough Technical School we still ...read more here
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Winch gliding with my father
My father, Edward Wyatt, spent every spare moment he could flying his glider at Denham airfield. We lived in Higher Denham and used to get taken to the airfield many a Sunday. I was 6 in 1953, and I recall the taste of the soup that was served in the canteen, and of course, the flights themselves. My brother, sister, and I were strapped into the back seat of the glider and off we would go, my father often insisting we take the controls. I remember the winch letting go as we would soar up to what seemed like the heavens. My dad also had a small plane, and would take us flying to high altitudes to help alleviate whooping cough ...read more here
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my favourite bridge
I remember this bridge from when I was little and living in Higher Denham. We often walked into the village this way, past the lovely brick wall and past the hut where we got free orange juice after the war. My grandmother ran the pub, THE PLOUGH, which was up the road straight ahead in the photo. My brother once fell in the river near this bridge. We were in the tiny newsagent's shop in the village, and he went out the back door and fell into the river. It wasn't deep and he was soon fished out, but we still tease him about it! I took my children back to Denham (from Canada) a few years ago, and ...read more here
Contributed by Jennifer Schinkel
Middlesex memories
Growing up in Denham
I was born in 1938 but came to live in Denham in 1948. My dad was then the local Police Sergeant, Sid Smith and my mum, Hilda, was a member of the Mothers' Union and Women's Institute. I remember going to school on Cheapside Lane - Headmaster Entwhistle after Captain Thompson, Jack Rudman, Miss Martin, Miss Richardson - students Neville Johnson, Ann Seymour, Maureen Dyson, David Campling - so long ago. Being in the choir at St Mary's Church, doing the paper route from Valerie Evans' newsagents in the village, delivering the meat on Saturday mornings from the village butcher, working summers at Denham Garage on the A40. When Neville, David and I went off to Slough Technical School we still ...read more here
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Extracts From Denham & Middlesex books
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".
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".