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Our home on the village green
I lived in Quainton in the 1950s, on the corner of The Green and Lower St. My family had the drapers shop. I remember bonfire night on the green, rolling down Mill Hill, Christmas carols, ballet lessons in the church hall and sitting the 11+ exams at school and of being sent to the Sportsmans Inn for a packet of Woods or Weights cigarettes for my father.
With my parents Ray and Sylvia Wheatley, my sister Barbara and brother Ian we emigrated to Australia but I will not forget the fun we had in Quainton
Clare Masovic nee Wheatley
A memory of Quainton contributed by Clare Masovic
I lived here! Ref. Photo O65003
These were Elmwood Cottages in the Worminghall Road. I was born in the far end house, and lived my first 25 years in the 8th semi along. My Mum and Dad would have had our house since new. It seems odd to think that we were probably at home when this was taken. They were demolished in 1984 to make way for brand new houses. The lovely Elm trees that used to stand in front of the houses sadly got Dutch Elm disease in the 1970s and had to be felled. Just in the foreground on the left is the village garage that was owned and run by Aubrey Bristow, and to the right, just out of picture is the Royal ...read more here
A memory of Oakley contributed by Andrew Kinch
Summer Days in Stone
We were very lucky to grow up in Stone at a time when we could hang out all day with our friends enjoying the joys of the river at Eythrope, sipping cool water from the Egyptian Springs, or swinging on a rope over the dip in Bluebell Woods, there was always someone to play with and just chat about nothing. Idyllic days!
A memory of Stone contributed by geraldine akerman
Whiskin's Grocers
In the 1871 census records my Great, Great, Great Grandfather owned a grocery store in this street. His name was Charles Whiskin and he lived here with his wife Susannah and Catherine, Edward and Ernest his children. Many other relatives lived here also along with a nurse maid and a chap called Henry Green who again worked in the shop.
A memory of Aylesbury contributed by Tammalyn Williams
Extracts From Grendon Underwood & Buckinghamshire books
The name of this cottage is a reminder of a very important medieval and late
medieval building tradition in this area, possibly associated with the abundance of
oak trees in the Bernwood Forest and its surroundings. A cruck is best described
as an A-frame, a pair of massive timbers that run from the ground to the apex
of the roof, usually cut from the same tree. Long Crendon has over 20 cruck
houses, an unusual concentration, but many of the villages round about have a few
- Haddenham has four and Grendon Underwood two, for example. Often hidden
behind render, as here, they are still being discovered.
An extract from from"North Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".
Grendon Underwood is a long, straggling village, with the gaps filled steadily from
the 1950s onwards. This view is at the less interesting east end of Main Road,
away from the parish church, the moat, the Georgian rectory and Shakespeare
Farmhouse, where the bard is reputed to have stayed. Attridge’s (right) is now
Grendon Stores, and the plot in the foreground now has a 1980s house, a better
design than the dull bungalows on the left of about 1960.
An extract from from"North Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".
Moving east, the route passes through Whitchurch on its way back to Aylesbury. Whitchurch is a long village with many
fine houses and cottages, and also the remains of Hugh of Bolbec’s early 12th-century earthwork castle. Oving Road runs
east from the High Street; this view is taken beyond its junction with Market Hill looking west, showing the mix of building
materials found in the village: timber-framing, brick, local crumbly limestone, thatch, tiles and slate.
An extract from from"Aylesbury Photographic Memories".
The Black Boy is on the left, with the Victorian school, now a house, beyond the car. The ugly lean-to on the cottage has
been replaced by a conservatory, and the railings by a rubble stone wall. The church, like Quainton’s, was substantially
rebuilt, this time in the 1860s, a not uncommon result of medieval use of the local highly friable limestone.
An extract from from"Aylesbury Photographic Memories".
Moving north-east of Waddesdon, the last two villages on this tour, Oving and Whitchurch, are on the Quainton-
Whitchurch Hills, a ridge of Portland limestone that gives fine views over the Vale of Aylesbury to the south and towards
Buckingham to the north. Oving is a most attractive village. Here we see Magpie Cottage, a fine 17th-century timber-
framed thatched cottage with whitewashed infill panels, hence the name, presumably.
An extract from from"Aylesbury Photographic Memories".