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Waddesdon books (6 available)
- 8 photos on Waddesdon appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Waddesdon
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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
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
Canal bank down from Park St. bridge
I never saw this part of the canal as shown in this photo, the opposite bank was the site of Frith's, the builders' supply company. My father was a salesman for Frith's for many years. The location was called Hilda's Warf, and earlier in the 50's & the 40's supplies such as bathroom tiles were delivered by narrow boat. (Tiles are fragile & the canal was a smooth ride.) Of course Frith's is long gone, its now a row of townhouses.
A memory of Aylesbury contributed by Doug Caton
Extracts From Waddesdon & Buckinghamshire books
Now owned by the National
Trust, Waddesdon Manor is
a massive French chateau
deposited on a windswept
hilltop for Baron Ferdinand de
Rothschild, famed for its superb
porcelain collection, fittings
salvaged from French chateaux
and other treasures. Rothschild
used a French architect, the
splendidly-named Hippolyte
Alexandre Gabriel Walter
Destailleur. The work took from
1877 to 1899, and was finished
by Destailleur’s son, Andre. This
view is of the wonderfully ornate
and utterly French garden front.
An extract from from"North Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".
An extraordinary view: for instead of the great chateau by the French architect, Destailleur, Frith’s photographer
chose to photograph the lake down by the home farm whose granary can be see out on the right.
An extract from from"Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".
St Michael’s parish church is north of the High Street, and a reminder of a pre-
Rothschild era for the village, although the chancel was restored at his expense in
1877. Inside, the nave south arcade is partly late 12th-century and of high quality,
and so are the rest of the nave arches, which are early 14th-century. The exterior
is quite austere, but the interior of the nave makes it worth persevering to find the
church key.
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".