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Wendover books (6 available)
- 9 photos on Wendover appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Wendover
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Wendover memories
Read and share memories of Wendover and Buckinghamshire inspired by Frith photos
Spitfire
I recall a huge thermometer erected on the clock tower, it was graduated in pounds sterling with a picture of a Spitfie at the top> We children, and of course the rest of the Wendover community subscribed as much as we could as often as we could in order to puchase our very own Spitfire, as Wendover's contribution to the war effort. I was an evacuee from the bombing of London at the time, I also recall seeing an army tank sliding into a sweet shop on the corner opposite the clock tower. I wonder if any of these wonderful people who made my stay in their village so memorable are still with us today :- Mr Mathews of Mathews Bakery, ...read more here
Contributed by Edward Pace
Buckinghamshire memories
Spitfire
I recall a huge thermometer erected on the clock tower, it was graduated in pounds sterling with a picture of a Spitfie at the top> We children, and of course the rest of the Wendover community subscribed as much as we could as often as we could in order to puchase our very own Spitfire, as Wendover's contribution to the war effort. I was an evacuee from the bombing of London at the time, I also recall seeing an army tank sliding into a sweet shop on the corner opposite the clock tower. I wonder if any of these wonderful people who made my stay in their village so memorable are still with us today :- Mr Mathews of Mathews Bakery, ...read more here
A memory of Wendover contributed by Edward Pace
HALTON 1978-1983: PLAYING IN THE CANAL & SCHOOL
My name is Forsyth now, but I was a Plumb.
I moved to Halton when I was six and joined Halton 1st School and then Wendover Middle School.
I lived in the big black and white house, which bordered the canal. There was a bridge, which my friends and I used to climb along. I expect it’s not that high, but it felt so daring at the time. We had a long garden at the front that we used to stand in to watch the air displays.
My best friends were a boy who lived opposite me and a girl who lived in the village shop - which was cool!
One day my friend, Amanda from Wendover Middle School, ...read more here
A memory of Halton Village contributed by Charlotte Forsyth
AUNTY ELIZA and her son ALF
Great Aunty Liza lived in an area called Buckland Wharf in a long, low, white bungalow where time stood still except the Grandfather Clock ticked in her "parlour" to tell us otherwise. The room was very dark because the blinds were drawn "to keep out the sun". There was a heavily framed picture of her husband on the wall- a severe looking man with a handlebar moustache - very much the Victorian gentleman. I cannot remember the furniture but vividly remember the rag rugs on the floor. In her kitchen she cooked over a range, did her washing in an old butler sink and bathed weekly in an old tin bath. She was quite the handywoman and on her 80th birthday ...read more here
A memory of Buckland contributed by Christine Beddows
Extracts From Wendover & Buckinghamshire books
This wonderful range of 17th-century thatched timber-framed cottages sweeps down the Tring Road towards the
clock tower. Unfortunately, since then, the road has been considerably widened and the walls moved about 60 ft
further away as concrete retaining walls.
An extract from from"Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".
This long view of
Wendover is taken from
the opposite direction to
No 44773, looking north-
east from the foot of
Bacombe Hill; here the
national long distance
footpath, the Ridgeway
Path, leaves the road to
climb towards Coombe
Hill. In the middle distance
is the railway line to
Aylesbury, then part of the
Metropolitan Railway and
opened in 1891.
An extract from from"Aylesbury Photographic Memories".
The photographer is looking
south-west across the pretty
market town of Wendover, which
lies on the edge of the Chilterns.
The foreground field is now
housing, Honey Banks and
Hampden Road, with Bank Farm in
the dip below. Beyond is the
clocktower at the centre of the
town. In the distance is Coombe
Hill; since 1904, three years after
this view, it has been dominated
by a Boer War memorial obelisk.
An extract from from"Aylesbury Photographic Memories".
This view is from by the station approach and is little changed, although the pavements and road are more
formalised. The Shoulder of Mutton clearly wished to attract railway passengers and added ‘or Station Hotel’ to its name.
An extract from from"Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".
We are a little further north-west, and the clock tower disappears from view. The view is little changed since the
1950s, apart from more parked cars. Sturrick House on the far left, once a temperance hotel, is 16th-century, but
the ground floor frontage is 18th-century. The building on the far right, Manor Farm House, has a rendered front
concealing a jettied timber-framed house of about 1600.
An extract from from"North Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".