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When I was a lad
The lad leaning on the wall was John Cook, whose father was a policeman in NP, the guy to the left in the dark suite is me and the lad sitting on the pillar (to the right) was David Ashworth son of Major Ashworth who lived in Silver Street.
A memory of Newport Pagnell contributed by Anthony Burt
The Great Linford
I had heard of The Great Linford and can trace genealogy back to the one subjects that lived on the Great Linford although it is not named after any of my ancestors.
In 2000, I had the opportunity to vist London and rented a car and drove out to Milton Keynes and the Great Linford just to see what it was all about. It is amazing that the buildings have endured as long as they have. I found it peacful and serene even though the Great Linford Manor is now a recording studio. I hope to return one day and spend more than a couple of hours and see more of the area.
A memory of Great Linford contributed by Paul Linford
Reminiscing
I was born in NW London. My first visit to Woburn Sands was about 1950 when my Uncle Ted and Aunt Ada moved here. They lived at the 'Dene' Aspley Hill. Aunt Ada did the housework for Mrs Russell the owner of the 'Dene' and my uncle drove a lorry for Marston Bricks. My school holidays were spent here cycling around the district. Then in 1955 my father Charles Batham bought 'Quarry Cottage' in Sandy Lane, Aspley Heath. At that time there was no electricity or sewer. Mum cooked on a wood stove and we read by oil lamps. No TV or radio. The toilet was the outhouse. I met my wife Barbara while travelling to work at Bletchley. We married ...read more here
A memory of Woburn Sands contributed by Roy Batham
My roots
I lived at the family home at the Three Locks, which was about one mile out of Stoke Hammond. Every Sunday from around five years of age, I walked to St Luke's Parish Church, Stoke Hammond to attend Sunday School. In later years I was the Sunday School teacher for a time. I was also confirmed here.
Along with my brother, I joined the church choir which we were members for many years. I remember we walked to the church services very often three times every Sunday. My brother also played the organ during his late teens, and he was a member of the bell ringing team. I also learnt to ring the bells about eight years ago at this ...read more here
A memory of Stoke Hammond contributed by stephanie mcpherson
Extracts From Olney & Buckinghamshire books
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".
Down at Church End there is another more well-known and photographed pond; it and the 13th-century parish church
are to the left of the War Memorial. This view shows the characteristic rendered walls of the village houses. The render
hides walls built in the local limey clay known as ‘witchert’, a corruption of white earth. Alcohol is also well represented
here: the house on the right was the maltster’s, the maltings being in the yard behind, while two other houses in this view
were once pubs.
An extract from from"Aylesbury Photographic Memories".
This view looks towards the main entrance ranges, which were altered and added to by Brandon in the 1860s and 1870s.
On the left, out of view, is Brandon’s chapel, a surprisingly large cruciform Gothic-style stone church of the 1860s and
the only building to survive the housing estate deluge that replaced the hospital. Unfortunately, as I write it has not yet
found a new use. To fix your bearings, the drive in this view is now Warren Close, one of the 1990s housing estate roads.
An extract from from"Aylesbury Photographic Memories".