Oving
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So You Think You Know? High Wycombe
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- 5 photos on Oving appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Oving
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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
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
Kingsbury
The WWI tank was removed because little boys used to enter and use it as a toilet. It exploded when the welder went to work on it because there was still petrol in the fuel tank, not ammunition. The welder flew across Kingsbury and landed, dead, in front of Ivatt's shoe shop (the signs are still up on the wall). The Rockwell has reverted to its original name (thank heavens), why are pub names changing all the time? The Hen & Chicks became "Big Hand Moe's", look what happened to it!
A memory of Aylesbury contributed by Doug Caton
Extracts From Oving & Buckinghamshire books
Oving, west of Whitchurch, lies off the main road, and is a very pretty village on the
Portland limestone ridge. Many people visit the Black Boy Inn, which has expansive
views northwards across the vale towards North Marston. The cottage now has its
stone exposed, and a lean-to conservatory replaces the brick lean-to. Behind it is
the Victorian village school, now a house. Behind the photographer on the left is a
good timber-framed thatched cottage.
An extract from from"North Buckinghamshire 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".
The telegraph wires
have long gone to be
succeeded by other
media, and although most
of the houses in this
view remain, the place is
virtually unrecognisable
and the traffic scanty: this
is the main A40 London
to Oxford road.
An extract from from"Buckinghamshire 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".
Looking north along this lane which leads to the main street, Tinker End Cottages on the right are a fine group of
18th- and 19th-century labourers’ cottages. The distant chimney is that of The Manor House.
An extract from from"Buckinghamshire Photographic Memories".