MEMBERS of the Hedgerley Historical Society have renewed appeals for help with their project to compile a video to mark the millennium.

The video will look at Hedgerley, past and present.

Brenda White, involved in the society's 2000 Project, said: "The response has been reasonable but, because of the timing of our appeal being near Christmas, we are running it again and hope for more people to respond."

Christopher Rake, 59, of Bradenham Road, High Wycombe, saw the previous appeal in the Bucks Free Press and contacted the society. He has memories of the village from the Second World War.

He said: "I can remember the noise of the aircraft and war vehicles such as tanks kept at Burnham Beeches during the D-Day landing.

"My father, William Rake, who used to live in Roberts Road, was a Royal Mechanical Engineer, and one day I remember going to school in a tank trans- porter." Mr Rake also recalls a number of families who used to live in the area who may be able to help with the research.

These include Rex and Greta Harvey, now believed to have moved to Devon, and a family called Rees, from Roberts Road, Hedgerley, in the 1930s, who are now believed to live in Wycombe.

If you have any information which may help the project, contact Brenda White on (01753) 646100.

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