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Riding through High Wycombe in 1957

12:01pm Tuesday 28th October 2008

BYSTANDERS seem perplexed by the unusual sight of a jockey and racehorse in the town centre in this photograph.

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Fascinating Bucks pictures discovered

1:56pm Tuesday 14th October 2008

FOUR mysterious boxes of glass plates – the forerunner of film photographs – have appeared at the Midweek offices.

An excited news team opened the boxes labelled Ancient Victorian Plates to find scores of images, some of apparent family groups, portraits and scenes recording sites which may have disappeared forever under new developments.

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Apartheid protest

10:03am Tuesday 14th October 2008

THIS photograph, taken in February 1960, shows protestors in Frogmoor, High Wycombe, taking a stand against the South African policy of apartheid.

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Hazlemere netball team

9:31am Tuesday 7th October 2008

THIS is a Hazlemere netball team in the year that Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module and massive anti Vietnam war demonstrations are held in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, DC.

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Do you know any of them?

9:51am Tuesday 30th September 2008

THIS certainly looks like a well-behaved bunch, paying the sort of attention most schoolteachers can only dream of getting from their pupils.

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Football during the war

9:21am Tuesday 23rd September 2008

This is Booker Football Club’s first eleven lining up for their team photo around the time that allied forces landed in southern France and French and allied troops start the attack on Paris.

Crowds gather in Wycombe

9:27am Tuesday 16th September 2008

This is High Wycombe High Street in the year that the United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States, which became the third to join the new international organisation, and Lord Haw-Haw is charged with treason.

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Shoppers in 1955

9:35am Tuesday 9th September 2008

THIS busy scene of shoppers crossing the road was taken in High Wycombe High Street in the year that the Scrabble board game made its debut and Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first time.

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Coronation party

10:40am Tuesday 2nd September 2008

THIS lot look like a strange bunch, full of young cowboys, soldiers and youngsters clearly wearing their Sunday best.

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Anyone know about this picture?

10:03am Tuesday 8th July 2008

In the year that Winston Churchill announced Britain had an atomic bomb and the concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, was first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer, this photo was taken in Buckinghamshire. It was February 1952 and shows a group of approximately 70 men standing and sitting outside a wooden building. One, wearing a top hat in the second row, is holding a ukulele. Do you know where this location is? Do you recognise any of the men? Perhaps you can spot your grandfather, dad or uncle? Anyone with information should call Mike Dewey on 01494 755105 or 01628 525207 or e-mail jnadal@london.newsquest.co.uk