Bucks Free Press | Nostalgic Pictures

View from the top

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:03:14 +0000

IN the 18 and 19th centuries a traveller from the direction of Oxford would know that he was approaching the village of Stokenchurch when the windmill came into view, above right. This was built in 1736, and was the last working windmill in Bucks when it was blown down in a gale in the spring of 1926.

Pubs and their pasts

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:31:02 +0000

HAVING safely ascended Dashwood Hill we can stop for some liquid refreshment at The Harrow public house in Studley Green, before proceeding into Stokenchurch.

Dashwood's charity built steep road

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:44:17 +0000

Leaving the Wormsley Estate we link up with the road from Marlow, which takes us to the village of Stokenchurch.

Vivid memories of village life

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:01:37 +0000

CONTINUING our series focusing in and around Turville we look at the childhood of another reader who was brought up in the area.

Our very own 'Sleeping Beauty'

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:30:20 +0000

LAST week we took a look at the dwelling in Turville called Wisteria Cottage. The village has many cottages with similarly evocative names.

Daylight could be seen through the walls

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:05:44 +0000

Turville village is surrounded by springs and in the early years of the 20th century the onset of the wet season marked the rising of these springs, which caused extensive flooding of the village along the main road, left, known to this day as Watery Lane.

She had her cake, but didn’t eat it!

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:33:48 +0100

The origins of Turville village date back to at least 796 AD, when the King of the Mercians granted the village to the Abbey at St Albans.

The children were very poorly clad

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:51:25 +0000

The housing ‘estates’ which were the foundation of what became the slums of Newland, were only a few yards from the prosperous shopkeepers in White Hart Street.

This was the News - October 28

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:00:00 +0000

THIS was the news around Bucks 25, 15 and 10 years ago.

Wide load in High Wycombe

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:04:50 +0000

THIS photograph shows a wide-load from Airtech Ltd negotiating the tight corner between Church Street and High Street, High Wycombe.