Do any of these images “Ring a Bell” in your memory of by-gone life in High Wycombe?

If so – then you may well have attended the former Wycombe Technical College in Easton Street, High Wycombe.

If you did, then you will be interested to know that a website has been created solely for you, your contemporaries, and those past, to record and show to others what life was like at “The Tech”.

The website has been created by Ivan (Spadger) Sparrow, who attended the Technical Institute from 1957 to 1960. He now resides in Western Australia.

Contemporaries of Ivan may well remember the maths and science teacher John “Chick” Fowles – a true gentleman and devoted to his vocation as a teacher. Never was a bad word spoken against him.

A look at the website : Wycombe Tech – “The Old School” , will show you photos, memories, memorabilia, and comments – from the 1920’s right up to the 1960’s - that have been gathered together from ex-pupils and others that had an association with “The Tech”.

This is a free-to-use website (not commercial, not sponsored, or otherwise linked).

Anyone can contribute with photos, memories, and comments, providing of course that such relates solely to “The Tech”.

When the college was considered redundant (it is now subsumed in John Hampden Grammar School), much of the history was destroyed in a big bonfire.

Up in smoke went all those school records and personal memories of life at “The Tech”.

The website hopes to compensate to some degree by recording the actual history of the “The Tech”. After viewing the website, you may wish to dust off some of your old school photos, or put pen to paper and share your memories and comments on subjects that are already on the site, or perhaps wish to have other topics included.

This is your website, for you to use and provide historical information for future generations to learn from and comprehend, as well as to preserve a valuable part of High Wycombe history.

As Ivan states: “The kick-off has taken place and it is now up to members of the team to score as many goals as we can, before the final whistle blows. The site can be used to renew past friendships or to publish Reunions."

It is yours – to celebrate the history of the Wycombe Tech – “The Old School”.

If you have anything that you think will enhance the website, contact the Administrator Ivan Sparrow via email. Alternatively contact Mike Dewey on 01494 755070 or email him at deweymiked@aol.com, and Mike will forward the information onto Ivan in Australia.