This week we take a look at five of the pictures which are amongst the latest batch of over 300 which have just been loaded onto the Sharing Wycombe’s Old Photographs website www.swop.org.uk.
These include the remainder of the collection loaned by the Wooburn Residents’ Association, and a large number of the pictures taken by Ron Goodearl in the 1950/60s where the negatives are glass plates kept at the Bucks Free Press offices.
Here we see members of the All Saints Youth Club pictured at their soft-drinks bar, part of the Club facilities in the Oakley Hall in Castle St, High Wycombe, January 1956:
Perhaps surprisingly, this picture was in the Wooburn Residents’ Association collection, even though it has no obvious connection with Wooburn. Taken in the early 1940s, it shows men from what is believed to be a local Royal Artillery Unit, but where was it taken? If you have any suggestions email deweymiked@aol.com:
Children with small fishing nets by the Dyke on the Rye, High Wycombe, April 1967:
A group of boys and girls are enjoying themselves in Hughenden Park, Hughenden, April 1967:
In January 1956 members of the Beaconsfield Women’s Institute put on a production of “Aladdin” in the Burnham Hall:
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