Over 300 more pictures have recently been added to the SWOP website www.swop.org.uk. These include around 100 photographs taken by local amateur photographer Joseph Stone. This brings the total taken by him during the 1890’s on SWOP to 345.
The remaining 200 or so of the 300 are the usual eclectic mix of local scenes from the 1950s and 1960s. These range from the construction of the elevated section of the M40 motorway through (or above !) Loudwater, to scenes from a local farm-auction. The location of that farm is unknown, so if any reader knows which farm it is would they please email me deweymiked@aol.com or phone 01628 525207.
An auctioneer addresses a group of potential buyers during an auction at a local farm, February 1956:
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A dog watches children playing on a climbing-frame on the Bellfield Estate, April 1968:
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The children of Totteridge Sunday School presented a concert in the Church Hall, Totteridge, February 1956:
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An early stage in the construction of the M40 motorway where it crosses over Loudwater, the longitudinal steel beams which will support the carriageway have been installed, March 1968:
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The scene after a heavy fall of snow, Priory Avenue, High Wycombe, January 1968:
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SWOP is now on facebook
The SWOP team now has its own group page on facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/465354317971664 entitled Sharing Wycombe’s Old Photographs (SWOP) and you can request to join by accessing the page. The group samples some of the thousands of old images of Wycombe and the surrounding areas from the main website at swop.org.uk. Members will be able to view the images sampled, add comments and relate their own reminiscences.
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