With the days getting longer and warmer, and the lockdown restrictions beginning to be eased, we are all looking forward to the “Great Outdoors”.
The ability to sit or play in the garden, or visit the local park, take a stroll by the river, or even attend a sports fixture, is returning.
So this week we take a look at some of the activities in pictures from the archives. They were all taken in March in different years in the past.
Children pose on the rocking horse in the playground on the recreation ground, Straight Bit, Flackwell Heath, 1953:
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These Wycombe Wanderers fans are off to Doncaster to support their team in a F A Amateur cup semi-final match against Bishop Auckland, the railway station yard, High Wycombe, 1955:
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Feeding the swans and ducks alongside the Dyke on the Rye, High Wycombe, 1961:
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Mothering Sunday at the church of St Nicholas in Hedsor, when children were handed a bunch of daffodils to give to their mothers, 1960:
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But it can snow even in March, and did so in 1965. These boys are enjoying themselves tobogganing down Tom Burt’s Hill, High Wycombe:
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