BEING the start of April 2022 I thought that we should look back at some of the local activities which we might have been involved in during the month of April in the 1950s and 60s.
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With the rapidly increasing number of motor vehicles in the 50s and 60s, keeping safe on the roads was an important message to get across to children. As part of the Road Safety Campaign local authorities employed well-known entertainers to explain how to keep safe when crossing the road. Here we see Coco the Clown talking to children at Spring Gardens School, 1963.
High Wycombe had a visit from the Queen only a couple of months before her Coronation in April 1952.
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A Festival of Britain was held in 1951 and as part of this celebration towns and villages all over the country arranged special celebrations. These children are enjoying the entertainment at Stokenchurch.
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These young ladies have joined the entertainers, musicians playing the organ and the accordion, at a venue in Beaconsfield, 1953.
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The Rye has always been a popular place to visit in Wycombe and here we see a number of boys playing with their model boats in what was the paddling pool near Pann Mill, 1952.
Look out for next Friday’s Bucks Free Press for more pictures of the Queen’s visit to Wycombe in 1962.
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