Nostalgia

Nostalgia

Beaconsfield Church of England School Choir in 1922. Samuel Dyer is on the left and George Aycliffe, the music teacher on the right. The choir had just won first prize at the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Music Festival at Abingdon.

The Beaconsfield School between the wars
This week we continue the history of The Beaconsfield School by looking at the development of the school from 1918 to 1940.

Picture 1: The fundraiser marchers pictured by a Bucks Free Press photographer in 1977.

PICTURES: Queen's past Jubilees across Bucks

The silent 16mm film was shot in full colour, unusual at the time, and lasts for some 40 minutes (Image: Stewkley Film Archive)

PICTURES: Rare colour film of Queen’s coronation found

Old Amersham painted by Fred Stubbings, from Amersham Museum collection.

One-day-only Fred Stubbings art exhibition

The reunion celebrates all the women musicians who have been part of the RAF Music (Credit: RAF Music Services)

RAF Music searches Bucks ex-service women for reunion

Traders raised a glass of bubbly with the Beaconsfield Mayor Alastair Pike (front) and market manager Andrew Savage (left in red).

Beaconsfield Market turns 40

22 ways you can tell someone is from High Wycombe

22 ways you can tell someone is from High Wycombe

Beaconsfield Farmers Market 20th anniversary

Celebration for 20 years of traders at popular Beaconsfield Farmers’ Market

The Art Deco Regent Cinema, demolished 1962

Remembering town's lost landmarks - including cinema and pub

Chesham High Street and view towards the Clock Tower monument (Credit: Chesham Museum)

Chesham Museum's online objects and Instagram tactics

Wladzia Tanska in her immaculate garden in Little Chalfont in March 2022, as a little girl in Poland before deportation and in Hodgemoor Camp, Amersham, in 1949.

Deported to Siberia as a little girl, now at home in Bucks

Nostalgia: What did you do in April as a youngster?

A detail from the culinary award given to Sir Hugh Wontner in 1972

Nostalgia: Bucks towns & villages adopt warships

NOSTALGIA: Mothering Sunday & other events at Hedsor

NOSTALGIA: Mothering Sunday & other events at Hedsor

Family heirlooms rescued from a skip at Hedsor

Classic Football Shirts have got two Wycombe shirts up for sale?

Two more for your collection? Retro Wycombe shirts go up for sale on popular website

Looking back at Marlow High Street in this amazing picture

Looking back at Marlow High Street in this amazing picture

Pictured left: At the start of the Tudor period in 1504 the original ‘hall house’ stands in its burgage plot with pigsty and enclosed garden

Town’s Tudor building - hidden in plain sight

Vera Florence Annie (nee Bousher), Lady Terrington

Looking back at Wycombe’s first - and only - female MP

Germain Street School, now called Thomas Harding School, Chesham

Martyr Thomas Harding - executed in Bucks for reading the bible in English

High Wycombe then vs now

How Wycombe has changed over the last 100+ years

Young enterprising Charlotte Hester with her own newspaper and Ms Hester now

Young Marlow girl owned a newspaper in the 90s – Where is she now?

John Walmsley was a Sergeant in the King’s Company stationed at Victoria Barracks in Windsor

Veteran Grenadier Guard remembers being part of King George VI's funeral 70 years on

William Tylesworth, a pious man, was burned alive at Amersham, in a close called Stoneyprat and at the same time, his daughter Joan Clarke, a married woman, was obliged to light the faggots that were to burn her father, from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

Amersham’s darkest event - the burning of martyrs

Marlow from above

Marvellous views of Marlow from the top of the All Saints Church steeple

Lucian B Ercolani during his service in the RAF

Even more memories from the chauffeur of Lucian B Ercolani

High Wycombe station in 1962

PICTURES: Looking back at some of Bucks railway stations

After 100 years, High Street shop set to become a bakery once again

After 100 years, High Street shop set to become a bakery once again

The former Cestreham boys’ school in Chesham

How the Bucks town of Chesham got its name

Here we are looking north up Crendon St towards the railway station, Christ Church is the dominant building in the centre of the picture, 1890

Back when Wycombe had two parish churches - All Saints and Christ Church

Taken in the Ercol factory; in the three men at the back, Lucian (“the Old Man”) is on the left and Lucian junior on the right. Photo courtesy of Bucks New University Furniture Archive

More fascinating memories of Lucian Brett Ercolani shared by his former chauffeur

The Bucks village that holds the world record for the largest CRACKER

Looking back at what High Wycombe was like 100 years ago

Easton St, High Wycombe, c1910

The story of Wycombe’s famous bandleader Nat Allen

Chris Collins and Goya Perfumes. c 1970 courtesy Amersham Museum

The glamorous jet-setter 'Mr Goya' - Amersham’s Chris Collins

Undated handout photo issued by Findmypast of instructions on how to complete the 1921 Census among the pages of one of the 30,000 volumes of the 1921 Census at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) near Southampton.

How do I view the 1921 census? Is it free? Your questions answered

The Kings Arms Hotel, in Old Amersham, has featured in many TV programmes and movies including Midsomer Murders and Four Weddings and a Funeral

The charming Amersham pub featured in Four Weddings and a Funeral

A night-time view of an illuminated Christmas tree in Frogmoor, High Wycombe, 1950s

The history of the Christmas tree tradition

Acqua Manda the iconic 70s fragrance

The iconic perfume brand that was manufactured in Bucks

Lucian Brett Ercolani in his RAF service uniform, c.1940

Fascinating memories of Lucian Brett Ercolani shared by his former chauffeur

Fascinating history of the Bucks Free Press as it turns 165

Fascinating history of the Bucks Free Press as it turns 165

Ley Hill Methodist congregation in 1989

New book tells 180 years of Ley Hill church history

Woman who had TWO birth certificates finally finds out who her real dad is

Woman who had TWO birth certificates finally finds out who her real dad is

Beel House c 1958, courtesy of Dirk Bogarde Estate

Fascinating history of the Bucks mansion owned by Ozzy Osbourne, Robert Kilroy-Silk and Dirk Bogarde

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Pagers, clockwork cats and gramophones - looking back at BFP adverts for Christmas gifts

Poppy wreaths at the Chesham war memorial, 2019

100 years of Royal British Legion and Poppy Appeal

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Looking back at the old High Wycombe church that was demolished on Crendon Street

The same view today, the Sunday School building has been named Kingfisher House

The hamlet of 'Bird-in-Hand' that used to exist to the west of High Wycombe

Headliners revealed for next year's Let’s Rock The Moor eighties festival

Guests, some in fancy dress, at the High Wycombe & District Caledonian Halloween party at the Civic Restaurant in St Mary Street, October 1952

The Halloween tradition in Bucks

Poster for “Hats Off Chesham” festival

Hats-Off - a longtime tradition in Chesham

'Properly looked-after ruins could be a stunning gateway to High Wycombe'

OPINION 'Properly looked-after ruins could be a stunning gateway to High Wycombe'

William Graham’s Station Garage, agent for Armstrong Siddeley cars

Memories of shopping in Amersham-on-the-Hill

An elevated view of the burnt-out bus and lorry after the collision at the junction of Oakridge Rd and Green St, High Wycombe, April 21, 1939

Another look back at school's history - including tragic bus accident which killed driver