General Chat

Susie Why are there always so many cars parked on Holmers Farm Way ? Do they belong to the householders or is there some industry round there without a car park? Len

hi len the cars belong to john lewis staff!! we've all had enough and signed endless petitions but hey! we are only mere residents lol its horrendous when theyve got a sale on! theyve got an overflow carpark which is at the end of my rd,but apparently thats for customers only:( susie

Susie Get the Bucks Free Press involved. I would guess they would love it. JL would hate the adverse publicity though and might even do something. Len

Susie For my birthday, Mary my wife gave me patchworka quilt she had made depicting in pictures 4 generations of my family tree. She is a quilter. I had to help (by making the image-transfer sheets from photos) and offered a couple more generations - but she hadn't got the time to make it that big. She also picked up the tab from The Lambert Arms. Len

Seeing the thread on Saturday Morning Pictures reminded me............Anyone remember when the pictures used to be down at Frogmore? I remember when the new one opened at the back of where Woolworths was/is too. The old Bus Garage down at Frogmore and the old Police Station on Huenden Road. (I was born in the house next door to that) Geeze! I fell old now! Sheila

I remember the Palace and the Odeon but I seem to recall someone saying there was another one somewhere. Anyone remember?

There was another one in Desborough Road, No.260, where Wycombe Counselling Service now have their offices. Len

hi sheila and len the flicks on frogmore was called the palace! although we all used to call it the flea pit lol susie

Thanks for that Len. When I was dating many moons ago, we used to go the fish and chip shop, which was on Frogmoor I think, and have a sit down meal and then go to the 'pictures' for the matinee.

My dad used to go to the picture at Frogmore in the late 1930's to watch the cowboy films...and stay all day! He and my gramp (after I was born) used to drink in the Beconsfield Arms. Is that still there? Most of my family at one time or another worked at Harrisons Stamp Factory. I believe that closed...or at least they stopped doing Royal Mail Stamps. Sheila

Hi Susie I was along your way today. Didn't see you. Went to John Lewis and bought an 8ft curtain rail. Tight-fisted lot didn't even give me a bag. Len

Hi all you ex Hatters Laners out there.I am also an 'Old Girl"and was in Miss Hancocks class 4G1. I remember her as being very strict but also very fair. I think the RE teacher some of you are thinking of may have been Mrs Instone. I left HL in 1965. The other Cinema in Wycombe was The Rex.

Just a thought-Does any one else remember Miss Hartley who was the Headmistress before Miss Barford,She was worse.

Hello to Susie and Trish.Haven't been on the boards for a while.Had visitors from the UK.

Hi Trish from Somerset-You don't mean Duces fish and chip shop do you?

hi everyone just thought i drop in before going to work...lovely eh?lol i remember duces in bull lane,the best fish and chips in town! len you should have dropped in for a coffee and a big slice slice of cake lol john lewis are a funny lot hubby and me went there just for a browse , in our jeans,and they looked at us as if we had two heads!! very upper crust in there susie

Thanks Susie,I was trying to remember just where the fish and chip shop was.I can recall Aldridges fruiterers somewhere around there too.We used to catch the bus to Micklefield outside The Bull pub.

Miss Powell was definately the RE teacher when I was there and apparently my form teacher in my first year....which I dont remember at all...I just read it on my old school report! Ive been told that Hatters Lane has a worse reputation now than it did then.........Is that possible do you think????? Sheila

Hi Valerie, yes, it could have been Duces - I have a terrible memory for names...... and places.......and faces.....etc etc. Miss Barford is the only head that I knew, I suppose I started there about 68ish

Has anyone mentioned Murrays Department Store yet? I used to work opposite that at one time when I worked in Bellmans.