Amersham Through Time

First licensed as a beer house in and purchased by E. It was in Benskin's ownership in when it was declared redundant by the licensing authorities and closed the following year. The press report on the redundancy hearing described it as having small cottages adjoining on both sides and that the house abutted directly on to the pavement.

The taproom was the only room primarily used for the licensed trade although a strategically placed form in the entrance lobby catered for any overflow.

The bar parlour was used by the licensee as a sitting room and dining room. There was also a clubroom that had fallen into disuse. Demolished in the late s else it would be on the perimeter of Tesco's car park. Oakfield Corner - Sycamore Road The corner building has seen many tenants.

Originally in a building opposite Challoners now the telephone exchange it moved to a new building on Hill Avenue, then in the s moved to Oakfield Corner sharing a building with Martins. The Hill Avenue building remaining as a sorting office. The barbers was called Bernard's. Oakfield Corner in The shop is now empty but for a while it sold material can't remember the name and it was a French Patisserie again, can't remember the name Next to where Lavells used to be is now Val's - green grocer. This shop used to be on Hill Avenue. Before Val took over the site in Sycamore Road, it was occupied for many years by a green grocer who we used to call the "mini market", the site developed from a market stall to a lean to building.

Keens - TV sales and later repairs - closed in Amersham in after many years. Two famous names lost from Amersham in - Halfords and Woolworths. Just off Sycamore Road, leading to Woodside Close - Pamela Denton remember - " As a young girl in the forties, I remember a small single storey shop, a bit of a ramshackle affair, opposite the public toilets, which sold baby clothes.

It later became Hill's the greengrocer before being pulled down for the present buildings. Above Accent, previously Woodcocks. This shop had a lovely shop front with deep entrance and windows both sides. Now a bland mobile phone shop! Plummer used to run the Amersham Fire Brigade - the fire station used to be by Woolworths - details supplied by Cleone Patterson of Amersham Sainsbury's moved to Chesham - where the Woolwich is now.

This was an "old fashioned" Sainsbury, with counters each side of the shop where you where you were served by assistants. The shop had nice tiles on the floor and walls. There used to be a clock on the shop when it was Beckleys, there has been a call for a new clock to be put in Sycamore Road Multibroadcast TV rentals - opposite Woolworths - details supplied by Gill Bilski of Amersham Walton Clothing - ladies fashion, closed Peter Chilton remembers - "There was a ladies dress shop near where the present Wimpy Bar is owned by a Mrs Degenhardt but I cannot recall its trading name" - can anyone confirm the name?

Sycamore Road in Mr Browning had died a number of years before and I, Peter Chilton had moved on. Mr browning had taken on those premises in prior to which it was a handbag and leather goods shop owned by Mr Case. Mr Browning had previously had a smaller shop further down Sycamore Road opposite the Brownings hardware store.

The next door neighbour was Collins and Jervie owned at that time by a Mr Schofield. Next to that was a ladies outfitters called Alexanders. Nearby on our other side was a hardware shop owned by Mr Arthur Blood. In the late s he had an eye test with the then-incumbent partner, consulting optometrist, Mr Biglin. His recollection of this Sycamore Road shop was an evocative s time-warp, very unflashy.

Rumbeloes electrical where a book shop is now The Book Shop - taken over by a chain In the s, there was a children's clothes shop called Rascals Brandons furniture - where Cargo is now. The Regent cinema on the right was demolished in On the left are the Sycamore Trees which gave the road its name. At this time there were small shops and the original Free Church on the left and behind the white gate on the left the original St. In the s this site was redeveloped with new shops and flats above and a new St.

Used to also have branches in Chesham and Princess Risborough, now only in Aylesbury Adrian Partington now from Portsmouth remembers there was a Chinese Restaurant called ' Swans ' in the '70s, this changed it's name in the 80s to "Manns" Gateway Travel Agent. The s development in Sycamore Road taken in From the original photograph, we have been able to make out from left to right Gateway Travel, Rediffusion, the Chinese Restaurant, Challis ladies fashion , Bertram Allen menswear and Midland Bank.

Before the parade of shops was built, this part of Sycamore Road used to have - Hewitts the Jewelers moved to Woodside Road when the new shops were built - now Warners King - shoe maker Mr. A boy's haircut in - 45 was 9d that's 3. My parents also remember this shop and tell me it had a traditional red and white pole outside. This section of Sycamore Road also used to be where the original St.

Michaels rebuilt in the s and the original Free Church moved to Woodside Road in the s were situated. At Christmas, the church hall was used as a depot to deal with the excess Christmas post. This shop has also been Victoria Wine and a tea and coffee merchant. Hill Avenue in The post office is also clearly shown, as is if you look carefully the old Station Garage Building, now where the brick office block is opposite the station. Heavens news agents W Heavens toys - not sure if that is the same shop as the newsagent G W Chapaman "Radio House" radio and television Demi-Lune Cafe - used to be delicatessen on the ground floor Jennifer Harland, now from Eynsham, Oxford, writes "In when my husband Peter Harland, an ex-Sunday Times man, had established our company, Bookwatch, we were working from our house in Weedon Lane, Amersham.

By the time we had five screens of word processors in our dining room and a computer the size of a small chest of drawers and one delivery of stationery too many for space available we moved the office from our home to what was the just-vacated Demi Lune first floor cafe.

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The delicatessen had been on the ground floor. Here we developed the business of collecting data for the bestseller lists of top selling books for, initially, only The Sunday Times. We also published a weekly trade newsletter called Books in the Media, subscribed to by booksellers and libraries across the UK. This was written and produced and posted from the old Demi Lune premises and Friday nights would see our staff dashing back and forwards across Hill Avenue bearing boxes of mail to the post office trying to catch the last post.

At that time the post office would accept all our mailings, in later years we had to drive all the way to Hemel Hempstead to ensure sorting and delivery the next day. A feature of our early years in the Demi Lune was members of the public appearing at the top of the stairs, quite indignant to find us at work instead of a hoped-for source of coffee and Greek cakes. For some quirky reason the block housing the old Demi Lune had four No. So Peter had our address printed as '7up' and mail never got lost and this address 'Bookwatch, 7up Hill Avenue, Amersham' was known to all the major publishing houses and national newspaper literary editors, radio and television book and magazine programmes.

By further expansion necessitated a move to larger premises in Chesham but when I was last in Amersham, in August , I noticed the curtains I had made in were still hanging in there! We had many problems in the little alleyway. Coming between 'Annie's Bar' further up our side of Hill Avenue, and the Iron Horse this was a useful area at weekends when it was quiet for their respective customers to throw up, ditch broken glasses or indulge in a little fornication in the car park.

At 7up Hill Avenue we hugely appreciated our proximity to the station and easy access to London which enabled us and our staff to get to London for book launches or for visiting publishers. Those publishers who came out to Amersham invariably said how much they had enjoyed the increasingly beautiful journey on the underground out to Buckinghamshire, many had never been before, and how good the fresh air seemed after London.

Consequently, in the mid s it became the haunt of Amersham's Teddy Boys. The "Station Concession" was for many years run by Lillian Greaves Michelle, originally from Washington D C asks - was the little sweet shop next to the station at one time called Lucy's? This was originally Station Garage it had petrol pumps on Hill Avenue which were under a drive in roofed area. There used to be a taxi office next to the garage see below.

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After Station Garages closed, the building became Autofarm , a specialist garage dealing with Porsche cars. John Tooley, now from Delaware, U. John believes the shop sold all kinds of electrical bits and pieces. On the inside of the shop window was a piece or two of metal foil. When one touched or lent on the window it closed a circuit that powered a turntable sitting in the window that would then start to turn!

John also remembers that on Christmas day, his father would disappear for hours at a time. It turned out that he would do all the taxi work from Amersham Station. Many, many people told him that he saved their day. Permanent Sodexo Justice Careers Posted 20 days ago. Permanent Adecco Group Expires in 1 day. See more Administration jobs in Chalfont St. Giles See all Administration jobs. Retail Food Sampler - Beaconsfield Featured.

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Durham but we lived in Pinner from November After the war Uncle Dick Draffan had the grocery shop in Prestwood, later to be enlarged into a supermarket which I see is now a Co-op store.

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Consequently we spent many weekends at Hyde Heath or Little Chalfont. I remember the Doodle Bug so well. It had to have been on a Sunday and it was somewhere around mid morning. Auntie Elsie was in the kitchen, Mum and Dad were in the lounge and Uncle Jim had just gone to the loo!

He had always said that if there was one overhead he would be sure to be on the toilet. Seconds later we were under the Grand Piano. I seem to remember the crumping noise, but could that be imagination now? I know it had to be in the morning because afterwards Uncle Jim, Dad and myself made our way up the road to the Pub where I always had to sit outside with a lemonade. This time we were on our way back to Tile Cottage from the Pub looking forward to Sunday Roast, when the convoy came through. We got stuck on the Station side of the road for what must have been a good half hour, before we could cross the road to the steps that short cut up to the Lane.

I can only guess at 28 May, In later years my cousin June got married and had a house built where the lawn was. So that fateful day had to be 2nd July, Many thanks for helping make these memories come back. The report says 'Red Lodge and Bungalow part of the same property?

The Leys severely damaged.

Two other houses badly damaged. Admitted to Amersham Emergency Hospital 3 males 10 females 1 child. Other minor casualties, chiefly cuts from glass'. The report says '12 houses within a radius of yds badly damaged? This seems to have been on open ground as no damage was reported. I can confirm that a Doodle Bug did in fact land in Chestnut Lane. I was standing on a footpath opposite No. We both heard the noise of the Bug as it passed over The Meadows and saw it just before its engine stopped then saw it start to fall, at this Louis ran into his house and I ran to tell my Father and as I was going through our Back door there was a loud explosion.

My Father and I could see a plume of smoke, he then took hold of my hand and we went to the end of our garden and over the fence into his railway allotment, up the bank and over the railway and through a hole in the fence and then along the edge of the cricket ground down to, and over, Woodside Road up Mitchell Walk into Plantation road into New Road and then into Chestnut Lane. The first thing we saw was the side of one house which had been damaged and a couple standing by a cooker outside the house.

All they said to my Father was 'we've lost our Sunday Dinner'. We carried on until we saw the house or bungalow that had been virtually flattened, other houses were damaged but my Father said 'this is where it landed' ". Frank Phillipson has researched an incident that occurred in Little Chalfont. In the book "Raiders Overhead" by Stephen Flower about air raids on the Walton and Weybridge area of Surrey reference is made to a Halifax bomber being accidentally shot down by British anti- aircraft guns sited near Weybridge and Slough on 24th March The aircraft crashed at Lodge Farm, south-east of Little Chalfont the farm is south of the railway and east of Lodge Lane.

A database of bomber losses reveals the following details: The diversion was in support of the Main Force bomber operation against Berlin of aircraft. Halifax JD steered for an area west of Paris but, on the return leg to base, the aircraft strayed into the London Defence Zone and was shot down at Three injured members of crew were admitted to hospitals at Amersham and Watford suffering from sprains and shock: Further research reveals there was an unusually strong northerly wind which blew the Halifax over miles off course over the London Zone.

The pilot was praised for staying at the controls of his aircraft steering it away from "a village" and saving his crew. It appears the Halifax did not identify itself to the London Defence Zone, hence the error in shooting it down. Malcolm Flack from Amersham remembers "I recall seeing some sort of plane I have no idea what type etc. The exact location was after you go under the railway bridge in Lodge Lane from the Amersham-Rickmansworth Road and at the bend in the road after the dip, it was on the left just before Long Walk turning.

The next morning, I furiously cycled over there and sure enough there was the Lancaster with its wheels in mud up to the axles and missing the left wing-tip. The pilot had done an amazing job in landing it, but two oak trees at the edge of the field were a little closer together than the wing span. When I got there, the aircrew had already been picked up and the aircraft was being guarded by an RAF corporal. I found the left landing light some distance away and persuaded the corporal to let me have it. The reflector was crushed by the impact but the bulb with a filament that looked like a gate spring still worked and I kept it for many years.

Richard Martin writes - "I came across your website after doing a bit of searching to verify the story of a Lancaster crash landing at Amersham in World War II. The incident is detailed in the book 'Boys at War' by Russell Margerison who was an air gunner on the Lancaster PED which landed with wheels down after running out of fuel.

In the book, Russell Margerison writes: We had, in fact, touched down in a small field in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, where we had run parallel to the A Amersham to Watford Road, some thirty yards from the backs of the houses there, ploughed through a small hedge and crossed Stony Lane, climbed up a banking and passed through some small trees, Max having chosen the widest gap. Unfortunately the gap had not been wide enough to cope with the foot wingspan and consequently half of the port wing was left neatly wrapped around the largest of the trees. A pig pen had been demolished and a small hole had appeared in my turret.

But there, at Great House Farm, part of the Duke of Bedford's estate, PED stood proudly, having completed the last of her operations, still undefeated. She would now have to be dismantled and removed piecemeal. It crash landed in a field at Raans Farm and after school we went and saw it and by this time the Home Guard were there with the German airmen. David Hawley adds " I also remember the glider incident as myself, plus the Brackley brothers went to see it.

I remember the soldiers were not very happy, they did not know then how lucky they had been. I also witnessed from the top of Stanley Hill the recovery of the Glider by a Wellington aircraft from a hook line that had been erected. Further research undertaken by Frank Phillipson has revealed some interesting records about events in the Amersham area. Nigel Woof from Chalfont St. In one of these missions in July a captured V2 rocket was also apparently brought out.

I know of no accounts by local residents of the goings-on in Pollards Wood during the war, but presumably many suspected there was something 'hush-hush' happening there! Would be fascinating to know if anyone remembers.

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An interesting story concerns the creation of the Henry Allen Nursery School. In the early s, there became a need for the provision of nursery places for the pre-school age children of Amersham and the surrounding area. Many local women were employed in war work Amersham Prints in The Maltings, had been taken over to manufacture barrage balloons and The Cartwheel in London Road made radios.

In , before the bombing of Pearl Harbour which resulted in America entering the Second World War, Californian subscribers to the American Save the Children Federation provided the money required to build a Nursery as a way of aiding the British war effort without becoming involved militarily. In he traveled to Amersham to turn the first spadeful of earth that marked the beginnings of the Nursery.