These films have been made available online with kind permission of High Wycombe Society, who rescued the films. We have been able to make connections with relatives of a number of individuals involved in High Wycombe Film Society, who have given permission for films to be shared in this way. We would be interested to hear from others who may also have a claim in the copyright for this material, please get in touch with WFSA via email enquiries.wfsa@hants.gov.uk
credits: High Wycombe Film Society
production: High Wycombe Film Society
casts:
keywords: Local news, newsreel, refurbishment, construction, demolished, opening, unveiling, celebration, procession, parade, fete, shopping street, Christmas, on screen diversity
genre: Local news, amateur
location: Buckinghamshire
contentdescription_primary_Content_Description:
Newsreel documenting key events in High Wycombe throughout the year:
Tree full of shoes in snowy countryside
The old post office in Easton Street boarded up
Abbey National and Barclays on the High Street
Traffic warden at work
Park (Hughenden?) with daffodils
Children’s gallery at Castle Hill house for wartime event, town hall piped bands and procession (past Red Lion house to let)
Maypole dancing (on the Rye?)
Royal British Legion parade
Castle Hill House outdoor event with food made from wartime recipes
One woman band on bicycle
Beacon lit
WWII exhibition at Wycombe Museum including wartime weddings, Wycombe plane factories, Italian and German prisoners of war, and Bomber Command
Plaques for Dame Frances Dove, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary at Shelley Cottage, TS Eliot in Marlow, and Amy Johnson in Princes Risborough
West Wycombe Park with crowds of people, galleon on the lake, and period naval clothes
Street entertainment, including juggling and parade
Holywell Mead swimming pool
Boat house café
Burma Star war memorial ceremony
Wycombe Summit ski & snowboard centre
Mini funfair outside All Saints church
Christmas lights
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