On 5th August 2018, over 150 mainly local people, mostly (but not all) drawn from the membership of the High Wycombe Society, came to Wycombe Abbey for an event to celebrate the Society's Golden Anniversary. Attendees were offered welcoming pre-lunch drinks in the Fisher library, a room named in honour of Miss Fisher, whose portrait hangs there. She was the headmistress of Wycombe Abbey at the … [Read more...]
Privacy Policy
The Society's Privacy Policy under GDPR is now available on this site and can be found here. … [Read more...]
Join us in 2018
The Winter Newsletter has now been delivered to Society Members. It's a bumper 16-page edition, and with it members should have received their Programme Cards with brief details of the year ahead. Most of our events are open to the general public, so if you already have your 2018 diaries you may wish to make a note of the dates now. It's a special year for the High Wycombe Society which was … [Read more...]
Celebrating the Rye
The first of three special 2015 Rye-related events has its Offical Opening on the morning of Wednesday 3rd June. Join us at an Exhibition entitled "Celebrating the Rye" which depicts the Rye in words and historic photographs. It has been compiled by a small team of High Wycombe Society members led by Mary Woodman, and will be open daily from 2nd-13th June only. 50 years ago this precious … [Read more...]
Civic Voice Convention 24th-25th October 2014
The Annual Civic Voice Convention got off to a strong start when Gryff Rhys Jones, President of Civic Voice presented its Civic Manifesto 2015-2020, entitled "Localism for Real". The manifesto calls on the next Government : to make improving the quality of the public realm a priority; to give all citizens opportunities to shape the future of their place; and to give local communities the powers … [Read more...]