Can you contribute to our Newsletter?
The Winter 2023 issue is another 16 page bumper edition and is now available online. Let us know what you think of it. Click on the newspaper to access the Newsletter.
This edition includes:
- Some notes about the Society’s Patron, Lord Carrington, the Lord Great Chamberlain;
- An item about the pre-war problems of unemployment in High Wycombe;
- An obituary for Roger Lawson;
- Notes on the research by the High Wycombe and District Model Railway Society into the early railway into the town;
- Updates to “Project Riverside”;
- And much more;
- Together with the ever popular Planning Matters which this time are Planning Laments, some thoughts from our Chairman, Letters to the Editor and Items for Your Diary.
We are always looking for contributions to the Newsletter. We need articles, for example, from people who remember Wycombe in its earlier days, or with a novel angle on local matters. We like letters with outspoken comment, which we welcome from anybody. And we particularly like to receive drawings and cartoons. Contributions or questions can be sent by e-mail or by post to the Editor (see below).
The next issue will be the Spring 2024 one so we would welcome any appropriate items or comments.
The High Wycombe Society Newsletter is published four times a year and is usually 12 pages long. It is issued free to members.
Our deadlines for contributions are the 20th of February, May, August and November, and the Newsletter is distributed by our volunteer postmen the following month.
The Newsletter covers the work of all the Society’s groups, the quarterly meetings and other events. Letters to the Editor may also be published.
Contributions may be sent to our Newsletter Editor, Jackie Kay, preferably by email to newslettereditor@highwycombesociety.org.uk or by post to 19 Hepplewhite Close, High Wycombe, HP13 6BZ, telephone (01494) 534876. (Please copy and paste the email address into your email program as this avoids spam.)
Old Newsletters
The Society’s Newsletter Archive contains all the newsletters published since Autumn 1998 that were prepared electronically. They can be accessed on the Newsletter Archive page.
Very Old Newsletters
The Society started issuing Newsletters way back in 1969 but back then they were simple duplicated sheets prepared by typewriter and duplicator (remember them?). We have scanned these and converted them to a digital format and they now appear on the Very Old Newsletters page. Some of the scanned documents have been processed by optical character recognition (OCR) so that they can be searched, but many are still just images and will be processed as time goes by. They can still be downloaded, read or printed. This will not be a quick job but nevertheless we will persevere and the searchable archive will expand slowly. There are some interesting items in these old Newsletters and many of the concerns mentioned then are still around today. Please enjoy them, and feel free to send comments to the present Editor or even comment on Facebook.