The High Wycombe Society fully supports the recently launched Bucks Free Press campaign to save the Red Lion statue in the High Street and is asking its members and supporters, please, to sign the online petition to be found here. The distinctive feature of the lion on its portico in the High Street used to mark the location of the Red Lion Hotel formerly the Red Lion Inn, one of the earliest … [Read more...]
Get Your Tickets Now!
The High Wycombe Society Quiz Night will take place on Friday 15th April at Wrights Meadow Centre at 7.30 p.m. Tickets are on sale NOW at £12 per person including a fish and chip supper and can be obtained from Wrights Meadow Centre or by contacting our Programme and Membership group. Drinks can be bought at the bar on the night. Individuals and pre-formed teams of up to six players are … [Read more...]
2016 Events
The Outline Programme of our Society Events for 2016 has just been published and can be accessed here. As well as our popular Open Days at Pann Mill, it includes a talk in January on the history of local railways by John Gurney. Why not join us on 22nd January at the Riverside? … [Read more...]
Civic Voice Award
The High Wycombe Society was delighted to pick up an award at the recent Civic Voice Annual Convention in Bristol. Pictured here, receiving the award on behalf of the Society from the Mayor of Bristol Civic Society who hosted the Civic Voice event, are Tony and Sheila Fooks. Tony chairs the national forum of regional civic societies within Civic Voice and is an executive committee member of … [Read more...]
Pioneering Again
In November 2015 our Chairman, Jackie Kay, gave a talk to a select audience on the subject of 'Wycombe Pioneers of Progress' (- those individuals honoured in 1911 in a stained glass window at High Wycombe Town Hall for their contribution towards the development of the town). Work is in progress to develop a video version sometime in 2016. … [Read more...]
The ‘Big 50’ Picnic
Sunday 9th August 2015 is a date which will be remembered for a while within the High Wycombe Society. On that day we held a Big Picnic on The Rye, and invited the people of High Wycombe to join us in celebrating the achievements of the Rye Protection Society back in 1965. For younger participants the star of the show was The Monty Fool pictured here in costume. He towered above everyone … [Read more...]
Charity Past and Present
At the Clare Charity Day on Saturday 11th July, the High Wycombe Society was pleased to be invited to provide guided tours of the Clare Charity Centre building. Although the Centre is in Saunderton, not High Wycombe, so not quite on our usual patch, the site played a significant role in the history of High Wycombe as it was the location of the Wycombe Union Workhouse. Very little remains of the … [Read more...]
Civic Day
On Civic Day - Saturday 20th June - at our "Meet the High Wycombe Society" event at the Riverside (formerly the Royal British Legion) in St Mary Street. there was an opportunity to see most of our recent "Celebrating the Rye" exhibition in a compact form. Members of the Society representing different aspects of our work were also on hand to discuss topics covered by other displays over tea, … [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...]
Collaborative Planning
The Spring meeting of ANTAS - the Association of North Thames Amenity Societies which brings together our own Society with 20 other sister societies in Bucks, Herts and Oxford, took place in Potters Bar on 25th April. A delegation from our Society heard speaker, Charles Campion, talk about "Collaborative Planning" a process which aims to get whole communities actively participating in planning … [Read more...]