1970s High Wycombe | What do you think of High Wycombe | Have your say | A town called..| 1975
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Thames TV Presenter Monty Modlyn pays a visit to the Buckinghamshire town of High Wycombe and asks the local residents what they think of the town.
First shown: 09/07/1975
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It is heart warming to see nice people of the past.
Very good to the old people...The best recommendation for it. Good on them 😊
And imagine many of those older people would of remembered and served in WW2. The women would of been land army girls or working in the factories building tanks, guns and ammunition and the men would of been conscripted into the army too fight. My grandad was one. he served in North Africa under Monty. I asked him what was Monty like, and he’d just like you imagine a old school soldier of the empire general to be like. Well spoken, strict but fair with his men, who didn’t suffer fools lightly. My grandad was in a logistics role which meant going out in the desert on a converted Willis jeep with supplies and ammunition for the tanks and men on the front line. Which also meant they were a massive target for any Lufftwaffe flying overhead. He told me they got strafed a couple of times by ME109s and that wasn’t machine guns they were 50 calibre cannons. If one had hit a bomb they were carrying or a direct hit on you, one would rip you in half or blow the bombs up along with you and the jeep. He was only 21 years old at the time. But he survived the war, and they beat Rommel in North Africa sent em packing, although he took his hat off too the German soldiers who he said were extremely well disciplined, well motivated, brilliant soldiers and tank crews.
I grew up there in the 70s & 80s, it was a great place to be a kid! That third guy in was called Harry. He worked at the train station and was my dads mate! Occassionally i'd get a doll or toy that some kid had left on the train! 😎😋😘
I also grew up in Wycombe in the 70's & 80's and I agree that it was a great place to have spent my youth. In my adult life I enjoy mountain biking through the Chiltern hills & surrounding countryside 😉
High Wycombe was a typical London overspill town following the war there was a massive baby boom, I know I was one of those babies. My mum, dad, brother and sister we lived in a 2 bed Victorian terrace house that was bloody freezing in the winter, then the council offered my parents a brand new 3 bed council house in Redditch which is a Birmingham overspill town, which had warm air heating all over the house. My mum said she can remember getting up in the morning even when it was snowing and bitter cold outside and the house would be lovely and warm, thanks to warm air heating system. She said I felt like I’d won the lottery, although moving out of Birmingham too Redditch she felt like they were moved out of the city into the countryside into the sticks, which she was, because unlike today, people didn’t travel as far back then. Now a drive into Birmingham seems nothing, but back in the 1970s it felt like it was miles away. My mum said she had too make new friends, but all the other mums at the school gates were in the same situation. They’d been moved out of places like Birmingham into new council house from different parts of Birmingham so they all had too make new friends as well.
I believe that’s happening now. Moving families out to areas where there is more housing.
Grew up in Wycombe. Racial tension, Kevs everywhere, but nice countryside if you have a car. I was in an indie band as a youngster in the early nineties. Great times. Good pubs. A train to London. Magic mushrooms growing on Bledlow Ridge cricket pitch. LSD. Wycombe High School girls..
How times changed, the first woman saying when she came from London people there didn't seem so nice...other way around now lol
In the sixties and seventies, before the malls, we had every kind of shop in the High St and close by. Co-op, Liptons, David Greig, Fine Fare, Mac Fisheries, Lyons Tea Shop, Aldridges, superb butcher and baker. It was a joy to go food shopping, all gone long ago.
That’s a shame
What about Murrays, you could stop for tea and bun!?Also, there must have been at least 10 pubs in town and four places where you could sit down and enjoy cod, chips and a cup of splosh... these days folk are eating their doner kebabs 'on the hoof'
High Wycombe is my home town. It could be alot worse. It could be Slough or Aylesbury 😉
Slough and Aylesbury quite run down these days.
Oh god Slough is a horrible town. It’s like the arse end of the world, yeh give me High Wycombe over Slough any time.
@carruthers100 name a "good" part of Slough. I'm waiting.... take your time
Slough is like a concrete jungle so plain and all grey and horrible. The Bus station is manky Jesus Christ what happened to that.
@@MikeStarKaraokeUK They have a new open plan bus "stand" like High Wycombe now. Let's the "fresh" air remove any "mankyness"
1.29 Dr Gupta . What do you like about High Wycombe ? " Plenty bad tree" ?????
I think that is 'plenty of factories'
At first, I wasn't a fan of these "indoor shopping precincts".
In my part of Australia, and now perhaps your part of the world too, where the temperature can reach over 35 degrees (C) in the middle of Summer, the elderly and infirm.. Occasionally the odd husband sitting around, waiting.. use these places for a nice afternoon nap (-well, they have the best air conditioning available here, anyway -).
Unfortunately that shopping centre didn't have air conditioning then or now
As a school kid, I used to go to the cafe on the top floor of Murrays. Where I met Marianne who was my first "sensual" encounter. Happy days.
I used to get my string from Percy Pryor, in The Octagon.
Upstairs in the Octagon? Used to love browsing there with my kids. What a loss to the town that was.
@@davinathorne5215 Yes. Upstairs, not far from the High Street entrance.
Ouch when he is saying that shopping centre opened only 5 years ago (from filming) it looks filthy like it's been there decades and not ever repainted....look at the stated of that where he is leaning on and then the flooring lol
I used to study in high Wycombe in the90s
Sorry to hear that
So did I sadly, on my first day I saw a message above the toilet roll in the gents which read "Bucks College Degree Certificate, pull to take one."
all very kind to him until they get told they are all racist.
no one mentioned the roundabouts...lol
Or the steep hills in front of the university
@@ABB-bw6tc or the crime and the homeless in town
Or the influx of a certain type of 'Londoner' whom are always inexplicably ignorant and lack consideration of others...
No roundabouts, university or homeless in the 70's, we did have the steep hills though!
You're thinking of Milton Keynes bro
St. Vincent vs High Wycombe 🤔
Well my Grandad wouldn't have exactly been able to go back home (1970). So anything reminiscent of SVG eg. sunshine would have been compared.
He dislikes high Wycombe due to the cold.... i’m guessing that’s not a local weather system.
Lol. I guess not. Love these kinds of videos though. A great look at the not so distant past ☺️
Maybe he later decided going back home to Africa was the only solution for him.
@@EgoShredder He was from Jamaica
@@EgoShredder He did'nt come from Africa, his prior home was in St Vincent but you grabbed onto the first available thought for your mind set.
@@suegreenbar High Wycombe did have the largest concentration of Vincention outside St Vincent
High Wycombe these days is more like Detroit (U.S.) They ought to rename it Detroit Wycombe.
It’s a dump.
Totally agree with you
Davina where do you live and do you live in a flat or a house or a chalet?
@@-Anon-YmousCastlefield... Spearing road or Micklefield(single mom city) lol
@@jokesonyou1373 not really. Same as any other town good and bad everywhere. Mostly good in Wycombe.
Nowadays, yes. It was nice years ago.
Yes, isse noice
My wife is from High Wycombe...she wouldn't live there now...concrete jungle
tbf though, everywhere in england thats affordable is going that way.
@@kass9722 That's depressing and suffocating
@@kass9722 This will only continue to become worse, especially with the move towards mega city high rise pod living as part of United Nations Agenda 2030 plan, part of the Agenda for the 21st Century.
No it isn't... I live there now; we can see almost right into the middle of the tiny town centre from our front window, and from the back, we've got the most beautiful view of rolling hills and countryside...
@@SloppySalad high wycombe is a dive just because you got a fantastic view from your gaff doesn’t mean you’re sitting in a chalet in santorini
Wycombe used to be nice with a bit of luck now Russia will strike at some point
That ship has sailed mate. USAAF Headquarters was at RAF Daws Hill during the Cold War.
@@zagozago9893 yeahhh true remember when the ski slope was there 😂
I like low wickome but not high wickome no head for heights