Again you are very Welcome! I'm glad I can share them with people who actually appreciate them! My friends and family are not bothered by them!
It's so nice to hear about the shops etc too. I've never been personally (although planning a visit to Bucks soon) so it's nice to be able to picture it a bit better!!
Thank you for responding to my post. In fact, the postcard of High Wycombe High Street also is very memorable to me and I wish my father was still alive to see it.
You can just see the Red Lion which stands over the portico of The Red Lion Hotel down the street on the RHS. I have attended dinner dances there in my youth. I worked on the left hand side of the Street in the car sales showroom. Well, my office was at the rear of the showroom and I was secretary to the Sales Director. Well, I worked in Wycombe from about 1952 to 1956. We sold Roots Group cars, Hillman, Humber and Sunbeam Talbot and the commercial vehicles of that time, Commer.
I would be called a personal assistant in these modern times as I taxed and insured vehicles, invoiced customers and helped them with the hire purchase documentation and kept records of the engine, chassis and registration together with relevant new owner.
Everyone had to clock on with a time clock at the garage, but I flatly refused as I said often I worked later if we had a customer needing my services and I would then come in a bit later etc. This worked! We had to work 5.5 days per week and it was getting increasingly hard to get home on the bus early afternoon on the Saturdays. I was given a 5 day week but then they said they were going to reverse this, so I found another job. By then, I was married and after the 20 mins bus ride, I had 2 miles to cycle down narrow country lanes to Wooburn Common.
Well, I got to know the proprietors of all the Dealer Garages in Bucks and they made a real fuss of me when I married. Even one customer gave me Irish Linen Bedding for my wedding as I always did his road fund licences on his lorries in my lunch hour as a favour.
In fact, my granny was born in a little cottage in High Wycombe. Her family had lived in West Wycombe and the surrounding area for centuries. Well, they had been Romanies and of a pedigree status too, being Bucklands.
Lovely to chat and I hope you do not object to the ramblings of an elderly lady! Ann
