1970s High Wycombe | 1970s England | Driving through high Wycombe | A town called... | 1975

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Filmed by the team from 'A Town Called..' specially shot material of the Buckinghamshire town of High Wycombe
First shown: 09/07/1975
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Quote: VT11247

[@letmelooktv]

I remember walking down that mall corridor as a child around that time. The was a musical instrument shop to the right called percy prior. and at the end of the walk way the was a place called richards shops and just behind the was a department store called murrays that had a cafe. The was a toy and model shop in the right hand row of shops Lots of Airfix and mechano kits.

[@miracledoge]

I bought lots of musical kit in Percy prior’s over the years, a treasure trove of a shop

[@letmelooktv]

@@miracledoge pretty sure its where i got my first classical guitar from. It was there or rose-hill in Beaconsfield so long ago lol.

[@alexfletcher5192]

I was born in the Shrubbery, on Amersham Hill, in 1973 and spent my formative years there till 1983. My dad was an Senior admin at Wycombe District Council before his death in 1980. It's still a really good place to have cars with functioning fucking brakes.

[@big.salt.official]

i was also born in the shrubbery in 1970, i think the model shop was called Keens ?

[@miracledoge]

I was born at the Shrubbery as well but in 1971. My Dad was a GP, he helped to deliver a lot of babies there through the 70s and 80s until it was closed down.

[@FLIPMODE630]

I loved Wycombe in the 70s plenty of decent work everyone knew each other in their neighbourhoods , plenty of decent pubs just a simpler world overall I guess . I can’t bare it now so I moved out.

[@zagozago9893]

My grandparents moved there that year. Lived in Everest Close. I remember The Octagon Shopping Centre.

[@aflutteroffeminineconfusio1986]

Caught me off guard there for a minute lol...I'm in Perth WA...I've been to Freo( Fremantle) here many times and my sister used to live in High Wycombe here..

[@nickjames4497]

Remember the punk gathering outside Boots Chemist in the Octagon drinking cider…

[@garryleeks4848]

Look at all the old cars

[@civlyzed]

One of the reasons I love watching these old videos is for the old cars. I just watched a video from San Francisco in 1960, lots of cool cars. Cheers!

[@fidelcatsro6948]

can you identify the white car in front of the mini at 25secs?

[@1975ukandbored]

Datsun maybe

[@MikeStarKaraokeUK]

I see they put old pictures of Wycombe in the Eden centre. Has the old cinema on and the Octagon how it used to look inside with tile floors and posh shops. Also Frogmore had a Tesco store and a Cinema

[@UKJingles]

It's a pity Network doesn't release the half a dozen 25 minute documentaries that were made back in the mid 1970's,
All were presented by Monty Modlyn and always followed the Today News program weekly on Thames.......

[@lodgecav490]

How tall was the person holding the camera?😊

[@garryleeks4848]

Gordon bennet he’s a giant

[@fidelcatsro6948]

he was using a drone ... it was petrol driven back then

[@keithwallington4966]

One of my uncles carved that lion back in the day

[@perfmr2]

Simpler times, better times.

[@dackesjulag]

And a lot cleaner..

[@fidelcatsro6948]

0:26 can anyone identify the sporty looking white car in front of the mini??

[@robinvanags912]

Looks like a Ginetta G15.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

@@robinvanags912 thank you i will look up that name model

[@NotTelling-dv3et]

Those were the days when Britain was full of British decency. Now look at it, destroyed without us having a say in it

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

And not a mechanical digger in sight.

[@shoom5198]

I can't believe what they did to this country, it used to be so much more welcoming and British.

[@jackiecampbell7903]

What do you mean?

[@harrisonmckenzie4905]

What you talking about? Unchecked mass immigration and multiculturalism has enriched our lives for the better; right?

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Its the result of British Imperialism in other countries of your forefathers..so bear with it

[@fidelcatsro6948]

@NOWHERE PEOPLE it is!! it just come with some disadvantages..nothing is a bed of roses!
🐱👍🏿

[@jackiehenry2825]

You didn't say that when the British went into other countries and took over and stole everything

[@IanPayne]

Wycombe looks a lot better now

[@jasonuk8333]

@Jack Warner Rose-tinted spectacles can be very powerful. I recall Wycombe in the 70's. It wasn't great. That shopping centre was grey and grimy, with the stink of exhaust fumes as you got nearer the bus station at the far end from the High Street. People whine about Eden but all that did was replace a car park, and some not particularly attractive crumbling buildings. Some things were better. Lots of smaller independent shops as opposed to the monotonous chain stores, but that's a problem with any similar-size town these days.