Tag: high street

• Saved by the Crash!

  

  Just how did the Wall Street Crash of 1929 save a tiny Chilterns village?

  Mary Tebje

  5th August 2019

  Buckinghamshire, Chiltern Hills, Travel in England, Visit England

  A Year in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, Chilterns AONB, chilterns village, chilterns walks, Coaching inns, Countryside, Days out, Days out from London, English countryside, English heritage, English village, film locations, high street, high Wycombe, history, Medieval houses, national trust, sense of place, Sir Francis Dashwood, The Chilterns, The Importance of Being Ernest, Travel, travel and leisure, Travel and Tourism, Travel blogging, travel guide, travel photography, travel to england, West Wycombe, West Wycombe Village

• A is for Amersham

  

  All around are signs of past lives; graves in the shape of wool sacks, an 18th water pump (although ale was preferable), window openings at unhelpful heights and a red lion above a lintel where a pub used to be.

  Mary Tebje

  16th April 2019

  Chiltern Hills

  almshouses, amersham, Amersham martyrs, amersham musuem, Amersham society, chalk stream, Chiltern Hills, chilterns, chilterns cycling, Chilterns history, chilterns walks, English countryside, english history, heritage, high street, HS2, industrial heritage, London, market town, medieval tiles, Met line, metropolitan railway, Rural, rural tourism, sense of place, slow travel, The Chilterns, the lollards, Travel, Travel and Tourism, Travel blogging, travel guide, travel in England, travel photography, travel to england, travel to the chilterns, Tube, Weller brewery