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Wellington Road, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP12 3PR

This DTC, called Trenchard House, in Wellington Road only takes practical driving tests. Theory tests are held in Aylesbury, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Reading or Slough nearby. Update: this DTC ceased holding driving tests after Friday 12th March 2021.

Situated in Wellington Road off Lancaster Road, this DTC replaced the DTC in Baker Street off Desborough Avenue in the mid-2000s. Parking area for vehicles can be seen in front of the DTC. Its postcode is HP12 3PS. Update: this DTC ceased holding driving tests after Friday 12th March 2021.

Showroom and shop belonging to Evans of High Wycombe, a furniture company. They also have a factory a bit further along the road. High Wycombe has a long history as a centre of the furniture making trade.

The vaguely mystical name for this warehouse on the Cressex Industrial Estate. To Let at the time of this picture.

A couple of bunches of Mistletoe outside a unit on the Cressex Business Park.

A shortcut between the business estate on Lincoln Road and residential streets to the east.

These six small industrial units were probably the earliest buildings on the Cressex Industrial Estate, now the Cressex Business Park. The 1938 Edition of the large scale Ordnance Survey map does not show them but the 1960 version certainly does, dating them probably to the 1950s. The cones in the centre of the road were demarcating temporary one-way traffic workings while an underground service was being laid, as evidenced by the new trench scar in the foreground, when the photograph was taken.

Furniture makers since 1958, as it says on the front. Their showroom is a short way down the road. High Wycombe has long been associated with the furniture trade, a traditional Chiltern industry.

The hilly ground south of High Wycombe was criss-crossed with several public footpaths long before the houses, schools and factories arrived. However when they were built the old footpath routes were kept and this is one running between Marlow Road and Shelley Road, at the start of the long straight section just down from Marlow Road.

This photo shows a notice propped against the back of the new practical driving test centre at Cliveden Office Village in Lancaster Road. It has the following wording: DVSA PARKING FOR CUSTOMERS ON TEST ONLY PLEASE DO NOT PARK ANYWHERE ELSE ON SITE NO PRACTICING AT ANY TIME This is where candidates have to park their cars for their driving tests. Update: this driving test centre closed on Friday 29th April 2022.