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High Wycombe: Millbrook Combined School
As with many schools these days this one, in Mill End Road, has had a chequered history in terms of the age group that it has served, according to the prevailing dictats of both national and local government, and the changing demographics of the local population. Consequently it has had several names thus:
1936: Mill End Secondary School (11 to 16 year old children)
1973: Sands County Middle School (8 to 12 year old children)
1998: Sands Junior School (7 to 11 year old children)
1999: Millbrook Combined School (3 to 11 year old children)
It is interesting to compare the Ordnance Survey's current 1:10,000 scale map with its equivalent from 1938 showing the school as originally built. Although the basic pattern is still the same, with a few extensions added, evidently the school originally had a central segment, as long as this frontage, which has now been broken in two to create a central courtyard.
The whole building is topped by the attractive central clock tower which forms the School badge. As ever it is good to report that the clock was telling the right time. The School's website is here http://www.millbrook.bucks.sch.uk/default.asp
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 7 Nov 2009
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River Wye (Mill Brook) in Wycombe
Up until about the 1900s Wycombe used to have a couple of corn mills in this area, powered by water flowing along this leat, while the main river ran parallel and to the south. The mills are long gone but the word lives on in the road names. This is the leat approaching the Mill End Road bridge.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 7 Nov 2009
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Path to Desborough Recreation Ground
Leaving West Wycombe Road between the houses.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 20 Apr 2018
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West Wycombe Road
Mature residential properties line this very busy road, part of the A40.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 20 Apr 2018
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Desborough Park
The River Wye in Desborough Park
Image: © Shaun Ferguson
Taken: 25 Feb 2008
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A40 junction with Plomer Hill
Image: © Stuart Logan
Taken: 30 Jul 2014
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Chapel Express on the corner of Chapel Lane and Gilletts Lane
Image: © Steve Daniels
Taken: 21 Aug 2010
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Railway line heading towards Princes Risborough
Railway line heading towards Princes Risborough at Plomer Hill Bridge
Image: © Shaun Ferguson
Taken: 25 Feb 2008
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Ford at High Wycombe
This ford is found on the footpath beside the playground in a suburb of High Wycombe.
Image: © John Walton
Taken: 2 Jun 2013
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Chapel House,West Wycombe
Just looking like a church, apparently it always was a house. In the West Wycombe Park grounds, from about 1800, a grade II listed building in a grade I listed park.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 23 Nov 2017
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