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Woodfield Road, PRINCES RISBOROUGH, HP27 0HU

The town viewed from the Brush Hill Nature Reserve at the top of Kop Hill

See Image for details. This is the care home under construction, viewed from outside the site gates. The notice board outside the site states "A Housing Solutions development of a 90 room care home for older people built in Partnership with Buckinghamshire County Council and The Fermantle (sic) Trust." It is to be hoped that the building work is better than the spelling! The Fremantle (for it is they) Trust http://www.fremantletrust.co.uk/cgi-bin/cp-app.cgi?usr=51F248515&rnd=6030878&rrc=N&affl=&cip=&act=&aff= is a not-for-profit provider of high quality care and support services, currently employing about 1,500 people.

The School, which is shown on all the current OS maps, has been razed to the ground, and a 90 room care home for older people is under construction on the site. At first I thought this was an illustration of changing population demographics with fewer school children and more elderly people being needed to be provided for, but looking at Buckinghamshire Local Education Authority's formal closure notice for the School it appears that the purpose was to provide a new 360 place infants' school in the grounds of the local junior school, Icknield Junior, in Wellington Avenue, in line with the County Council's policy of amalgamating infant and junior schools where possible because it means fewer changes and more stability for children. From the closure notice it appears that the intention was to close the school with effect from 31 December 2001.

This post-war housing estate has some pleasant open spaces of which this one appears to be the largest.

This photo shows the BT notice dated 13th August 2020 referring to the removal of this telephone kiosk in New Road. It has the following wording: We're thinking about removing this payphone Our research shows that this payphone just isn't used enough for us to carry on running it. Because of this, we think we should remove it. Do you have any comments or feedback? If so, please contact your local authority within 42 days of the above date ie 24th September 2020. If you'd like to know where the next nearest payphone is, or who your local authority is, please call 0800 661 610 and choose option 1. This BT notice is inside the BT kiosk which was photographed in January 2017 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5277080 refers. Since then the payphone has been removed and it is only a matter of time before this kiosk is removed, as has happened in the last few years to other kiosks in the Princes Risborough area.

Princes Risborough fire station, New Street, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, complete with scaffolding