Gransnet forums

Meet ups/where are you?

Gransnetters in High Wycombe Bucks?

(15 Posts)
Joan Tue 03-Dec-13 21:07:34

I was thinking of the Cotswolds. Grummy. Mind you, all this is about 50 years ago!!

Grummy Tue 03-Dec-13 14:21:35

Charleygirl, I have never been to the train station, presume it should cater for everyone though. Alas, Joan, pretty is not a word I would use for High Wycombe, I can think of a few other words though.

Joan Sun 01-Dec-13 02:00:52

28 miles. Never been to Milton Keynes. I did like High Wycombe though.

angiebaby Fri 29-Nov-13 18:54:43

hi there,,,,how far is hw from milton keynes,,,,,,,

Joan Sat 23-Nov-13 23:08:32

Oh, and my sister went to school not far from there - Chorleywood College. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_College_Worcester

It was a posh boarding school for blind and partially sighted girls: my sister got a full scholarship but she hated it, apart from the fact they got to go horse riding. She used to visit Robin's family, and once they gave her a violin, which she still owns.

She left after her O levels to go to my old Grammar school, Heckmondwike, for her A levels, which was very innovative back then in the mid 60s, for a totally blind schoolkid to go to a sighted school.

Funny how the mention of one place can bring back so many old memories.

Joan Wed 20-Nov-13 22:45:44

I used to have a boyfriend in High Wycombe. Well, he was a teenage lad and we were friends back in 1963 when I was 18. We met on a YHA holiday in Carinthia, and one day he said to me "You have beautiful big brown eyes - just like a Jersey cow". Luckily I have a sense of humour and laughed my head off. He insisted it was a compliment, and one day after the holiday he came to Yorkshire and drove me down to the Cotswolds to show me - a Jersey cow!! (They do have lovely eyes)

We lost touch, as you do at that age when you live a long way away.

Robin Gee, where are you now? Probably a Granddad of many - he was a twin if I remember rightly.

I did love the area - very pretty, but very different from Yorkshire, which has a different kind of beauty. There was a big protest going on at the time - there was an arboretum with trees of so many different kinds and a developer was going to cut them down. I don't remember the outcome.

Charleygirl Wed 20-Nov-13 22:23:09

Is the train station close to the town? Are there loads of stairs at the station or is there a lift? I ask because I have mobility problems.

fabnan Wed 20-Nov-13 22:21:07

There must be more of us !

Pentillie Wed 20-Nov-13 21:36:22

I'm in Marlow, all but next door!

Grummy Wed 20-Nov-13 19:16:19

Have been without the net for a while, frustrating! Glad to see some High Wycombers building up, any more for a possible meet up?

Versavisa Wed 13-Nov-13 20:15:46

I can get to HW too! Count me in please.

Grummy Sat 02-Nov-13 12:10:55

Three of us so far, keep going!

fabnan Thu 31-Oct-13 01:18:41

I live near high wycombe!

GrannyHaggis Wed 30-Oct-13 18:16:55

I don't live in High Wycombe but my daughter,son-in-law and grandson do! Maybe we could arrange a meet sometime when I'm called upon to do 'Granny Duty'!

Grummy Sun 27-Oct-13 04:05:36

High Wycombe is ominously absent from communications on Gransnet! But I am sure there are a number of gransnetters in this area who, like me, would like to make meet and make new friends. Come on, High Wycombe grans and gramps, let's get to know each other! grin