Prestwood People
Prestwood People
This page contains several image galleries from the period 1920 to 1940. These cover things like the Rance family, the Hildreth family, sport, events and Schools in Prestwood.
At the bottom of the page is a further link to articles. These contain written notes from villagers who lived in Prestwood during this period.
Sport
Description
Images of the Prestwood cricket and Football teams 1940-1960.
Prestwood Cricket Club 1954
Prestwood Cricket Club 1952
Prestwood Cricket Club 1959
Prestwood Cricket Club 1952
Prestwood Cricket Team 1947
Back Row; Harold Hildreth, Trevor Bignell, Jack Taylor, Joe Brown, Len Snell, Brian Wright, Reg Evans, Front Row; Don Brackley, Henry Taylor, Bill Dell, Jim Arman, Reg Clark, Harold Brackley.
Prestwood People
Description
General selection of images of people that lived and worked in Prestwood during the period 1940 – 1960
Clement Atlee
Prestwood Girl Guides 1940
Viking Long Boat in transit
Prestwood Home Guard
1952 Reunion
Comments from the former Prestwood Archive website
Deborah Burke says:
September 4, 2016 at 11:29 am
Having just revisited Prestwood I then found your archive pages and found photos of my father. He was D.Drewett head of the school firstly in Moat Lane then when it became the junior school moving to Clare Road,we lived in the High Street from 1961 until 1971,my father remarried after my mothers death,but was the head until 1985? . I enjoyed my visit seeing how the village has change and see your old photos thank you. Good luck with the archive.
Mrs Peta Hadfield says:
May 5, 2023 at 9:07 am
Deborah,your dad was my headmaster and I thought he was wonderful. I must have started at Moat lane in 1961 and spent my last year at the Clare Road school, happy memories, regards Peta Hadfield (nee Gurney)
Deborah Burke says:
August 6, 2025 at 9:17 pm
Hi Peta loved to see your note,yes we moved to Prestwood in 1961, from his previous school in Bledlow Ridge. I started at Wycombe high school that year.
Are you related to the family who had a greengrocers?
Another coincidence in Canada we met a couple who live to Nicky Ledger,son of the school secretary! They lived in Chesham went to school with the Ledgers,all now in Yorkshire.
Small world.
MarinaKeljacki says:
September 12, 2016 at 3:31 pm
For your info, On the Girl Guides photo, between Joan Powell and Kathrine Ridgely, is my my mum Joan Keljacki nee Cumminings
Regards Marina Keljacki.
Pamela Farley-Pettman says:
January 1, 2019 at 2:48 pm
My mum is also in the Girl Guides photo (Margaret Peedle). She would have loved to have seen thus photo, but sadly died in 2004. However, my daughter, her granddaughter, runs a Guide unit and was delighted to see it.
Graham Payne says:
June 11, 2017 at 1:41 pm
Marina non that is a name from the past Graham Payne
Mrs Peta Hadfield says:
May 5, 2023 at 9:00 am
Graham Payne, I remember you and Marina, you lived at the bottom of Grymes Dyke I lived at 26 then you moved to Amersham. Happy memories of Prestwood
Pamela Farley-Pettman says:
November 11, 2018 at 5:02 pm
My Mum, Margaret Peedle, who died in 2004, would have been delighted to see herself in the Girl Guides photo. Thank you for sharing it.
Ian Forbes says:
July 29, 2020 at 7:02 pm
I have this Guide photo in one of my mother’s photo albums. She was Joan Powell and died in 2016. On the back it says ‘July 29th 1942; 1st Prestwood Girl Guide Company’. That was also my mother’s 12th birthday.