Peggy Sale talks about old Aylesbury, May 3rd 2002

In this interview Peggy tells us about the Walton landmine explosion of 1940, her time at the Royal Bucks Hospital, a grizzly event in Turnfurlong and other memories of old times in Aylesbury.
www.aylesburyremembered.com/

[@barefootdee1]

My Mum lived in Albion Street, just near the canal, and she remembered hearing the explosion

[@PeterSmith-by2cy]

The Walton pond bomb was just a fortnight before I was born. I can confirm there was another big explosion in Lea Road, Southcourt the following autumn: it blew in windows in Beech Green where I lived.

[@davidterry4083]

David Terry. I was born at 17 Highbridge Road which can be glimpsed in the view of Princes Road as it was before the newer house was built on the corner of Highbridge Road and Princes Road. My great grandfather is said to have built these houses about 1908 - he was a bricklayer. I was also told that he was involved in the building of the tall brick chimney at the Nestle milk factory. I note that Peggy Sale was a nurse at Stoke Mandeville and the Royal Bucks Hospitals and she may have nursed me when I was a scarlet fever patient at SM about 1940 and had my tonsils removed at the RB about 1942.I spent the war years at 17 Highbridge Road and stayed there from 1946 to 1948 with my grandmother so that I could take up the offer of a place at that Grammar School.I was interested in Bill Hinton's stories as he mentioned the name Bernard Lowe who I vaguely remember fron the war years. Also my mother worked for Andrews, the baker in Oxford Road,whose daughter married Bill. I now live in Bristol but was back in Aylesbury twice in 2019 to find the gravestone of my grandparents in the cemetery. I hope to return one day and would be glad to meet the presenter of these two videos.

[@AylesburyRemembered]

That's very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@alanmackenzie6909]

The large house on the left with a white surround to the front door was a childrens' home in 50's/60's. And I remember when I once visited a school chum there, the lady warden had two very large dogs - that was for protection though I didn't know that at the time.

[@alanmackenzie6909]

I had a small operation in the Royal Bucks, just in for a couple of days, 1957 I think.

[@AylesburyRemembered]

I was born there :)

[@alanmackenzie6909]

@@AylesburyRemembered Well, you were in good hands;}
Where did you live in Aylesbury?

[@patrickj8984]

@@AylesburyRemembered
me too,1969.....

[@marvinnappermarvo]

I was born in the Royal Bucks in 1970. Is it a hotel now. My Grandad Henry Gilmore worked at Hazel's as a printer before moving to Areo Prints in Gatehouse Road.

[@aprilapril2]

I thought it was a hospital still, but not nhs..it’s a private rehab facility .

[@aprilapril2]

I’d love to know what Vitus story was all about, ...

[@AylesburyRemembered]

Maybe one day we will know what happened.

[@kenineson9411]

@@AylesburyRemembered A story told to me whilst at The Grange School in the 1960’s. Mr. Bennet the English teacher was walking from home to school along Turnfurlong to work at The Grange, when he found a person hanging in a tree. I was told he was one of the first to arrive at the scene realising he was too late to help the person in the tree his next concern was to make sure school children wouldn’t see the person.

[@AylesburyRemembered]

Thanks for that, Ken. That explains why I couldn't find out anything - it's later than I thought. The digitised newspapers online only go up to 1953.