A few weeks ago, this column featured Wycombe Air Park, formerly known as Booker Airfield, and, on the day after, I was kindly sent a better picture of the spectacular 1948 Tiger Moth crash, and that is top right.

I already had all the details of that incident but the Wycombe Nostalgia contributor Mike Dewey kindly found the facts and figures for the other spectacular ‘landing’ that I featured on the Lane End Road, from the archives of the Bucks Free Press.

He printed it in one of his own subsequent columns.

Taking inspiration from another of Mike’s pages I have found a few more local incidents that might interest you.

Not much is known about the second picture but it must be local as it is by Frank Colvill, the cameraman who took over Scott & Smith’s High Street photographic shop just before the First World War.

I would guess the picture dates from that early period, and since originally just sepia tinged I have added a touch of colour.  

 My very first car had a ‘D’ registration so I can guess at late 60s or early 70s for the third picture, an incident on Bisham Hill, and, back then, the days just before the bypass, the right-hand turning to Hurley and Henley would have been close to this spot. 

Just a few years later, the fourth picture looks nasty and is on Burroughs Grove Hill just past the Marlow Bottom junction.

The photo colouring is suspect, as Thames Valley buses were always red.

I can only guess that the silver appearance resulted from the arc lights of the recovery team.

Possibly Mike Dewey can find more details of this accident and if there were many injuries.

Fifth picture, not a crash, but a breakdown, and the strong arms of the law are lending a hand.

Doubtful if you would find a Bobby on any street in Marlow in 2022.

Finally, this seriously overloaded wagon of hay came to grief in West Street close to Quoiting Square.

Alternative caption for this great picture - “Here’s your delivery Madam, I’ll leave it just outside”.

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