I vaguely remember seeing a light aircraft on the roof of a house to the left of New Road 15-20 years ago.
Around the same time, my daughter bought me a flying lesson at Booker Park. The next flight after my lesson, same instructor, crashed on landing. I heard it announced on the car radio as I was driving down New Road. The trainee pilot, from London, wound up in Wycombe hospital. I remember hoping at the time that residual nerves following my own efforts hadn’t been a factor.
Short but quite steep, from memory. Pinewood Road of course. Does a road have to be a specific minimum length to be called a hill, I wonder?
I live on Brimmers Hill which is relatively short and not very steep, although I remember thinking in the year or two leading up to my retirement that it had got quite a bit steeper.
I have very vague memories of having read about it. Turns out a Cessna light aircraft crashed into a house on Youens Road after flying into the power lines that cross the valley at that point. It was a couple of minutes walk from where I grew up but I can never remember anyone mentioning it when I was growing up.
When we moved to Brimmers Hill in 1983 we heard that a car had wound up on the roof of a bungalow just before the junction with Primrose Hill. Must have been absolutely flying.
That was my question above. I’ve since googled and there’s no record of the date. mrs micra thinks it was nearer 30 years ago and I think our 54 year old daughter bought me the flying lesson when she was in her early twenties. Not that my lesson and the aircraft on the roof of 25 Youen’s Drive were in the same year. The latter may have been a good deal earlier.
I remember the plane in the roof, always noted the different coloured roof tiles following the repair every time I subsequently went past. Think it was early 80's, maybe 83\84 ish.
Just of the catchment to be considered a Wycombe hill, but I'd like to make an honourable mention.... Winter Hill..... many a misspent evening up there as a rowdy teenager.... lovely view.... but I must confess in those days I went solely to smoke weed and make-out with girls
It's a lovely hill and the view is wonderful, but it's not even in Buckinghamshire! In terms of views, West Wycombe Hill by the Golden Ball and Dashwood mausoleum definitely deserves an honourable mention.
Green HIll in my youth had no houses except those at the bottom. it was narrower with more bends as it went through woodland and was exciting to cycle down. I was going down it with a friend and all of a sudden he was no longer with me. I went back to find that he had gone off the road and was emerging rather dishevelled from a holly bush. This was during the school holidays so we were able to ignore the RGS school rule banning riding down all three hills leading from the school.
I presume that the hill you cycled down @wingnut was the old roadway through the trees, turn left into the wooded area rather than right at the first sharp bend as you walk up?
We would occasionally walk up this way if we couldn't face Hamilton Hill, which could seem very daunting some days!
By 5th form I had a girlfriend at Lady Verney so would walk up through the cemetery, having started from the bus station in what is now the Eden Centre.
I once nearly choked on a boiled sweet I had been sucking while running down Green Hill trying to catch the early bus.
Good times - if more years ago than I care to say.
Driving from the luxuriously named Hughenden Boulevard and up Coates Lane into Downley Commonside is like traversing Middle Earth. And if you stop in the Bricklayers you really do feel like you’ve been transported back in time.
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Was there a place crash there or did I dream it
I vaguely remember seeing a light aircraft on the roof of a house to the left of New Road 15-20 years ago.
Around the same time, my daughter bought me a flying lesson at Booker Park. The next flight after my lesson, same instructor, crashed on landing. I heard it announced on the car radio as I was driving down New Road. The trainee pilot, from London, wound up in Wycombe hospital. I remember hoping at the time that residual nerves following my own efforts hadn’t been a factor.
Short but quite steep, from memory. Pinewood Road of course. Does a road have to be a specific minimum length to be called a hill, I wonder?
I live on Brimmers Hill which is relatively short and not very steep, although I remember thinking in the year or two leading up to my retirement that it had got quite a bit steeper.
You can have both - Carver Hill Road ...
Nowhere is higher than Stokenchurch mind
No mention yet of Abbey Barn Lane. A road with a ski slope.
Couldn't tell ya mate, I've not lived there for about 27 years
I have very vague memories of having read about it. Turns out a Cessna light aircraft crashed into a house on Youens Road after flying into the power lines that cross the valley at that point. It was a couple of minutes walk from where I grew up but I can never remember anyone mentioning it when I was growing up.
Superb @ReadingMarginalista
@micra You make a good point (as ever). Tancred Road is super-steep right at the top, yet for all its obvious hill-ness, it’s still called a road.
Thank you and, yes, that’s what I saw (to my left) as I drove down New Road.
Was there a date for that photograph, @ReadingMarginalista ?
When we moved to Brimmers Hill in 1983 we heard that a car had wound up on the roof of a bungalow just before the junction with Primrose Hill. Must have been absolutely flying.
Oh wow!!! Well found!!
What year was this?
Must have been the work of paranormal entities that!?
Anyone who has watched Most Haunted or similar will surely be able to spot the two prominent "Orbs" in that photo.
Definitely not specks of dust on the lense or anything similarly boring!!
I lived on new road from 1985 to around 1998
That was my question above. I’ve since googled and there’s no record of the date. mrs micra thinks it was nearer 30 years ago and I think our 54 year old daughter bought me the flying lesson when she was in her early twenties. Not that my lesson and the aircraft on the roof of 25 Youen’s Drive were in the same year. The latter may have been a good deal earlier.
I'm afraid I don't have a date for you other than 1980s going on the source of the photo (https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/25-youens-road-high-wycombe-cessna-on-1353814a).
My family didn't move to that part of town until 1987 so I'm guessing it was before then.
Probably not so superb for the unfortunate pilot (who survived injured) nor Mr and Mrs Herbert of 25 Youens Road.
Crikey! About 40 years ago then. The older you get the greater past events seem to be more recent than they were.
I remember the plane in the roof, always noted the different coloured roof tiles following the repair every time I subsequently went past. Think it was early 80's, maybe 83\84 ish.
Cryers Hill for me. Always admire the view particularly in the Autumn months, the colours are stunning!
Just of the catchment to be considered a Wycombe hill, but I'd like to make an honourable mention.... Winter Hill..... many a misspent evening up there as a rowdy teenager.... lovely view.... but I must confess in those days I went solely to smoke weed and make-out with girls
Now I know who was in one of the many steamed up cars I would often pass by!
It's a lovely hill and the view is wonderful, but it's not even in Buckinghamshire! In terms of views, West Wycombe Hill by the Golden Ball and Dashwood mausoleum definitely deserves an honourable mention.
Green HIll in my youth had no houses except those at the bottom. it was narrower with more bends as it went through woodland and was exciting to cycle down. I was going down it with a friend and all of a sudden he was no longer with me. I went back to find that he had gone off the road and was emerging rather dishevelled from a holly bush. This was during the school holidays so we were able to ignore the RGS school rule banning riding down all three hills leading from the school.
I presume that the hill you cycled down @wingnut was the old roadway through the trees, turn left into the wooded area rather than right at the first sharp bend as you walk up?
We would occasionally walk up this way if we couldn't face Hamilton Hill, which could seem very daunting some days!
By 5th form I had a girlfriend at Lady Verney so would walk up through the cemetery, having started from the bus station in what is now the Eden Centre.
I once nearly choked on a boiled sweet I had been sucking while running down Green Hill trying to catch the early bus.
Good times - if more years ago than I care to say.
My favourite view in town
Driving from the luxuriously named Hughenden Boulevard and up Coates Lane into Downley Commonside is like traversing Middle Earth. And if you stop in the Bricklayers you really do feel like you’ve been transported back in time.
Somebody said (I forget who) that if The Hobbit had a football stadium it would be Adams Park.
Makes the shark in the roof in the house in Oxford look a bit 💩 really !
Middle-Earth in general, and The Shire in particular, was the product of Tolkien's love for rural England, so it's no surprise.