 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in Chalfonson Peter Village Centre again. This is part two of our adventure around Chalfonson Peter where we go back in time and look and see how Chalfonson Peter would have been with the help of these plaques. So this one shows the old cinema. That building there, that's the marketplace which is still there. That is the cinema. Now if we stand back, there you go, you can see that gable end. Those 1960s buildings or 70s, that's where the cinema would have been. It was demolished in the 1960s and replaced with the current building. On this video we're going to concentrate on the actual high street itself which is here. The road looking up there, that's the marketplace. Used to be called Gold Hill Lane. So this is the oldest part of the village. Now again quite a lot of the village has been rebuilt but we are able to see, you know, imagine a fair amount of what would have been here. Now the next plat, oh here it is, is just here. So this plat rather than showing so much of a building or a scene from the village actually shows more about life. It shows a group of gentlemen going on a cherubonic coach trip to see the races. So they're all waiting there. I don't recognise any of the buildings in the background. They must have all been demolished. Quite a lot of the buildings along here, either Victorian. There's not so many old buildings but we're going to walk along here now, further along the high street and try and find the next plaque which should be somewhere just along here. In fact now I know where it is from looking at the map. It's actually in the co-op car park. We saw the front of co-op in part one. We're now around the back of co-op and this is the co-op car park and if we come into here on the wall here is the next plaque. So it's here on the wall. It was the beach cottage. It was number 12 high street. So I assume the frontage you see there was probably over there but it was home to a spy called Nun May and it then was demolished in 1979 and now it's car park. Right, let's go and find the next plaque which again I know where it is. It's very close to here. There are some on the other side of the high street but we'll do them later on in the video. I'm going to walk up this side of the high street and we'll come back down the other side. So here is the library. So if you want to get this leaflet this is where you can come and get it now and believe on the back of the library. So that is what the village once looked like looking down the high street. So the cottage we just looked at that was there where I said where Budgins was. In fact if you look there that that is probably the beach tree we see there just where that van is pulling out. You can see the church in the background and some of the cottages are the same. I can't yeah I can just see the church is kind of half blocks by the the beach trees leaves but that is how Chalvon St Peter looks. A lot less busier than it is today. What I'm going to do now I'm going to carry on walking this way up the high street and we're going to go more into a residential area now and find the next plaque. So as we walk along the high street in the rain we come to Grainge Road this is where we shall find our next plaque. Now this was once the entrance to a stately home. You can see there's a post there you might have already spotted as a plaque on it. Another gate post there so this would have been the main road there is now a bypass just over there so this road isn't anything like as busy as it would have been but this was the gates to a stately home which very sadly was demolished in 2016 it became a convent and the convent closed and they demolished it and they built a load of houses which you know is understandable but I'm really disappointed that they demolished a historic stately home and so there isn't really a lot of what was there to see that they kept the chapel and these gates post survived one day I'll do a video on this whole estate and I have got some footage very sad footage of them demolished it so that'll be in another video but here we are here is the the post we're standing by you can see there was once a little gardeners cottage here and those fields over the other side of what is now the main road that's all now Chalfort Heights which is a private housing estate we're going to come on to that in a minute it's a public footpath so you can walk through there so there's not actually plaques there but we will go there but you can see the gardeners cottage would have been well literally here where this road here isn't if we look on there's another plaque here it shows the gardeners cottage so this plaque here shows a better picture of the gardeners cottage it also tells us that in the Grange itself like I said we will do a separate video on it but in the Grange lived Isaac Pennington and his daughter married William Penn the founder of Pennsylvania and Isaac Pennington was the Lord Mayor of London so I'm now going to carry on walking along the lower road till we find our next plaque there's the other gate post just there so yeah this is this was once the entrance to a grand stately home so I've now just come a bit further down the road to this road here woodside close now there's one thing that's not to do with the plaque but I find interesting about it I mentioned talking about how things have changed over the years and how new roads get built and everything this is now woodside close but it was once a through road into Chalfort Heights so it had gone literally straight ahead we'll go and have a look at that in a minute but there is a plaque in a rather sort of unlikely place but just here on this fence behind the tree now this plaque is they use is about the Chalfort Hill Climb the Bugatti owners Club they used to do a hill climb up Woodside Hill which we'll go and have a look at in a minute so I'll let you have a closer look so that was of course before the main A413 was put through and it was a through road so it's been effectively split into this little cul-de-sac here and there's another road on the other side the A413 just look in there that house is still there but we can't see it because the copper beach tree is in the way but the track was 375 yards admittedly I'm reading this off here and somebody did complete it Ra Cookson in his Type 49 Bugatti in 28 seconds in 1935 and then after that they stopped doing it that wouldn't have been because the road was built that would have just been I don't know for whatever reason but if we walk along here I want to show you how the main road has been put through here so what happens it would have gone like I said it had gone straight ahead they put the main road through some 50s 60s houses have been built going off down there just here we're going to cross River Mizzbourn now I said although Chalfort Heights is private road it is all public footpaths so you can see how they've had to alter but keep a public right away there's River Mizzbourn down there and there'll be more the River Mizzbourn in future videos so the road now bends down there you can pretty hear the traffic on the A413 this is public footpath so we're gonna go down here always like this footpath I don't know why I just just feels a bit sort of secret and out the way you've got the backs of houses on lower road down there and it's the more modern houses that have been built in the gardens because the houses on lower road have quite long back gardens so they've built a couple of little colder sacks and put some more modern houses in so like I said we're now on a fairly modern footpath I'm not sure exactly year they put this bypass in if anyone knows what's the comment tell me please do and so the River Mizzbourn goes along there we're gonna do a video on the Mizzbourn in the future and so watch out for that crossing the main road just got to bear with me a moment I'm gonna run after this car and I want to show you how Woodside Road would have gone straight across so all this here this is a modern service road but you can see the hill that's where the Bugattis would have climbed so they've uninterruptedly come across here they've been the small bridge over River Mizzbourn and the challenge was to climb that hill there which is now part of the Chalfont Heights housing estate and it's private road but you can't walk through there I'm not going to go that way I'm going to go back to the village centre and we're going to go and find some more plaques so we're back in the high street in the village centre over there was the beach cottage which we saw earlier now I'm back here it shows an old workhouse so the workhouse would have been just over there see where the man's walking now that more modern building that's on the site although the workhouse um well since it's pitched in the 20th I'm not sure when it was demolished it had very harsh conditions though to deter scroungers which you know makes sense I'm now going to carry on got one more in the village centre so here we are in a very rainy village centre on the public toilet block is another plaque it shows Barrack Yard which is where St Peter's Court currently now stands we're going to have a minute but this is what it would look like so it was the back of a coach and it's where some of all of the Cornwell's soldiers would have been stationed at their barracks so yeah quite an interesting place I'm going to now leave the public toilet block by the way I did say in part one that's the modern public toilet block um not the most exciting feature I know but the older public toilets would have been just there at the below the gay blend where said marketplace this is St Peter's Court now I'm going to leave this video here and I'm going to start the next video here because there's quite a lot this is you know more modern and not the best part of Chalf from St Peter well it is pleasant and everything but you know it's not attractive that was the word I'm looking for so hope you enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching in part four I should tell you more about this part of Chalf from St Peter the High Street and the Church