 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in the precinct in Chalfonson Peter as we begin part three of our heritage walk Looking at the plaques around the village of Chalfonson Peter. So we finished part two here I said about how this is the more modern part and not the most popular part as in buildings to look at of Chalfonson Peter, but I'm going to show you some of what was here first But I'm going to start with this one the High Street in the 1950s You can see Looking up there the only building I think still to be there is that there that is the White Heart pub just over there Interestingly appears to be a Barclays Bank and there still is a Barclays Bank But it's not the same building. So the precinct just over here I've got a couple more plaques to show you as this one here Which someone's parked a bike in front of looking up the marketplace now That's today's view so you can see the difference not really anything is the same you can see Just how narrow marketplace would have been Compared to what it is today Of course, then it was known as Gold Hill Lane as we talked about in part one now on the other side of the fence we have Another placard it shows exactly what was here before the precincts have a look. There's the precinct built in the 1960s It's great. Yes, it's got a lot of shops a lot of flats But architecturally wise, it's not that attractive. This is what it replaced a really rather idyllic village scene with a ford on the River Mizborn So I'll show you where that Ford was because we're going to come to that But there was a Ford here. Well the Ford would have been there and There had just been a few buildings another pub around there So the river is culverted right underneath here. So somewhere below that carpark is the River Mizborn now I'm going across the road and We're going to move on to another one right here at the beginning of the High Street It's a grocery store on a post office. So that was This building here where there's now an empty shop. So There would have been a post office that's set into a sash window and Mr. Keys and his door a telegraph Boy stands by so you can just see that there and there's the boy who would deliver the papers There's the parish church. So let's kind of look at that now And as we go I can show you where the Ford would have been so the Ford would have been there Well that white van is and people would have you know driven straight through it It wouldn't have been really, you know, it's quite normal for rivers just to flow right through the middle of The village now the next plaque is in the church yard. So I'm gonna take you into the church yard and We're gonna come back to the Ford in a moment. We'll let you see the Architecture of this lovely church. I was christened here when I was a baby So it's quite a special church to me I've you know, I've been to various services throughout the years in St. Peter's Church and Champs St. Peter and Over there is the village hall Unfortunately church isn't open today. I've already tried otherwise. We could have perhaps gone that look There may be another time we'll do that. That's the village car park over there where we started part one Where we will be going again in a later video that's some The village halls air it's this tree we've come to look at because there's a plaque on it It shows The old vicarage have a look at that So having a look at it, you can see obviously the vicarage that gravestone there is still there that big brick tomb So the vicarage would have been literally there just the other side of that hedge So it's a real shame really it has been demolished, but I suppose, you know, obviously needed somewhere to put the village car park There is another vicarage now the vicar lives about halfway between here and George Cross There is still a vicarage for the church to let you see it. There's the tower This extension here that was built. I remember it being built in my lifetime So as I said, I was christened here the doorway used to be Just over there the main porch where I've got pictures of like my relatives all standing outside There when I was a baby, I don't remember That I do remember other members of my family and my sisters getting christened there and that was always the entrance So it must have been at some point certainly this century that this extension was built I do remember them building it. What I'm going to do now I'm going to take you around the back of the church and we'll go back to the village centre We'll have another look at the room is born That's where then the vicarage would have been literally there the vicar would have come through that gate I'm going to take you around here So now around the quieter side of the church yard So gives us a chance to compare the modern architecture with the older architecture It's nice how they've still got the stone tableted corners Just like the older church building has so you know, it's quite nice to see it's a building Sometimes you see ugly extensions on modern buildings. So that's an extension. You can tell it's modern It's done really nicely. It's also done In English Bond, this is English Bond where you have you've got one row of headers Or no run road of stretchers one row of headers So it's a solid wall on more modern build is many bit after the war You have a cavity wall and you have just bricks, you know each layer is stretchers You also get a Flemish born where One row is header stretcher header stretcher So perhaps we'll do a video on to have different types of bonds of bricks But leave that for another time. I just want to show you that So back to the front of the church And there's one more plaque in the church yard This one here on this tree gives us another view of how the high street used to look So this one's a bit more modern. It's in the 1960s, but still very different as you can see And there's a very London like Bus stop because there would have been London country buses. There is still a bus stop here It's over there. We're gonna have to go over to that one in a minute because it's a plaque On that building there that was the George, but we'll talk about that in a moment So you can see how it had been but it's obviously before the precinct was built So unfortunately this building here is no longer there Right, we're going to go out of the church yard now And we're going to go across to that bus shelter So there is a plaque here by the River Misborn. I want to show you that one first There's two actually on the bus shelter. I'm just going to walk Here, let you see the Misborn So that's the River Misborn There more of that in a moment. I'm going to run across the road to the This bus shelter. No buses actually stop here anymore though Gives us another view of how it used to be Now the interesting thing about this one is you can see the Greyhound pub That building there and this building here bridge house is that building there It's now the Frost Partnership. So they survive, but what happens is beyond there We're going to look at that in a moment. The High Street used to carry on to what is now the roundabout But unfortunately it was all demolished when they put the road in But now let's have a look at an earlier picture of the Greyhound Now you can see by looking at it There was a carriageway in through there which is now That there so they filled that in made it part of the pub But the horses would have once gone right through now What I'm going to do I'm going to take you across the road and we'll look at the one by the Misborn So here we are by the River Misborn. There's the Greyhound pub over there now There's another plaque Just here and this one I really like because it really shows How similar some places can be but still how different so you've got the Greyhound pub You've got bridge house and you've also got what was known as the George But have a close look at these cottages there Only one of them survives just where that white van is so that's a real shame That was obviously built when they put the roundabout in And the George carriageway which goes along behind over there and then of course this Is where the culvert starts and you may wonder why there's that little Um open bit there that was because that was built for horses to drink So when they put the culvert in people said well the horses won't be able to drink from the fort So they left a little opening so horses could come in and drink from the fort So the culvert runs right underneath the precincts and it just comes out on the other side But one day we'll do a video on River Misborn and we'll talk about that then I'm now going to go around the other side of Greyhound by the roundabout and show you some more of these plaques So here we are around the other side of the Greyhound pub I'm having to shout because we are by the busy road and I see that gay blend there That's the road of cottages. I just mentioned so that would have carried on Right out into the middle of where the roundabout has been put in Now if we have a look here you can see how the high street carried on So the high street really carried on before they opened all of this out to make it into a George carriageway The road we've got over there. We're going to go and look at that in a minute. That's joiners lane That there's just been a little lane going up from the high street. It's now all residential That's the George carriageway I said about over there So you really have to pretty much demolish half the village centres and put this Road widening scheme in. Now I'm going to take you into the pub car park because there's a plaque there to show you So um, yeah just to give you an idea This would have been the middle of the high street, not the end. Those cottages You know carried right on. It's really strange in a way Um how it's kind of been you know changed so much over the years So let's go and have a look. There is a plaque down here at the end of the pub car park Going to show us a bit more of that high street. That's no longer there So here we are So there'd have been another pub somewhere probably on this bit of grass here. It was called the rose and crown So, you know, all of that was gone. It would have been literally Well next door to this one. So you can see just how much really has changed in this village What I'm going to do now. I'm going to get back up to crown level. I'm going to go across the road I'm not going to do this bit on film. I'm going to run across the road and show you a couple more Over on the other side around about by join this lane So I'm just now coming out of the underpass that's taken us under the dual carriageway And besides around about to um the bottom of join this lane. So a moment ago We were over there by the greyhound in the next plaque I want to show you is just here at the beginning of join this lane Hiding in this is an elm tree a lot of people think all the elms have died because of dutch elm disease Well, they do still grow but they only grow to a certain height I can't really show you on this one, but they do start to die out But perhaps we'll do a video on trees another time But I just thought you'd like to see this elm that's kind of half hiding in this plaque This plaque shows swan farm Unfortunately swan farm was demolished to make way for the roundabout But it was lived in by the bosner family. Now if you have a look there, just see that's Charlie bosner. He was the farmer. So it must have been somewhere About here somewhere. I'm not exactly sure where what I'm going to do now. I'm going to get Cross join this lane as soon as this car Has come I'm going to show you the next one. That's a little bit strange happened unfortunately This one was stolen by someone, you know, I don't know why So they've put a new one back While let you read what they've had to say So yeah, it's a shame that that happened. But anyway, it shows this was where It was a smithy david brown smithy. He lived here. The site is now a car garage. So Yeah, that's how things change. We're now going to walk a little while along there The next plaque is just along the rain road towards amisham So I've just come a little way along the a413 the amisham road and This is the final plaque. I'm going to show you in part three in part four We're going to go further out away from the village centre to look at the rest of the plaques Because they're all a bit further, you know, no out. But anyway, this one here we are So it shows some shops that would have been somewhere. So as I said, the high street, you know, would Was somewhere in the middle of this dual carriageway. There was also some tyres And it says the old mill farm was on the left. So somewhere there was a farm in amongst all of this So it's really amazing to see just how much it changed and I wouldn't say this is for the better I know obviously they've had to put the main road in but you know, they've really changed this part of chaff on st Peter to um Really just just the road, you know, it's um, the demolished buildings and Effectively, you know, not replaced them with anything. So I'm going to leave part three here I'm going to carry on walking Further out out into the village and we'll have a look at a few more in part four So thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like subscribe comment tell your friends. Goodbye