High Street

Downley Post Office closes


Bricklayers Arms transferred from its original location in c1936

Thames Valley Traction Company acquired the route from the Chiltern Bus Company of Lane End in May 1936 and registered it as Route 35, High Wycombe Station to Downley Village Hall or Downley Smithy.

Spicer’s subsequently reopened in Littleworth Road near to the junction with Plomer Green Lane

Original location of the Bricklayers Arms at the junction of High Street and Plomer Green Lane

Downley War Memorial Hall. The plaque listing those men fallen in the Great War was . The barns of Downley Farm can be seen, in the distance, on the left of the photo.

The Golf Links public house closed in 1935, and the Bricklayers Arms moved to this location. In the foreground, on the LHS, is the entrance to Chapel Street.