Paul Burnham:
J.R. Bloor Ltd., electroplaters, Queens Road, High Wycombe, as seen (in all its glory) from the railway station in 1985. The company was in business between 1968 and 1989, and this is what it looked like consistently, in its latter years of operation.
Paul Burnham:
Welding, 1998
Paul Burnham:
My father John Burnham's engraved watch. He worked for Hoovers from 1941 to 1982 (including active service in the RAF from 1943-47): he was at Leigh Street and then at Coronation Road in High Wycombe; and then at Perivale on the Western Avenue in London.
Paul Burnham:
Vernon Building - This is a small industrial estate In High Wycombe. Sometime around 1970 it was decorated with the words 'Workers Control' in large letters, which remained visible, although faded, for many years afterwards
Paul Burnham:
Great days at Wycombe District Council - 2001
Paul Burnham:
Wycombe Trades Union Council campaigning against low pay, 1999
Paul Burnham:
Election posters 1997: Wycombe constituency
Paul Burnham:
Worker stayed loyal despite asbestos illness
Paul Burnham:
John Turner 1941-2014
Paul Burnham:
Paul 1972 or 73
Paul Burnham:
Paul 1985 - still smiling in those days
Paul Burnham:
Len Burnham in bath chair, after discharge from the British Army
Paul Burnham:
Len Burnham - Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Order of the Sons of Temperance, 1960s
Paul Burnham:
Len Burnham's national reserve badge
Paul Burnham:
My favourite tomb in High Wycombe Churchyard
Paul Burnham:
Chalk - this is what the Chiltern Hills are made of!
Paul Burnham:
Me working for Chubb Fire as an assembler-fitter, 1997. Photo by John Cobb.
Paul Burnham:
Council housing campaign against stock transfer (sale of council homes to a housing association), High Wycombe, 2010
Paul Burnham:
Dock leaves
Paul Burnham:
The Pinza Plastics strike, High Wycombe, 1987. Successful in winning trade union recognition and a pay increase. This was an important dispute because a succession of other strikes and campaigns followed from it.
Paul Burnham:
Pinza Plastics factory meeting, High Wycombe, 1987. This took place in someone's house at the weekend.
Paul Burnham:
US out of Vietnam: 1960s graffiti still visible on a railway bridge back in my old home town, High Wycombe, England.
Paul Burnham:
Paul 1985
Paul Burnham:
Paul 1974, University of East Anglia: Student ID Photo
Paul Burnham:
Campaigning against housing stock transfer, High Wycombe
Paul Burnham:
Paul, with my finest red Rover Metro car, 1996, Coningsby Road, High Wycombe
Paul Burnham:
Len Burnham in the canteen at JB Heath's furniture factory, High Wycombe, 1940s: the factory made wing spars for the de Havilland Mosquito during WW2
Paul Burnham:
Cllr Arthur Forward of High Wycombe, as seen in the Daily Mirror, 13 March 1911
Paul Burnham:
Paul - Assembly fitter at Chubb Fire, High Wycombe, late 1990s
Paul Burnham:
St Mary and St George Church, Rutland Avenue, High Wycombe HP12 3XA: a free Byzantine style Grade II listed church, notable for its green (or turquoise) copper dome. 1935-38.
