It is hoped the images selected in this section of the website will be of assistance to schools in developing pupils’ understanding of the Chilterns. In particular, the site aims to help pupils to use Information Technology within the Geography and History curricula. This may be appropriate within lessons, or as part of pupils’ work at home.

There are direct links to these sets of pictures below.

Click on any blue address line and, on the next page, the "Description browse" button at top right. You can then scroll down our detailed descriptions to select the pictures you want. You may need to zoom in to read the small size text.

Click on any thumbnail to see the enlarged photo and its caption. Then, if you wish, you can click on the Slide Show arrow and set the delay interval.

Please send any comments about using these pictures to the Editor,
Quiller Barrett webphotos@chilternphoto.org.uk.

The National Curriculum programmes of study for geography require that schools plan some of pupils’ learning around a Water Theme. Included within this there is an expectation that much of this study will use the local area as the context. It is therefore appropriate to consider the unique qualities of chalk streams, which only occur in landscapes such as the Chilterns that overlie a predominantly chalk geology.

Chalk streams are formed differently from rivers such as the Thames, leading to a lack of understanding about why they ‘dry up’. There could be useful links to environmental change and sustainability.

This web site already contains images showing the variation in the flow of some chalk streams in different years, and at different times of year. The Hughenden Stream, River Bulbourne, River Chess Valley and River Misbourne are included so far.
Chalk Rivers & Streams

Local settlements, large and small, are of relevance to both the Geography and History programmes of study. Chiltern towns and villages, varying in type and size, are included on the website. Buildings are identified, and in some cases, streets as they are now and compared with the way they were some fifty years ago. Where possible, extended descriptions have been included. The PhotoGroup is continuing to take images of particular areas and is willing to concentrate on specific villages/towns at the request of schools.
Locations

Wild flowers

Schools may include local wild flowers in their studies of ‘Life and living processes’ in science. There are nearly 100 different species in the
Wooller Collection of Flowers to help with identification.

Farming

Photographs of farmers and farming in the Chilterns showing how things have changed since the 1940s.

Bodgers

The history of the local area would be incomplete without the inclusion of the chair making which was the foundation of furniture manufacture in the Wycombe area. The selection of images of the last of the bodgers, Owen Dean, at work in Great Hampden in 1958, provides a fascinating insight into this craft.
The last Chiltern chair bodger

Furniture making in High Wycombe

High Wycombe used to be home to some 200 furniture makers. One of the few still operating in the town in 2006 is Stewart Linford, who leads a team of craftsmen producing bespoke furniture.
Furniture maker: Stewart Linford

Special Photo Sets

What has changed?
Photos looking at the same location but taken years apart. Click on "Berkhamsted", "Chalfont St Giles" and “1930s Chiltern Country” to see a number of examples.

Chilterns' Highest Point
A cairn in Wendover Woods marks the highest point in the Chiltern Hills.