Aylesbury Publicised In Britain

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27751, 31 August 1955, Page 6

Aylesbury Publicised In Britain

(From the London Correspondent of “The Press”) LONDON, August 20. Aylesbury, Canterbury, has been publicised with story and pictures in a Buckinghamshire newspaper. Earlier in the year a Canadian made a speech alleging there was only one Aylesbury (outside the Buckinghamshire town) in the world and that town —“a railway station and three shacks”—was in Canada. A nurse at Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, Miss E. Strong, apparently heard of this statement and sent a picture of the New Zealand Aylesbury’s little railway station to prove the Canadian wrong. But there is a closer relation between Aylesbury (U.K.) and Aylesbury (N.Z.) because part of the British town is known as “New Zealand.” Old ordnance maps show an area Sie the New Zealand Public Buckingham road, named “New d.” But the history books dealing with Aylesbury give no reason for It could have been named when the Dominion was discovered or it could have been named after part of Holland because the area is low-lying and subject to flooding. The “Bucks Herald” is going to make some further investigations to find a closer connexion, and it also sends special greetings to the residents.