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Date of photo: 2013	Picture source: Movement80
The Anchor was situated at 7 Crown Lane. This pub is now used as a lounge bar called The Snug.
I drank in there during the late 70's and early 80's. There were two bars, the one to the left was sometimes called the wizards bar and the one to the right the paddies bar. The wizards bar was mainly bikes (or greasers) and on a Saturday you sometimes could walk through the bar as it was so crowded. The landlord at the time was called Dennis as far as I can remember was an ex-copper. I also remember there being record sleeves on the ceiling and a record player behind the bar before the juke box was fitted. When Dennis left in the 80's the new landlord chose to get rid of all the bikers and the pub became very quiet. I remember returning there on a Saturday lunch time and they'd ripped out the old bar and basically in my opinion ruined the pub. Haven't been back there since then.
Iain Akhurst (November 2014)
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Date of photo: 1928	Image taken from the Sharing Wycombe's Old Photographs website www.swop.org.uk, and shown with the permission of the copyright holder High Wycombe Library