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Date of photo: 2013	Image taken from the Sharing Wycombe's Old Photographs website www.swop.org.uk, and shown with the permission of the copyright holder Bucks Free Press
The Mother Redcap was situated on London Road. This pub is now used as an Indian restaurant.
I used to live very close to this pub, which was my father’s local. I remember that there used to be a plaque on the wall near the door with the following rhyme on it: Old Mother Redcap According to her tale Lived twenty and one hundred years Through drinking this good ale It was her meat, it was her drink Her medicine beside And if she still had drunk this ale She never would have died.
In September 1902 a new rail tunnel was being dug under White House Farm, which is in White House lane opposite the pub. There was a major collapse in the tunnel, killing 6 men and injuring several others. The men were buried in High Wycombe cemetery and the inquest was held at the Mother Redcap. There is a memorial to the men in rthe cemetery.
Ray Wilkinson (May 2015)
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Date of photo: 1972	Copyright: Bucks Free Press