Aylesbury has seen many changes over the years, but particularly during the 1960s when a vast amount of development took place. A large part of the town centre was swept away and replaced with a concrete shopping area. In addition the County Council had an office block and library built and the town's roads were improved - some were widened, but new streets also cut through land which was previously occupied by buildings.

This book focuses on the demolition of the clearance zone in readiness for the construction of Friars Square, the vast number of pubs which existed in the town in the 1960s and the long cold winter of 1962/63. Among the more than 200 images featured are views of the town and its people going about their daily business while the upheaval went on around them.

CONTENTS : Introduction; The Beginning of the Decade; The Pubs of Aylesbury, c.1962; From the Freezing Winter of 1963 to 1964; Demolition Under Way1964-65; From 1966 to the End of the Decade.

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