Picture of the Month

Each month a photograph from the newsletter is nominated as Picture of the Month, click on the pictures below to expand:

2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016

2025

The partial solar eclipse, as seen from Lee Common
Partial solar eclipse in Lee Common
Snowdrops in the churchyard
Photograph of Joe Harrison CBE, in front of a laurel hedge
Joe Harrison CBE
Charlotte Reynolds receives the 2024 Newsletter Award from Phil Harrison
Cricketers at The Lee around 1914

2024

The Cock and Rabbit 1902
Blackboard with a sign warning "Frogs crossing from dawn to dusk"
New roadsign by Team Frog
A Baptism… at St John the Baptist
Girl hiding behind a large banner advertising the Flower Show
If it’s July… it must be the Flower Show
Tea time at The Lee Church Fete
Celebration annivaersary cake, showing the Hall and Shop along with the postbox, flower stand and even a pile of newspaper returns on the bench
The Parish Hall and Shop – in cake
The Post Office visits Lee Common School
Pet portraiture by Chrissi Ratcliffe
Pet portraiture by Chrissi Ratcliffe
A Mustard Seed tree created at Lee Common School, illustrating the parable of the mustard seed from Matthew 13. The children have made birds to sit on the branches.
From tiny mustard seeds…
Boot camp ladies at Lee Common
Santa stops to ask the way of a Newsletter Editor

2023

Hilltops Ukrainian Support Community
Hilltops Ukrainian Support Community
Lee Common school councillors, with their suggestion box
Lee Common School Councillors… future Parish Councillors?
Summer visitors
Lee Common School 150 years celebration mural
A Ukrainian ‘Thank you’
Coronation Phil
Celebration time!
Front and back pictures of the mugs comemorating the Coronation of HM King Charles III
The Coronation of HM King Charles III
Dougal Hildrith, Ian Dell and the Dreamteam on top of Kilimanjaro
Peter Bunce
Janet as a child and Diana at the Newsletter Dinner
Two of our older residents: Janet Joyner and Diana Morley, then and now
1909 souvenir postcard of The Lee

2022

Steve Burrows receives the Award for Merit to Scouting
Cor, love a duck
Memorial and accession ceremony at The Lee
QEII memorial and KCIII accession ceremony at The Lee
The Cricket Club's stand at the Flower Show, with the scoreboard prominently displaying 187 for 5 - the club was founded in 1875.
So when do you think the Cricket Club played its first match?
A selection of scenes from the Jubilee celebrations: tug of war, winning a race, the Occasional Singers, tractors on parade and the picnic at the Parish Hall - with a centrepiece of the school's commemmorative mosaic
Too many brilliant photos to pick out one!
The Lee @ EX34 8LW
May Day at Lee Common
Row of daffodils along the hedge in the 'bonfire field'
A host of golden daffodils
The football team with no name!
Excavation works at South Heath, with the straight lines showing where the track will be
Area of (formerly) Outstanding Natural Beauty
Gill Owen-Conway, BEM for services to the community

2021

Remembrance Sunday 2021
A Re-engage gathering at Lower Bassibones Farm, Lee Common
A Re-engage summer gathering at Lower Bassibones Farm, Lee Common
King's Trooper Rick Brockett in dress uniform, leading a horse by the reins
From King’s Troop to the troupe of Ballinger Players, our erstwhile Community Glazier Hygienist
The Church in the community
Dick, Colin and Jonathan of the TLPC Task Force looking into a large hole that they've dug ready for a new gate into the allotments.
Holes, holes and yet more holes
Day by Day Stained Glass window at Stoke Mandeville Hospital
‘Day by Day’ a stained glass window by Claudia D’Allessandro at Stoke Mandeville Hospital
Barnaby at the wicket in his garden
Out for 83 – RIP Barnaby
Getting ready to open up for a new season!
Montage of photos of several residents of Fromelles smiling, with the legend "A Fromelles ou ailleurs, redecouvrons nos Sourires en 2021" which roughly translates as "In Fromelles and elsewhere, let's rediscover our smiles in 2021"
Let’s rediscover our smiles in 2021
A wreath laid on the stump of an oak tree, felled to make way for HS2
Old Oak at Hunts Green – RIP (Picture by Don Stone)
Santa's sleigh, drawn by a reindeer
Santa paid The Lee a flying visit

2020

Sally Knowles with the ‘Proud of Bucks’ award for The Shop at The Lee
John Barber and his steam car
John Barber and his steam car
SIgnposts at the top of Lee Clump Road, pointing diverted traffic in all three possible directions
There must be some way out of here… said the joker to the thief
‘Lucky’ the magpie – aka ‘Fred’
multiple pictures of flowers for The Flower Show at Home
The Lee Flower Show 2020 – At Home
HS2 boring machine
HS2 boring machine: coming to a field near you
a series of photos of Tommo and Holly bending into strange shapes to spell out "Happy Mum Day"
Happy Mum Day!
Blue whale skeleton at the Natural History Museum
Blue whale skeleton at the Natural History Museum
Rainbow gate - Thank you NHS
Aerial photo of Park Cottage surround by water on two sides, with a new stream created by Storm Dennis running down into the park from several fields away
The Lee’s new water feature
Shop Volunteers receive the 2019 Newsletter Award

2019

Pat giving out envelopes at the Rovong Supper
Where shall we rove for supper tonight?
Peter Macann enthralls the audience at the Annual Newsletter Dinner
Peter Macann enthralls the audience at the Annual Newsletter Dinner
Carving a cross in a tree in Barn Wood to mark the northernmost point of the parish
Marking the northernmost point of the parish
Sue cooking Halloumi for 72 at Kopiaste
The Halloumi Queen
Ducks learn how to get to and from the pond
Cyclists on the Dulux Revolution event passing the Green
The Dulux Revolution comes to The Lee
The walking group - 7 humans and 8 dogs
Lee walkers … and their owners
a highly decorated Victoria Sponge with flowers and strawberries
A Victoria Sponge to be proud of
boys vs girls in the tug of war at the Church Fete
The battle of the sexes at The Lee Church Fête
A wintry scene at The Lee
A wintry scene at The Lee

2018

The Lee in Living Memory book
The Lee in Living Memory
The Lee War Memorial, with a silhouette 'Tommy'
Lest we forget
stained glass window of a rural scene with swallows and the text 'All Things Bright and Beautiful'made by The Glass House
The Glass House
Bryan knows his onions
Lee Common C of E School Maypole Dancing at the Church Fete
Lee Common C of E School Maypole Dancing at the Church Fête
walkers and dogs admiring the bluebells
Bluebell walk
Image of a roe deer
Roe Deer, Image (by Stewart Dennis)
snowdrifts
Just a little reminder of what it was like in March
the mobile library
The end of the road… for BCC mobile library
Silver-washed fritillary (by Don Stone)
Silver-washed fritillary (by Don Stone)

2017

Inscription reading 'Women, Prosecco, Chese and Secateurs. OBQ 2017' on the latest kissing gate installed by Chltern Society volunteers
The dedication on the latest kissing gate installed by the Chiltern Society volunteers
Sam H: winner of the John Glanfield Fair Play trophy
Sam H: winner of the John Glanfield Fair Play trophy
Lee Common Scouts visit a German national Scouting jamboree
Lee Common Scouts visit a German national Scouting jamboree
The Shop's stall at the Flower Show
The Shop @ The Lee @ The Show
Girls team at the tug-of-war at the Church Fete
Pulling together! The Lee Church Fête
Shop volunteers (and Symeon) behind a table full of goodies at the shop's Greek monring
It’s all Greek to me
Spawn-producing frogs (by Don Stone)
Spawn-producing frogs (by Don Stone)
Lee Common Scouts ready to go climbing
Lee Common Scouts
Grey Heron at Sly Corner (by Don Stone)
Grey Heron at Sly Corner (by Don Stone)
photograph of Dr Heather Barrett-Mold, appointed OBE in the New Year's Honours
New Year’s Honours in The Lee: Dr Heather Barrett-Mold OBE
Mr Barnaby Usborne appointed OBE in the New Year's Honours
New Year’s Honours in The Lee: Mr Barnaby Usborne MBE

2016

One person with 9 dogs around a bench on the green
Just how many dogs are there in The Lee?
Lots of people and dogs climbing a hill for a sponsored dog walk to raise money for the Chilterns Dog Rescue Society
Sponsored dog walk to raise money for the Chilterns Dog Rescue Society
Bench on the tennis court, dedicated to the meory of Roger Morgan
Dedicated to the memory of Roger Morgan – a fitting tribute
Fromelles July 2016 – lest we forget
Helpers ready to start service in the tea tent at The Lee church fête
Tea and cakes at The Lee Church Fête
Chris Nevill, Group Scout Leader, Lee Common proudly wears the Scout Associations's Silver Acorn Award
Chris Nevill, Group Scout Leader, Lee Common proudly wears the Scout Associations’s Silver Acorn Award
'Head boards' at The Lee Old Church
‘Head boards’ at The Lee Old Church
Fibre broadband cabinet - if only
If only …
Cast of Midsomer Murders outside the Cock and Rabbit - renamed as the Rose and Chalice
Saints and Sinners at the Cock & Rabbit
A view looking north across Hunts Green and Kings Ash ... before the railway
A view looking north across Hunts Green and Kings Ash … before the railway