Typed notes on the history of ‘Top Meadow’ written for Roger Evans, Listed Buildings Officer, Bucks County Council.
P-GKC/N/003
Date: 1989
The addresses are of G K Chesterton Study Centre and for Rev Henry Reed who previously lived at Top Meadow
P-GKC/N/004
Date: 1995
The poem ‘The Buckinghamshire Highwayman’ is to Clement Shorter, author of ‘Highways and Byways’
P-GKC/N/005
Date: 1959
Article giving details of Chesterton’s life and love of Beaconsfield. Includes sketch and black and white photographs of him and his house
P-GKC/NC/001
Date: 1988
Article regarding the ongoing appeal by the Top Meadow Trust to raise £1 million to set up a study centre and museum dedicated to G K Chesterton.
P-GKC/NC/002
Date: 1989
Article giving comprehensive details of Chesterton’s life in Beaconsfield, his conversion to Catholicism, his homes in Grove Road, his secretary Dorothy Collins and The Chesterton Society archives. Photographs of Rev Henry Reed, Dorothy Collins and Top Meadow.
P-GKC/NC/003
Date: 1979
Article regarding the visit of the American G K Chesterton Society president Dale Ahlquist. Includes details of the stained glass window in St Teresa’s church commemorating the poem The Godmaker.
P-GKC/NC/004
Date: 2002
Account of the visit of the American G K Chesterton Society to attend conference in Beaconsfield, includes colour photograph.
P-GKC/NC/005
Date: 2004
Brief note regarding the broadcasting career of G K Chesterton
P-GKC/NC/006
Date: 1980-2000
Review of book called “Wisdom and Innocence: a Life of G K Chesterton” by Joseph Pearce. Includes black and white photo of Chesterton.
P-GKC/NC/007
Date: 1980-2000
Two letters to the Editor, one from the Chairman of the Chesterton Society and the other from CC Aronsfeld discussing Chesterton’s anti-Semitism.
P-GKC/NC/008
Date: 1996
Report of a speech by Chesterton at Furze Platt, Maidenhead, given to raise funds for the village War Memorial Hall.
P-GKC/NC/009
Date: 1920-1929
Article on proposal to make G K Chesterton a saint. Contains two photographs: one of the blue plaque on his house and one of Chesterton.
P-GKC/NC/010
Date: 1995
Article regarding the sale of Top Meadow
P-GKC/NC/011
Date: 1994
Article refers to the erection of a memorial plaque at the former home of G. K. Chesterton.
P-GKC/NC/012
Date: 1967
Gloss colour photograph GK Chesterton’s house in Grove Road called Top Meadow; on the right is part of the studio where GK wrote. House in Arts & Crafts Style built gradually between c1922 and 1926
P-GKC/Ph/010
Date: 1994