Article with black and white photographs about old manors in South Bucks
B-G/A/001
Date: 01/05/1968
Sales particulars for Gregories, Piebalds, The Old Coach House, giving brief history of Gregories Manor. Includes black and white photographs.
B-G/A/005
Date: 1947-1950
Article describes Gregories Farm, relating to its sale for £365,000 with black and white photograph
B-G/NC/003
Date: 17/12/1993
Draft article charts the history of icehouses from 2000BCE to their demise in the 1920s. The lost icehouse is in Walkwood Beaconsfield.
B-IH/A/003
Date: c2000
Article charts the history of icehouses from 2000BC to their demise in the 1920’s. The lost icehouse is mentioned in Walkwood. There are 2 photographs.
B-IH/R/003
Date: 2003
Article regarding Stoke Park in Stoke Poges, its history and details of its development
B-SP/A/002
Date: c2000
Article and photograph of the War Memorial in Beaconsfield Old Town.
B-WM/NC/006
Date: 15/03/1991
Collection of articles, letters, research notes etc extracted from various sources and passed to the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society relating to Candlemas Pond.
B-CLP
Date: 1920-2000
A booklet about St Mary church; includes background of the church, plan, the Parish, life outside the church and living in the Church; with illustrations of the Church Booklet by Canon Arthur A Jones Illustrations by Jim Godfrey
B-SMAS/X/020
Date: 2010
Regarding names of people and places in Beaconsfield which hold key to the past.
O-BDHS/NC/028
Date: 07/05/1981
Newspaper cutting regarding a tour of the town as outlined in the pamphlet Take a Look at Beaconsfield
O-BDHS/NC/037
Date: 1980
Talk from John Tunstall, archaeologist, regarding visits to Egypt
O-BDHS/NC/045
Date: 1969;1971
15 assorted rocks from a BOTRA( Beaconsfield Old Town Residents’ Association) display case, some fossilized, some glazed and some appear to be smoothly hollowed out.
O-BOTRA/O/001
Date: 0000-2017
Luffield Priory of Benedictine Monks, Northamptonshire, linked to Buckinghamshire as shared estates. Mention of Buckingham, Silverstone Shalstone, Evershaw and Thornborough
O-BRS/B/003
Date: 1968
Luffield Priory of Benedictine Monks, Northamptonshire, linked to Buckinghamshire as shared estates. List of Foundation Charters. Robert Le Beaumont and Robert Le Bossu his son Earl of Leicester the Land owners. Enclosed in book Minutes of the 28th Annual General Meeting of the Buckinghamshire Record Society 7th June 1975.
O-BRS/B/004
Date: 1975
A calendar of the feet of fines for Buckinghamshire with an appendix 1179-1259. Feet of fines were fines for not providing dowries promised at the time of marriage.
O-BRS/B/012
Date: 1989
Court details including history of the Kings Bench a travelling justice court called the Superior Eyre, visiting twice a year, to High Wycombe in response to crimes in the area. Murders, rape and theft, could result in the death penalty. The Kings Bench only could uphold the death penalty. Details ...
O-BRS/B/016
Date: 1994
The records of the Manor Court that have survived as Court rolls are not the original but extracts. The original is believed to have been destroyed in 1381 in St Albans during the peasant revolt. The rolls are by the same person and kept at Cambridge University Library. Detail includes jurors, property transactions, tenant’s ...
O-BRS/B/022
Date: 2011
Detailed list of published records includes dates of publication and authors
O-BRS/N/002
Date: 01/04/1989
Newspaper article with photograph on closure and redevelopment of Glory Mill into houses, community buildings and industrial units. A new book called ‘Days of Glory’ by Alan Mead a past worker covers from 1066-1996
O-GM/NC/006
Date: 10/03/2000
Typed notes on the History of the Oxford Road including two maps of Elizabethan post roads (Gardiners Survey). Paragraphs on Origin of Beaconsfield, The Dry Hill, Coaching Days, Tipping, Highwaymen and milestones.
O-S/N/002
Date: 1950-2000
An illustrated book about the history of the Glory Mill; includes the history of papermaking before it was made in England (China), photographs, map of River Wye and the Life of Glory Mill
O-GM/B/002
Date: 2000
General information regarding Beaconsfield and places of interest around the district.
O-SBDC/B/001
Date: 1992