1 article Curzon Avenue, Ledborough Lane, Warwick Road, The Railway Hotel and Roundabout. Also mentions Trade Tokens.
P-TFL/R/046
Date: 1929
Incomplete notes covering the origins of Beaconsfield Old Town, starting with the Saxon tribes.
P-D/N/013
Date: 26-Feb-80
Describes origins of Beaconsfield in Saxon times and at the time of the Domesday Book, reasons for growth, such as markets and fairs, with population and housing numbers in 1811 Mention of the estates of Hall Barn, Wilton Park and Butlers Court, and adjoining farmlands. Population ‘explosion’ caused by arrival of railway in 1906, and ...
P-D/N/017
Date: 01/03/1972
Notes on Stone Age Man in Beaconsfield: Discovery of hand-axe just north of Knotty Green. Notes on history of the site of the Lloyds Bank building in the old town, the Reading Room, Wycombe End Cottages, Factory Yard, the Old Meeting House, and the Malthouse
P-D/N/028
Date: 1923
Collection of articles, letters, research notes etc. extracted from various sources and passed to the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society relating to Thomas Frederick Lane
P-TFL
Date: 1900-1930
Collection of articles, letters and research notes etc. relating to Arthur Taylor
P-ATay
Date: 1922-2000
Collection of articles, photographs, letters and research notes etc. relating to Leslie Horrocks.
P-LH
Date: 1900-2001
Collection of articles, letters and research notes etc. relating to Walks
E-W
Date: 1968-2002
A draft for the forward for the Souvenir Programme which includes extracts from a book on the History of Beaconsfield. It has a section on the Fair.
E-CF/A/003
Date: 1969
Preface notes include Beaconsfield in ‘Roman Times, the Early Middle Ages, and the Fair”
E-CF/N/002
Date: c1969
Article about the custom of walking the parish boundaries, its history and the fact that it is being revived at Beaconsfield. Includes photographs
E-W/A/001
Date: 1968
Leaflet about wood pastures at Burnham Beeches. (corporation of London)Articles on pollarding, history and present management. Contact details
B-BB/B/002
Date: 1984
Article about the encroachment of the M40. Good detailed history of Bulstrode Park
B-Bu/A/005
Date: 1968
Collection of articles, letters, research notes etc extracted from various sources and passed to the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society relating to Burnham Beeches
B-BB
Date: 1920-2010
The booklet is an interim report with photographs, maps and diagrams illustrating the archaeological finds along part of the route of the M40
B-M40/B/002
Date: 1973
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
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
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
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
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
General information regarding Beaconsfield and places of interest around the district.
O-SBDC/B/001
Date: 1992
Brochure of 100 pages detailing events during the Festival as well as local history articles. Supported by local companies and shops.
B-SMAS/X/040
Date: 2018