The folk-lore behind maypole dancing
P-HC/A/110
Date: 1967
A collection of notes, newspaper cuttings, magazine articles, booklets and extracts from books referring to the Chalfont Hoard stored within an envelope.
P-PB/B/018
Date: [1990-2000]
Article details the battles from the 6th century between the Anglo Saxons and the Danes. Anglo Saxons arrived in about 600AD . Danes then attacked from the south east and took over in about 800-900AD. The roman roads were used for transport but also enabled hiding places from attackers. In 999AD the English under Edward ...
P-HC/A/067
Date: [1970]
Type-written description of Grimm’s Ditch with directions for a walk along it
G-Bucks/D/001
Date: [2000]
Article about the investigation of the line of a new water mains and possible archaelogical remains. Between Hedsor and Windsor Hill nothing of historical importance was found. However between Hedsor and Well End numerous artefacts were recoverd from many different periods as well as footings of a building (the latter damaged by the caterpillar tracked ...
P-HC/A/224
Date: [1990]
Collection of articles, letters, research notes etc extracted from various sources and passed to the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society relating to Bulstrode Park
B-Bu
Date: 1962-2010
Collection of articles, letters, research notes etc extracted from various sources and passed to the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society relating to Ice Houses.
B-IH
Date: 2000-2004
Collection of articles, letters and research notes etc, relating to the M40 extracted from various sources and passed to the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society.
B-M40
Date: 1934-2015
Article reviews local church buildings and changes over time. Little Missenden, High Wycombe and Penn churches are included. All had square towers. Flint and rubble would have been covered with plaster or lime-washed in the past but now exposed. Local churches eg at Wycombe have been rebuilt in this case in the 13th century. Little ...
P-HC/A/239
Date: [1980]
Details of the Roman Road running South East from Dorchester with a detailed map – taken from CBA 9, Newsletter No 8
G-RR/A/006
Date: 1977
Collection of articles, letters and research notes etc, relating to the Buckinghamshire Record Society, extracted from various sources and passed to the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society.
O-BRS
Date: 1947-2021
Collection of articles, letters and research notes etc. relating to Wiggins Teape.
O-WT
Date: 1962-2000
The upright sepulchral Stele limestone stone was part of a collection by Lord Grenfell in 1904. He called the extension to the house Butlers Court inherited from his brother ‘ his museum’. Most items went with him when he sold to Francis Reckitt in 1912. However this stone with Egyptian writing was ...
P-PB/N/123
Date: 2000
Collection of articles, letters, research notes etc. extracted from various sources and passed to the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society relating to General Buckinghamshire (Bucks)
G-Bucks
Date: 1215-2023
Situated in Taplow Village at the site of an Anglo Saxon settlements. Burial mounds exist from 590-610AD. Details are given of the building in 1751 until the present day. The MP Grenfells, Pascoe bought Taplow House in 1794. Leaflet reveals Taplow House gifted by James 1st to the first governor of Virginia, ,Mr Hampson. many ...
P-PB/N/082
Date: c2000
Collection of articles, letters, research notes etc, extracted from various sources and passed to the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society relating to Inns
G-I
Date: 1796-2000
Collection of articles, letters, research notes etc extracted from various sources and passed to the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society relating to St Mary and All Saints Church
B-SMAS
Date: 1050-2023
The programme is for the Gala 50th production of The Sleeping Prince, directed by Bernard Cane.
O-NTG/B/001
Date: [1965-1970]