General interest article concerning the alleged Discovery of Noah’s Ark. Detailed account of visit of Bucks Archaeological Society to Beaconsfield where they inspected the church, Burke’s tomb, Wallers tomb, derivation of the name of Beaconsfield (a clearing in beech woods). The society then had lunch at Wilton Park courtesy of Mr Du Pre. ...
P-D/NC/014
Date: 1883
Continuation of account of wedding of Mr Harry Webster Lawson to Miss Olive de Bathe including guests, details of dress and honeymoon in South of France. Letter to editor of Bucks Free Press dated January 16th 1884 regarding Gray and his connection to Stoke Poges. Article regarding Beaconsfield church bells dated 12/10/83 concerning ...
P-D/NC/018
Date: 1884
Three fragile newspaper pieces regarding the election of Mr George A Charsley as Beaconsfield Coroner. Details of the history of the post of Coroner, and the association of the “Coronership” with the Charsley family – his grandfather had been Coroner in 1821 and his father in 1855. His deputy was to be his ...
P-D/NC/019
Date: 1882
Newspaper article about the history of Highwayman in Beaconsfield and Gerrard Cross with a photograph of the Saracen’s Head.
P-D/NC/021
Date: 1980
Article on recollections of Beaconsfield charter Fair, by Kathleen Day. It gives a brief history of the fair from 1266-1930. Includes photographs on the reverse
P-D/NC/023
Date: 1980
A passage on the early years of Edmund Waller, extracted from ‘The History of Beaconsfield’ chapter 6.
P-EW/A/001
Date: [1900-1999]
Summary of Edmund Waller’s life [taken from ‘History of Beaconsfield’ edited by G.W. Taylor, as mentioned in P-EW/L/2]
P-EW/A/004
Date: [1900-1999]
Letter from Raymond Lea published in Bucks Life magazine relating to Hall Barn and the life and tomb of Edmund Waller.
P-EW/A/005
Date: 01 February 1970
Description of Waller’s connection with Coleshill and account of his life, in Buckinghamshire Countryside magazine.
P-EW/A/006
Date: [1950-1999]
Article describing the life and work of Edmund Waller. [Unknown publication.]
P-EW/A/007
Date: [1950-1999]
Article describing the life and work of Edmund Waller.
P-EW/A/008
Date: 01 January 1980
Article describing the life and work of Edmund Waller.
P-EW/A/009
Date: 01 May 1975
Oxford University Press article on Edmund Waller
P-EW/A/010
Date: 1995
Article includes a synopsis of Edmund Waller’s life, and his connection with Hall Barn.
P-EW/A/011
Date: 1976
Typescript of a talk giving a biography of Edmund Waller, written by John Safford and read by Andrew Farncombe. Issued by the Friends of St Mary and All Saints.
P-EW/A/012
Date: 25 May 2005
Chapters on ‘The Civil War’ and ‘Go, Lovely Rose!’, plus a selection of pages with images of Edmund Waller and Hall Barn. Includes pages 43-49, 54, 60, 68-75, 77.
P-EW/A/013
Date: 1976
Copy includes entries for all Wallers who matriculated at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, including the entry for Edmund Waller and his father, Robert Waller.
P-EW/A/014
Date: [1950-1980]
Article details Edmund Waller’s poetry written in devotion to Dorothea Sidney, whom he names as ‘Sacharissa’.
P-EW/A/015
Date: November 1978
Text of a talk given by John F. Safford to Beaconsfield Historical Society on Edmund Waller, with handwritten annotations.
P-EW/A/016
Date: 4 February 1995
Page extracted from ‘The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham’ by George Lipscomb, Volume 3 with notes and annotations.
P-EW/A/018
Date: [1990-2015]
Extracts include a photocopy of the ‘Pedigree of Waller of Beaconsfield’ from ‘The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham’ by George Lipscomb; a typed list of Wallers at Oxford and Cambridge Universities; extracted pages from the ‘Alumni Oxonienses’ and ‘Alumni Cantabrigienses’; photocopied images of a portrait of Edmund Waller, Hall Barn, Thomas Waller ...
P-EW/A/024
Date: [1990-2015]
Photocopied pages taken from ‘Middlesex Pedigrees’ and from the ‘Visitation of Buckinghamshire in 1634’ with mentions of the Waller family.
P-EW/A/026
Date: [1970-2000]