Hand drawn annotated map of Beaconsfield and surroundings showing details of where early visitors and settlers left their mark ; includes description of the “Viatores”.
P-HC/MP/015
Date: 1970
Showing overall routes of Roman Roads that cross South East Buckinghamshire, based on Ordnance Survey maps Scale 1:25,000.
P-HC/MP/056
Date: c1961
Article about Bekonscot, Its start by Roland Callingham opening in 1929 (completed in 1934)- 1979 Golden Jubilee. Proceeds go to charity £300,000 raised by 1979. More popular than Waddesdon Manor the most visited National Trust property in Bucks. Visited by the 8year old Queen Elizabeth with her mother in April 1934. Close association with the ...
P-HC/A/020
Date: 1979
Notes on his life from 1804-1881. He was jewish but had all his children baptised! after falling out with the synagogue. He lost 2 by-elections. He was a radical. He published articles and books many political. He married a friends widow in 1839 just before being elected to Shrewsbury as MP. He was a conservative. ...
P-HC/A/050
Date: [2010]
7 sheets and a photocopy of sheet 1 details restoration of the 5 listed monuments and graves in St Mary and All Saints Church. Sketches and details of materials incuded. Turrell Tomb, Waller Tomb, Smith Tomb, Hollis and Anthony Family Tomb,
P-HC/A/054
Date: 1989
Origins of Inn Signs on 2 sheets. Detail of signs originally from Roman times. After the Great Fire of London signs had to be fixed to walls. Numbering of houses came in during the 19th century. Details of specific sugns mentioned.
P-HC/A/181
Date: 1967
page 24 of 2 page article and photographs describing the demand for improved lighting and policing in the 1830’s in High Wycombe. Permission was given by George III via the Paving and Lighting Commission. This commission was very powerful and often conflicted with the council. Lighting improved greatly from 2 to 27 lights over a ...
P-HC/A/189
Date: [1960]
Mention of a pottery run by a mother and daughter, next to the White Hart on Aylesbury End in a listed 16th century building with a showroom at the front and pottery behind. The pottery pieces created are made using the Hagman technique. Article details the type of jewellery made.
P-HC/A/131
Date: [1970]
Official photograph of members of the Beaconsfield Town Council . On reverse article detailing a brief note of the renovation of St Marys Church 1869 and the development of the new Town after 1906 and the railway. Holtspur’s development after the second world war.
P-HC/A/132
Date: [2000]
2 articles relating to Wendover and a cottage bequeathed to Anne Boleyn by Henry VIII at the time of her wedding. Articles in the newspaper stuck together. Photographs included as well as one on the unchanging face of Wendover.
P-HC/A/133
Date: [1950]
Three articles stuck on to each other and a piece of A4 paper. They detail John Hampden and his involvement with battling Charles I in the Battle of Aylesbury in 1642 where Prince Rupert and his troups were chased away by Balfour and Hampdens armies. He died in 1643 in the Battle of Chalgrove Field ...
P-HC/A/134
Date: [1970]
List and description of slides for Millennium Play slide show to be held on Sunday 27th February 2000 at St Mary’s School
P-HC/N/048
Date: 2000
The last working water mill on the Rye. It marks the beginning of the old town of Wycombe looking across the Rye meadows. The mill dates from the 16th-17th century. The mill site part of Panells or la Pennell in 1166 on the estate of Roger Pinel, a Crown Tenant of Henry II. the mill ...
P-HC/A/159
Date: 1967
Article details the proposed canal development and opposition to its creation by numerous people even by the Dean and Chapter of St Pauls Cathedral. The Thames at this point flooded regularly, and had low water during the summer. The new canal would halve the journey time along the tortuous Thames. The canal was never built ...
P-HC/A/160
Date: 1968
4 sheets showing different versions of plans of Pann Mill for sale in 1900.
P-HC/A/158
Date: 1900
2 articles with photographs. One about Ayles bury End and how it was called this because it was the route from Windsor to Aylesbury. The second Hall Barn Lodge asks about the origin of the ornate Gate house. On reverse is a copy of a sketch from before the 1889 renovations of St Marys Church
P-HC/A/090
Date: [1950-2000]
Two copies of a photograph of Treadaway Hill one small and one large
P-HC/R/027
Date: [1960-1980]
Aerial view of the ‘four ends’ crossroads. Church in the right foreground.
P-HC/A/060
Date: 1974
Three sides of an article describing a drive through Buckinghamshire from Aylesbury through the Vale, including Haddenham, Princes Risborough into the Chilterns by the smock mill at Lacey Green , through the Hampdens, Great and Little Missenden and the Lee, finally descending to Aston Clinton, Halton, Weston Turville and back to Aylesbury. there are many ...
P-HC/A/127
Date: [1990]
Copy of information on residents of Beaconsfield, Wooburn, Loudwater and Penn plus information on place names of Beaconsfield, Wooburn, Chipping High and West Wycombe and Chipping Wycombe.
P-HC/R/091
Date: [1990-2010]
Details of Beaconsfields history. Name earliest recorded 1184 AD Bekensfeld – clearing in the beeches. Old english name probably in a period of relative calm when danish in the area about 880-920. It was felt that Alfred the Great may have created Bekensfeld after defeating the Danes closer to 900AD. beaconsfield chosen as light, well ...
P-HC/A/034
Date: 1980
The history of brickmaking in Bucks and describes the processes involved.
P-HC/A/109
Date: 1967
