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
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
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]
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]
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
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]
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
The folk-lore behind maypole dancing
P-HC/A/110
Date: 1967
Beaconsfield an ‘upland settlement’ settled in probably 877 AD by Danes. Most of the settlement was in Burnham and that north of Ledborough Lane in Hertfordshire. As in Burnham not mentioned separately in the Domesday Book but as part of Burnham. Oldest name in town is Gregory who lived here in 1230-1240. A William de ...
P-HC/A/033
Date: [1970]
Pages 12 and 13. The Article with black and white photographs on the reverse has no title. Article details a lecture given by George Southam in 1948 detailing the High Street in Waddesdon but provides valuable detail of shops and properties at the time. Map included.
P-HC/A/136
Date: [1975]
2 Articles, black and white photographs and sketches page 10. Scheme set up in Wycombe where children could meet up and draw local buildings. This urban centre set up by the council enabled childen to draw local buildings and to be taken out of town as well. by Bob Curtis Second article details High Wycombe’s buildings ...
P-HC/A/190
Date: [1967]
Article about the 17th century little known poet Philip Ayres who was devoted to the Drake family at Shardeloes. He died in 1712. Born in 1638. He was a lierary scholar taken under the patronage of William Drake. He acted as secretary and tutor at Shardeloes. In his writing of the ledgers he describes life ...
P-HC/A/210
Date: [1960]
