This chapter entitled ‘Burke’s Memorial’ includes extracts from a book of cuttings about the memorial to Edmund Burke erected in the Beaconsfield Parish Church in 1898.
P-D/A/001
Date: 1990
Pamphlet of printed from “Records of Bucks” Vol xx, part 4, 1978 covering the role of communities in Buckinghamshire during World War 1, also an partial article on Windmills
P-D/B/001
Date: 1978
Brief history of St Mary’s church , details of The Friends of St Mary’s, and of the Development Fund.
P-D/B/002
Date: 2000
Official programme with details of flower displays in St Mary and All Saints Church, in aid of the Belfry Appeal; back page has information on the tower and bells.
P-D/B/004
Date: 1977
Booklet covering historical aspects of the whole of Buckinghamshire
P-D/B/005
Date: c1960
Personal recollections of Old Beaconsfield by Kathleen Day. Gives a history of Old Beaconsfield from 1884-1969. Also gives information on Beaconsfield residents such as G.K. Chesterton.
P-D/B/006
Date: 1969
Personal recollections of Old Beaconsfield by Kathleen Day. Gives a history of Old Beaconsfield from 1884-1969. Also gives information on Beaconsfield residents such as G.K. Chesterton.
P-D/B/007
Date: 1986
Personal recollections of Old Beaconsfield by Kathleen Day. Gives a personal history of Old Beaconsfield, including shops, literary figures, transport and more.
P-D/B/008
Date: 1990
A Hulburn Series Copy Book containing numerous instances of Augustus Day’s handwriting in 1878
P-D/B/010
Date: c1878
Contains a series of handwritten essays on historical events in Beaconsfield and People; for instance Edmund Burke. Also a recipe for ‘A Good Chutney’
P-D/B/014
Date: c1870
A small blank notebook owned by F. J. Day. Has an advert for Aerated Waters on the back; with a picture of Queen Victoria on the front.
P-D/B/016
Date: c1900
Notes on the Day family with names, birth dates and death dates. Goes back as far as her Grandfather Uriah Day
P-D/D/001
Date: c2001
Names of 71 exhibitors for the Festival of Flowers; part of Beaconsfield’s 700th Fair and Festival 1269-1969
P-D/D/002
Date: 1969
An application form to be registered as a Student Associate of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain by Aimee Kathleen Day.
P-D/D/005
Date: 1928
A landscape painting of trees and fields. A title on the back reads, ‘From Window at Moccas(?)’
P-D/D/015
Date: 1877
Letters requesting information about the genealogy of Thomas, Michael, John Edgerley and Rebecca Halowell. One dated November 1980 and one February 1981.
P-D/L/002
Date: 1980-1981
Notes for a talk on the latter half of Victorian era in Beaconsfield 1860- 1906
P-D/N/001
Date: 1981
Notes on Post Office Directory of 1869, giving information on tradesmen (names, trades and addresses) in Beaconsfield. Also some private individuals such as the rector, the Du Pres, and John Hargreaves of Hall Barn Park, Edmund Waller. Other information such as postal delivery times, key annual dates and population in 1861 noted as 1,662
P-D/N/002
Date: c1970
Short description of stage coach services through and lodgings in Beaconsfield, describing services between London and Oxford in 1669, 1816 and 1834. Mentions notorious highwayman Claude Duval, including robbery of £100 from a farmer at the Crown Inn.
P-D/N/003
Date: c1970
Brief history of horse-drawn coaching days and transport in Beaconsfield from 1667 until around the coming of the railway in 1906. Describes some services, mention of Jack Shrimpton, the highwayman, and tale of a horse breaking loose and running through building that was later the Broadway Hotel (now part of the Crazy Bear Hotel). Final ...
P-D/N/004
Date: c1970
Notes based on the memories of people who lived in Beaconsfield ‘during the last 100 years’, plus various accounts of trades people, types of traffic through Beaconsfield including the coming of the railway in 1906, recreational facilities for young people in 1897, entertainments and events in town taken from old copies of Parish Magazines ...
P-D/N/005
Date: c1970
Detailed descriptions of deliveries in Old Beaconsfield pre-motor car. Covers postmen, milkmen, and bakers’ rounds.
P-D/N/007
Date: c1990
Descriptions of insurance for Henry Turrell carpenter, Mary Watson, Stephen Woodbridge, Barber and Perukemaker
P-D/N/011
Date: c1980
Incomplete notes covering the origins of Beaconsfield Old Town, starting with the Saxon tribes.
P-D/N/013
Date: 26-Feb-80