Describes how the Chiltern Shakespeare Company undertakes Shakesperean productions in the grounds of Hall Barn and advertises the forthcoming production of The Merchant of Venice
B-HB/A/012
Date: c.1996
Cutting talks about the history of Hall Barn, including its use as a store for the Wallace Collection during World War 2 and its use as a setting for filming. The cutting includes a photograph of Christopher Plummer outside Hall Barn in the 1968 film ‘Nobody Runs Forever’.
B-HB/NC/018
Date: 06 February 2003
Cutting describes the history of Hall Barn focusing on the house parties that were held and the visitors who came to stay on the estate.
B-HB/NC/019
Date: 19 February 2015
Interview of Jenefer Farncombe by Pat Butler
B-HB/A/014
Date: 2001
Account of the life and times of Edmund Waller, 1606-1687
B-HB/B/002
Date: 1950-1980
Article and photograph regarding Anne Waller and her purchase of Hall Barn, Wilton Park and Gregories.
B-HB/NC/021
Date: 27 March 2014
Photograph and article about Hall Barn Lodge
B-HB/NC/022
Date: 1990
Framed copy of Waller coat of arms
B-HB/R/004
Date: 1600-2018
Article describing Edmund Waller, as the builder of Hall Barn, and subsequent changes that were made to the building and the grounds, including landscaping by Robert Bridgeman and John Aislabie, and buildings created by Colin Campbell. It also describes changes made by Sir Gore Ouseley in the nineteenth century and alterations that were made in ...
B-HB/A/002
Date: 11 September 1994
The pages include a description of various photographic prints of Hall Barn, and copies of the images.
B-HB/A/004
Date: 1980-2000
Details, including photographs, of the design and building of the house by Edmund Waller in the manner of Versailles, after his return from exile in 1651.
B-HB/A/007
Date: 20 March 1942
Details, including photographs of the garden and Grove, originally laid out by Edmund Waller and is the earliest example in England of the Versailles style. His grandson and John Aislabie made additions 1713-30.
B-HB/A/008
Date: 27 March 1942
Details of the additions including photographs made by Sir Gore Ousely in 1832 and the acquisition of Hall Barn by Sir E. Lawson, later Lord Burnham, in 1882.
B-HB/A/009
Date: 03 April 1942
Includes brief history of Hall Barn, for The Beaconsfield Society news-sheet, with added notes from Kathleen Day
B-HB/A/010
Date: 1970-1972
Report descibing the sale of the contents at Hall Barn to raise money to fund the reduction of size of the house to the original footprint of the building.
B-HB/A/011
Date: 01 December 1969
Letter relates to the date of the building of Hall Barn and academic arguments about the timescales involved.
B-HB/L/003
Date: 25 May 1993
Letter relates to the date of the building of Hall Barn and academic arguments about the timescales involved.
B-HB/L/004
Date: 19 November 1998
Extracted pages from the report of Beaconsfield Manor, Beaconsfield Deeds and general survey on behalf of Lord Burnham. Pages 1-3 and 6 of report included.
B-HB/N/002
Date: 16 October 1985
Notes describe records related to the house and contents, the estate, maps and manorial documents.
B-HB/N/004
Date: 1987-1999
Notes taken from ‘Life in the English Country House’ by Mark Girouard
B-HB/N/005
Date: 1900-1999
Includes a summary of the history of the house and its inhabitants through the time, and an interview with Lady Burnham.
B-HB/NC/001
Date: 24 April 1987
Includes an aerial photograph of Hall Barn by ‘pilot and broadcaster’ David Moreau with accompanying description and brief history.
B-HB/NC/002
Date: 9 March 1994
Article on Edmund Waller’s life and the building of Hall Barn, as well as Lord and Lady Burnham, the subsequent owners of the property.
B-HB/NC/003
Date: 13 September 1979
Article is a review of the book ‘Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden’ by Peter Willis, and includes a copy of an engraving of gardeners rolling the lawn at Hall Barn by Woollett, 1760, and concerns gardens of large estates but makes no mention of Hall Barn in the article.
B-HB/NC/006
Date: 14 August 1978
