Original documents relating to Harriet Timms
P-HT/D
Date: 1928-1994
Typescript of memoirs of Mrs Harriet Timms. Describes her life in Beaconsfield, including her childhood with her aunt and uncle (her aunt was a launderess at Wilton Park), her relationship with the DuPre family, the Grenfell family and the Lawson family, her marriage and children, Queen Victoria’s Silver Jubilee (1862) and her visit to the ...
P-HT/D/001
Date: 1928
Shortened form of memoirs of Harriet Timms, compiled out of the full typescript by Elizabeth Scott-Taggart for exhibition at the Annual General Meeting of the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society in April 1994
P-HT/D/002
Date: 1994
Handwritten notes by Kathleen Day about Mrs Timms and life in Beaconsfield in the 1920s. It gives details about where she lived [21 Aylesbury End], what she wore, who she met and her dealings with local shopkeepers.
P-HT/N/001
Date: March 1994
Notes include descriptions of the memoirs of Harriet Timms, who was born in 1850, and her descriptions of life in Beaconsfield and the other characters who lived around her. She started writing her memoirs on 24th December 1928.
P-HT/N/002
Date: 1990-2010
A cutting from the Buckinghamshire Advertiser with information about Harriet Timms, as well as shops and businesses in Aylesbury End, including: A H Tripp & Sons Ltd, Days Stores, Mr Matthews the cobbler, Warrens’ shop, Blue Dragon Dry Cleaners, the blacksmith’s cottage and forge, The Old Hare and Star public houses, the Beaconsfield Advisory Centre ...
P-HT/NC/001
Date: 19 April 1989
Three copies of the memoirs of Mrs Harriet Timms. Photocopy of P-HT/D/001
P-HT/R/001
Date: [1990-2010]
Photo identifies Harriet Timms’ cottage. Also shows part of Hall Barn estate office and inns on west side of Aylesbury End.
P-HT/R/002
Date: 1972
Black and white photographs of Harriet Timms and family
P-HT/Ph
Date: 1900-1930
Portrait photograph showing Harriet Timms in her garden in Aylesbury End, Beaconsfield
P-HT/Ph/001
Date: 1900-1930
Portrait photograph of Harriet Timms with Harry Leach, her grandson and son of Isabel Leach (nee Timms) eldest daughter of Harriet and William Timms. Isabel is mentioned in Harriet’s memoirs.
P-HT/Ph/002
Date: 1900-1930
Portrait photograph of Isabel Leach, daughter of Harriet Timms and mother of Harry Leach.
P-HT/Ph/003
Date: 1920-1940