Includes information on the history and route of this road and its surroundings on its 40 mile path.
P-LH/N/004
Date: c1960
Includes information on the history and route on this road and surroundings on its 25 1/2 mile paths.
P-LH/N/005
Date: c1960
Handwritten notes on the history of Wilton Park from Neolithic man to the Du Pre family
P-ATay/N/002
Date: c1980
Typed notes on the outline of a book on the history of Beaconsfield, to be published by the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society. The notes list contents for 15 chapters of the book with points to be further investigated. There are two copies of these notes.
P-ATay/N/013
Date: 1975
Typed notes outlining suggestions of topics to be covered in a published history of Beaconsfield. Also contains a series of handwritten amendments.
P-ATay/N/014
Date: 1960
Reproduced article from the Beaconsfield Parish Magazine about a discovery of a stone age implement made by A Day just north of Knotty Green
P-ATay/R/001
Date: 1923
Collection of articles, letters and research notes etc. relating to Overs Farm.
F030
Date: 1828-2001
Reproductions of letters from A Taylor to Mr. Seymour regarding articles that A Taylor has written on the history of Beaconsfield.
P-ATay/R/003
Date: 1981
Hand written notes as to Celtic origin of Overs Farm name and history of Overs farm. Coloured in map showing site 1993. On reverse two photographs showing a row of Elm trees before and after felling following Dutch elm disease 1970’s and 1996 including Miss Pitchers nephew.
F030/N/001
Date: c1996
Research notes include a reference to the Celtic name of Bullocks Farm. There are also typed notes about water supply at the small holding. Photograph of farmhouse taken in 1993. A small ordnance survey map of the remaining two farm cottages.
F030/N/003
Date: [1990-1993]
1 article Curzon Avenue, Ledborough Lane, Warwick Road, The Railway Hotel and Roundabout. Also mentions Trade Tokens.
P-TFL/R/046
Date: 1929
Notes on Stone Age Man in Beaconsfield: Discovery of hand-axe just north of Knotty Green. Notes on history of the site of the Lloyds Bank building in the old town, the Reading Room, Wycombe End Cottages, Factory Yard, the Old Meeting House, and the Malthouse
P-D/N/028
Date: 1923
Collection of articles, letters, research notes etc. extracted from various sources and passed to the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society relating to Thomas Frederick Lane
P-TFL
Date: 1900-1930
Collection of articles, letters and research notes etc. relating to Arthur Taylor
P-ATay
Date: 1922-2000
Collection of articles, photographs, letters and research notes etc. relating to Leslie Horrocks.
P-LH
Date: 1900-2001
A draft for the forward for the Souvenir Programme which includes extracts from a book on the History of Beaconsfield. It has a section on the Fair.
E-CF/A/003
Date: 1969
Preface notes include Beaconsfield in ‘Roman Times, the Early Middle Ages, and the Fair”
E-CF/N/002
Date: c1969
Leaflet about wood pastures at Burnham Beeches. (corporation of London)Articles on pollarding, history and present management. Contact details
B-BB/B/002
Date: 1984
Article about the encroachment of the M40. Good detailed history of Bulstrode Park
B-Bu/A/005
Date: 1968
Collection of articles, letters, research notes etc extracted from various sources and passed to the Beaconsfield and District Historical Society relating to Burnham Beeches
B-BB
Date: 1920-2010
The booklet is an interim report with photographs, maps and diagrams illustrating the archaeological finds along part of the route of the M40
B-M40/B/002
Date: 1973
Draft article charts the history of icehouses from 2000BCE to their demise in the 1920s. The lost icehouse is in Walkwood Beaconsfield.
B-IH/A/003
Date: c2000
Article charts the history of icehouses from 2000BC to their demise in the 1920’s. The lost icehouse is mentioned in Walkwood. There are 2 photographs.
B-IH/R/003
Date: 2003
Talk from John Tunstall, archaeologist, regarding visits to Egypt
O-BDHS/NC/045
Date: 1969;1971
