A framed declaration of the appointment of Caledon George Du Pre, Cornet & Sub-Lieutenant to Life Guards. There are two seals – one fixed on the document and one loose.
P-DP/D/005
Date: 1826
Photograph of Burkes Lodge which has changed little since its construction. Photograph taken to update the Then and Now Boards in 2023
P-TomS/Ph/016
Date: 2023
Beaconsfield Local Directory Edition 122
O-LD/B/122
Date: 2023
Edition 121 – November 2023
O-LD/B/121
Date: 2023
The engraving was created by George Vertue in 1727 from a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller in 1684. A sentence in Latin on the engraving indicates it was a gift by Peter Burke of the Inner Temple. On loan from St Mary and All Saints Church.
P-EW/Ph/011
Date: 1727
This is an engraved portrait of Edmund Burke with inscription below. The engraving has been taken from an original painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds created in 1776. Written inscription in ink states ‘Presented to the Rectory Beaconsfield 7th May 1856 by Peter Burke of the Inner Temple’. On loan from St Mary and All Saints ...
P-EBu/Ph/079
Date: 1792
Newsagent in Wycombe End photographed by Tom Sturdy in 2023 to update photograph on Society Boards.
P-TomS/Ph/015
Date: 2023
Hiya Bucks for December 2023
O-HB/B/119
Date: 2023
Photograph of the front of the Old Town Garage now Dunlops. Accessed through the gates and arch to workshops beyond. Red Kite Kitchens is next door.
P-TomS/Ph/014
Date: 2023
Hiya Bucks for November 2023
O-HB/B/118
Date: 2023
The book, which is oversized, gives a history of the turnpikes in the South of England with illustrations of carts, horse drawn carriages plus various documents and drawings.
B-TR/B/001
Date: 1970