Letter sent by Caroline Stevenson to Beaconsfield Historical Society accompanying the booklet which she thinks belonged to her mother. Booklet was sent from Australia.
E-AD/L/001
Date: 2022
Booklet relating to The Great Floral Fete on Wednesday June 26th 1912. Gives Aims, Organisation, plea for assistance and lists of names of Grand Council and sub-committees.
E-AD/B/001
Date: 1912
Books and pamphlets relating to Alexandra Day
E-AD/B
Article of 2 pages about West Wycombe. A village that has remained in the past. Sir Francis Dashwoods Mausoleum is noted with its gold-painted ball. He lived at West Wycombe Park in the 18th century. he served as Post master General and set up the Hell Fire Club. The Hell-Fire Club members were leading English ...
P-HC/A/205
Date: [1980]
Article with black and white photographs. The Mausoleum, West Wycombe, Bisham Abbey, Berkshire and The Gothic Temple, Stowe, Buckinghamshire. Details and photographs of these three monuments.
P-HC/A/204
Date: [1950]
Article with black and white photograph. Article details Benjamin Disraeli’s life. His politics, his career and his marriage. He bought Hughenden estate after he had represented Buckinghamshire in 1847 in Parliament. He retired and looked at the primroses in his Hughenden Estate. The Primrose League was formed in 1883 to remember him and furthering patriotic ...
P-HC/A/203
Date: [1960]
Collection of articles, photographs, items, books and newspaper cuttings relating to Alexandra Day.
E-AD
Date: 1912
Isaac D’Israeli was Benjamin Disraelis’ father. He imported Italian products. He prospered in trade and was a stockbroker. He was born in 1766 in London and died in 1816. He had a very privileged background. He read from a very early age and was renowned for his learning and prodigious literary output. He had a ...
P-HC/A/202
Date: [1990]
Overview of some of the details of WW1 involvement by places in Buckinghamshire. Includes Cliveden, Halton, Denham, High Wycombe, Whiteleaf Hill practice trenches, memories and memorials.
E-WW1C/D/007
Date: 2018
2 sheets. Article about a house in Priory Avenue built around 1700 remodelled in 1778, the building noted by Nikolaus Pevsner. The property history is detailed including its building on Wycombe Rectory land claimed after the dissolution of the exisiting monastery by Henry VIII. Bought as a modest farmhouse by Samuel Wells 1st. Samuel Wells ...
P-HC/A/201
Date: [2000]
Details of how to become a Digital Champion published by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Includes contact details.
E-WW1C/D/006
Date: 2018