Two sided article detailing with sketch map and photograph the route of the Grand Union Canal. Article details the path from the Aylesbury Arm and the Ship pub. Details like the bridge number plates are discussed. Smooth cast iron corner plates for the smooth passage of ropes. Puttenham bridge way marker stone. The sixteen locks ...
P-HC/A/157
Date: [1990]
Two sides of details about wall paintings from the medieval period in churches. 80% of wall paintings have now gone however there is still a fair representation of each type. Paintings were for two reasons to teach and be devotional. There are four categoriesof medieval church paintings The Bible story, single figurs of saints, lives ...
P-HC/A/156
Date: 1968
Three sides of article detailing the fire brigade and its changes over the years. The risk of fire was very great. Fighting fire equipment was minimal. In Oxford, Aylesbury and Abingdon the livery companies kept buckets of water with ladders and squirters available. The Great Fire of London led to the development of fire insurance ...
P-HC/A/155
Date: 1968
Article detailing the meanings of pub signs. Details of The Walnut Tree, the Old White Swan, The Bull Inn, The Earl Howe, The Disraeli, The Red Lion, The Saracens Head, The Plough, The Bricklayers, The Kings Head, Cross Keys etc are all mentioned and their context.
P-HC/A/154
Date: [c2005]
Rough map with detail of windmills in Buckinghamshire. Detail mentions the two mills in Brill and Pitstone. These mills are of older design. The smock mill at Lacey green built in 1650, the oldest of its kind in England as well as the fine tower mill at Quainton are examples of later mills.
P-HC/A/153
Date: 1967
Black and white picture of flowers on the banks of the River Wye in front of the chapel and old houses in High Wycombe
P-HC/A/152
Date: [1970]
Black and white photograph of the countryside at West Wycombe.
P-HC/A/151
Date: [2000]
Reproduction of a black and white photograph of a painting of Edmund Burke painted by Joshua Reynolds engraved by H.Robinson with Edmund Burkes signature at the bottom. On the reverse details of Oldbury, a 4/5 bedroom house in Knotty Green being sold by Hamnett Raffety for £13,950.
P-HC/A/150
Date: [1950]
Photograph looking over the churchyrd fence at the war memorial and the Four Ends roundabout with the start of the north side of London End.
P-HC/A/149
Date: [c1975]
Colour picture showing the pubs, and lock up in Aylesbury End west side, small inset photograph is present at lower right corner.
P-HC/A/148
Date: 1998
Colour picture of the church, St Mary’s in Beaconsfield Old Town. The Old Rectory is seen on the left of the graveyard and church on the path going to Wycombe End
P-HC/A/147
Date: 1979
Colour photograph of road between Forty green and Holtspur looking south to north after driving under the railway bridge. Note footpath to right which leads into Hogback Wood.
P-HC/A/146
Date: [1999]