Mention of a pottery run by a mother and daughter, next to the White Hart on Aylesbury End in a listed 16th century building with a showroom at the front and pottery behind. The pottery pieces created are made using the Hagman technique. Article details the type of jewellery made.
P-HC/A/131
Date: [1970]
Indenture in old english detailing the sale of land in and around Beaconsfield in 1688. Land due to the death of Geo Gosnold. Land part of Waddenton House. Sold for £900
P-HC/A/035
Date: 1996
Details of Beaconsfields history. Name earliest recorded 1184 AD Bekensfeld – clearing in the beeches. Old english name probably in a period of relative calm when danish in the area about 880-920. It was felt that Alfred the Great may have created Bekensfeld after defeating the Danes closer to 900AD. beaconsfield chosen as light, well ...
P-HC/A/034
Date: 1980
Beaconsfield an ‘upland settlement’ settled in probably 877 AD by Danes. Most of the settlement was in Burnham and that north of Ledborough Lane in Hertfordshire. As in Burnham not mentioned separately in the Domesday Book but as part of Burnham. Oldest name in town is Gregory who lived here in 1230-1240. A William de ...
P-HC/A/033
Date: [1970]
Poem about Beaconsfield and the Old Town. Photograph on back is of an old ice house not from this area.
P-HC/A/032
Date: 1995
The town has had many cottage industries mainly artistically inclined. In 1922 a film school came to Beaconsfield It closed as the Beaconsfield Film Studio in 1967. Concern grew as to the lack of study areas for film and it was bought in 1969-1970. In 1971 it became the National Film School. Early on silent ...
P-HC/A/030
Date: 1981
Article including pictures details the motorway opening, continuing amount of cars going through the Old Town but also the development of the New Town for shopping which has benefitted the Old Town. Windsor End is also much quieter, no longer going to Slough. Details of various buildings in the Old Town are mentioned
P-HC/A/031
Date: [1974]
Details of the cherry industry around Beaconsfield. Types called ‘caroons’. Made lovely cherry pies.Mid June to erly August cherry pickers worked from dawn to dusk to collect cherries. In 1906 Seeleys farm employed up to 60 pickers. Cherries were loaded into carts to the new station Ladders used were wider at the bottom and narrowed ...
P-HC/A/028
Date: 1980
Article about the Inns of Beaconsfield. Fast coaches known as flyers were pulled by 4 horses and took 4 hours between London and Beaconsfield and about 2 hours on to Oxford. Detail is about the Inns including The Saracens and the story of Richard the Lionheart who got so drunk he smashed up the pub ...
P-HC/A/027
Date: 1980
Account of Mr Lea travelling through Beaconsfield Old Town at various times of the century. Before the motorway and after it. Various changes are noted.
P-HC/A/026
Date: [1982]
Article with photographs of the church, Saracens Head and Georgian buildings in London Road
P-HC/A/025
Date: [1982]
The Earl of Beaconsfield is demolished for a Waitrose store. The Earl originally The Railway Hotel was built in 1910. It changed its name due to new owners Ind Coope Benkins. Changes in the New Town are listed. Land opposite between Barings Road and Reynolds Road is cleared and business buildings were built. Grove House ...
P-HC/A/024
Date: 1982