The museum is pleased to publish an annual booklet called The Haddenham Chronicles. The Chronicles were begun in 2006 and each edition is packed with a wealth of interesting information. Over thirty contributors have written articles for the series on a variety of local history topics.
Issue 20 was published in November 2023 to coincide with our 25th anniversary and is on sale at Blooming Fruity (6 Banks Rd, Haddenham, Aylesbury HP17 8ED).
All issues of the Chronicles are on sale in the museum (Tuesday mornings and Sunday afternoons - reopening on Sunday 3 March 2024).
For further information, please contact Steve Sharp (Tel: (01844) 290597 email: stephsharp@aol.com)
An article about the Haddenham Feast from the first issue and an article about The Rochester Connection from the second issue are reproduced here.
INDEX
Index to The Haddenham Chronicles issues 1 to 20 |
Issue |
Page |
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1086 The people of Haddenham in 1086 |
4 |
2 |
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1229 Hugh of Haddenham: the reluctant knight |
19 |
4 |
|
1275 The day that Justice came to Grove End |
11 |
2 |
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1524 What happened in Haddenham in 1524 |
5 |
6 |
|
1598 Will of Robert Rose, Farmer – Grenville Manor |
16 |
4 |
|
15th Century Fear in the Fifteen Century |
11 |
7 |
|
16th Century Democracy in Haddenham |
18 |
16 |
|
1670 Kingston Blount Fire Collection |
16 |
6 |
|
1712, Haddenham in 1712 |
13 |
2 |
|
1764 Overseer's Disbursements – William Clarks |
16 |
8 |
|
1770 Map Jefferys map published in 1770 |
1 |
13 |
|
1820 Map Pre-enclosure agricultural strips |
15 |
27 |
|
1831 Orchard Riot – Banks Road/Churchway |
14 |
34 |
|
1851 Haddenham in 1851 – Census records |
1 |
28 |
|
1851 Who believed what in 1851 – Religious Census |
9 |
32 |
|
19th Century News from the. Jackson’s Oxford Journal |
11 |
20 |
|
1905 Postcard Map |
5 |
48 |
|
1908 The Franklin Estate Sale of 1908 |
16 |
48 |
|
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Accidents, Wartime, around Haddenham |
6 |
52 |
|
Architecture of the Parish Church of St Mary - The West Tower |
18 |
5 |
|
Adnum as spoke- Local words and pronunciations |
7 |
49 |
|
Aftermath (of the Enclosure) |
12 |
23 |
|
Alms corn charity |
3 |
31 |
|
Alms corn charity |
16 |
60 |
|
Airfield Oddities |
4 |
53 |
|
Airtech |
4 |
53 |
|
American Slave Trade - Abolition Meeting at Haddenham |
18 |
42 |
|
Amy Johnson was here |
16 |
55 |
|
Anglo-Saxon Skeleton found at the Grove (also see 18 p4) |
20 |
4 |
|
Appraising Grazing, Before the Enclosure |
14 |
22 |
|
Apprentices in Haddenham - Crafts before 1812 |
12 |
18 |
|
Aston Sandford, Manor Farmhouse at |
12 |
7 |
|
Aylesbury Agitator (Edward Richardson) |
9 |
25 |
|
Aylesbury Airport Ltd |
5 |
61 |
|
|
|
|
|
Bakery at Fort End |
8 |
14 |
|
Balcombe & Plater Families in Haddenham |
18 |
21 |
|
Banks Park |
4 |
47 |
|
Barn Coal Charity |
3 |
32 |
|
Basque children. Tythrop House refugees |
13 |
21 |
|
Baptist, Church building |
2 |
21 |
|
Baptist, worship A brief history of |
2 |
24 |
|
Baptist Burial Ground - Stockwell |
19 |
23 |
|
Before Haddenham was a village |
1 |
3 |
|
Beke family of Haddenham |
17 |
2 |
|
Beke, Richard - church Farm House |
1 |
12 |
|
Beck family of Haddenham |
17 |
10 |
|
Bells of St Mary’s, Restoration in 1978 - 1979 |
4 |
56 |
|
Bessie goes to school - Transcript of interview Bessie Wooton |
6 |
36 |
|
Bigstrup farmstead Burglary of 1243 |
5 |
2 |
|
Bigstrup, Matthew of Bigstrup 1180-1235 – Medieval Rumpol |
3 |
5 |
|
Billhook the story of an C18th Billhook |
20 |
32 |
|
A Bishop from Cuddington |
20 |
23 |
|
Booth, Sophia of Haddenham Hall |
1 |
32 |
|
Bowman, Stewart – Stained Glass Artist |
18 |
60 |
|
Brick making – Haddenham Low – Architectural note |
8 |
34 |
|
Bull and Boar Charity |
1 |
40 |
|
|
|
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Carwithen, Doreen in Haddenham – Film Composer |
18 |
50 |
|
Catholic - the community in Haddenham |
3 |
58 |
|
Charity begins at home |
3 |
28 |
|
Charity Bull and Boar |
1 |
40 |
|
Childhood before the First World War, by Kate Turnham |
11 |
55 |
|
Cholera (Epidemic in the Parish of Cuddington) |
18 |
48 |
|
Clayton and Bell – Glass artists - St Mary’s church windows |
12 |
34 |
|
Clergy, Crime and Capital Punishment |
15 |
23 |
|
Christie. An interview with Mrs Christie -wife of H’s 1st doctor |
4 |
22 |
|
Church Farm House – Church End – 14th Century |
1 |
10 |
|
Church of St Mary Architecture - The West Tower |
18 |
5 |
|
Civil War, Haddenham 1642 - 1646 |
8 |
2 |
|
Cob wall (Poem) - Methodist Church wall collapse |
1 |
47 |
|
Cobweb, Rosemary Lane |
3 |
47 |
|
Copyholders - explanation |
2 |
9 |
|
Copyholders |
3 |
9 |
|
Copyholders – Tenants of thew Lord of the Manor |
8 |
23 |
|
Council School, Haddenham, during the Second World War |
17 |
41 |
|
Country walk, A poem written in 1937 by C E Ray |
10 |
40 |
|
Craft Apprentices in Haddenham |
12 |
18 |
|
Cricket, A brief history of our village cricket team |
11 |
47 |
|
Crop marks – Arial Photograph |
1 |
6 |
|
Customal – tenant liability of services to the Lord of the Manor |
3 |
10 |
|
|
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Dawes, Revd Dr W R – Hopefield House |
2 |
40 |
|
Democracy in 16th Century Haddenham |
18 |
16 |
|
Demonstration of 1913, The religious protest Roman Catholics |
1 |
43 |
|
Dig behind 5 Townsend – archaeological investigations |
10 |
7 |
|
DIY History – Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies - Aylesbury |
10 |
21 |
|
Doctor - Haddenham’s first doctors |
4 |
6 |
|
Doctors - Christie, Cook, Paterson, and Handfield-Jones |
2 |
45 |
|
Domesday – People of Haddenham |
4 |
2 |
|
Doreen Carwithen in Haddenham - film composer |
18 |
50 |
|
Dove Cote at the Dove House - No.4 High Street |
11 |
12 |
|
Dove House, 4 High Street a Tudor & Stuart Timber House |
10 |
10 |
|
Ducks in Haddenham |
8 |
40 |
|
Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to Haddenham & Cuddington 1952 |
19 |
51 |
|
|
|
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Enclosure, Appraising Grazing – Haddenham pre-enclosure |
14 |
22 |
|
Enclosure Act of 1830 |
1 |
24 |
|
Enclosure (They came, they saw, they measured) – W. Plastow |
11 |
28 |
|
Enclosure, Occupations, Landholding and Tenancy |
13 |
6 |
|
Emigration 1893 James Alfred Pratt – Townsend Green |
10 |
36 |
|
End of the World War 2 , How Haddenham celebrated |
17 |
54 |
|
Epidemic- Cholera in the Parish of Cuddington – 1849 |
18 |
48 |
|
Evacuation to Haddenham World War 2 Audrey Judd aged 13 |
7 |
52 |
|
Evacuee, I was an evacuee in WW2 Les Parsons from Ealing |
18 |
57 |
|
|
|
||
Fair and the feast service. 1st Sunday after 19th September |
7 |
57 |
|
Families over the centuries 1520,s to 1851 |
7 |
7 |
|
Farrar Bell, Michael - stained glass artists |
12 |
34 |
|
Fear in the Fifteenth Century - Court of Chancery |
11 |
7 |
|
Feast, Haddenham - Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. |
1 |
7 |
|
Ferry Pilots 1943 – 1945 Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) |
15 |
58 |
|
Festivals, Harvests in Haddenham |
1 |
38 |
|
Fifties - Boyhood memories by John Carnell |
13 |
56 |
|
Fire! - Significant fires in Haddenham from 1701 to 1951 |
3 |
19 |
|
Firemark - The house in the High Street |
5 |
33 |
|
First Post - Haddenham’s oldest letters |
10 |
2 |
|
First World War - Haddenham's Participation |
15 |
34 |
|
Fish, hawk or fowl - Landowner claim for all rights. |
4 |
44 |
|
Football - A history of, 1910 – 1970 |
9 |
45 |
|
Football - A history of, 1970 – 2011 |
10 |
53 |
|
Fort End - Bakery – Deeds and history |
8 |
14 |
|
Fort End - Growing up in Fort End by Rosemary Watson |
20 |
55 |
|
Fort End House |
14 |
6 |
|
Fort End Works |
7 |
43 |
|
Franklin Estate Sale of 1908 |
16 |
48 |
|
Fraucups ( Snakes-Head Fritillaries ) |
6 |
56 |
|
Freemasons, the Haddenham Lodge |
7 |
60 |
|
Funeral Firm (Wilson) Thame Gazette 1975 |
12 |
21 |
|
|
|
||
Gaiety Girl and other dancing girls |
20 |
50 |
|
Glider Training Squadron 1941 - 1942 |
3 |
53 |
|
Glebe Skeleton found on housing development off Aston Rd. |
18 |
4 |
|
Glynne (Glyn) Davies. Tribute in memory off. (Kings Head) |
8 |
44 |
|
Gog Farm, Townsend - A Medieval Cruck building |
17 |
17 |
|
Gothic revival - Haddenham’s influence on St Pancras Station? |
8 |
31 |
|
Green Dragon in the past - from 1754 + other pubs |
17 |
27 |
|
Grenville Manor Aston Road |
3 |
13 |
|
Grenville's Manor in the 1300s |
12 |
2 |
|
Grenville’s Manor in 1536 |
9 |
9 |
|
|
|||
Haddenham in 664 AD |
20 |
6 |
|
Haddenham and the Sheriffs of Aylesbury Goal |
20 |
35 |
|
Haddenham Board School - Log Book 1885 - 1899 |
19 |
35 |
|
Haddenham Board School - Log Book 1899 - 1916 |
19 |
42 |
|
Haddenham Board School - The curriculum 1899 - 1916 |
20 |
41 |
|
Haddenham Doctors – from 1898 |
2 |
45 |
|
Haddenham Hall, - Sophia Booth the JMW Turner connection |
1 |
32 |
|
Haddenham Hall - More about history of the house occupants |
2 |
43 |
|
Haddenham Low Brickworks |
18 |
44 |
|
Haddenham Low House (Brickmakers house} |
8 |
34 |
|
Haeda’s ham – Haddenham – What’s in a name |
3 |
2 |
|
Harvest - Bringing in the harvest during WW2 |
14 |
54 |
|
Harvest Festivals in Haddenham since 1866 |
1 |
38 |
|
Hatches, matches and dispatches 1653-1760 |
8 |
7 |
|
Hearth Taxes in Haddenham in 1672, |
6 |
3 |
|
Henry Terry - Portrait Painter in Haddenham |
18 |
55 |
|
Henry Terry - Portrait Painter in Haddenham – his paintings |
19 |
33 |
|
High Street, Woodend House (Greenwood family) |
5 |
32 |
|
Hopefield House Station Rd . - Rev. DR.W.R. Dawes |
2 |
40 |
|
Hotspur glider - training squadron 1941 - 42 |
3 |
53 |
|
Hugh of Haddenham: The reluctant knight of 1229 |
19 |
4 |
|
Hyde, Cecil - Reminisces Oct 1907 – Sept 1997 |
7 |
36 |
|
|
|
||
Jewish Refugees and the Tythrop Scheme – December 1938 |
14 |
41 |
|
|
|
||
Kate Turnham - A childhood before the First World War |
11 |
55 |
|
Knights - The twentieth-century Haddenham knights |
6 |
60 |
|
|
|
||
Lace Making in Haddenham |
10 |
31 |
|
Listed buildings of Haddenham - 1985 |
1 |
48 |
|
Listed buildings in the High Street |
4 |
7 |
|
Lord of the Manor – The Beke Family 1570 - 1660 |
17 |
2 |
|
Lords of the manor, Tenants - Copyhold title deeds |
8 |
23 |
|
Lords of the Manor (List) 1657 to 1912 |
8 |
28 |
|
Lord Williams – 1559 will provisions for Thame school |
15 |
12 |
|
Ludgate, T W & Son - Duck and feather merchants |
15 |
43 |
|
|
|
||
Malt House, No.4 Church End |
16 |
10 |
|
Manor Farm House, part 1 – The Medieval House |
5 |
12 |
|
Manor Farm House, part 2 – The Seventeen-Century House |
6 |
17 |
|
Manor Farmhouse - Aston Sandford – A Haddm connection |
12 |
7 |
|
Manor Farm Life – Tom Bucknell |
8 |
52 |
|
Manor Farm - Tom Bucknell’s Diaries – The Early Years |
20 |
61 |
|
Map 1905 postcard |
5 |
48 |
|
Map, Thomas Jeffreys - published in 1770 |
1 |
13 |
|
Medieval Family, The Nash family of Haddenham |
14 |
2 |
|
Memories - More memories of my younger days -John Carnell |
17 |
56 |
|
Methodism in Haddenham |
6 |
23 |
|
Michael Whitney arrives in Haddenham 1952 |
15 |
62 |
|
Minster - What Minster? – Haddenham’s minster |
19 |
57 |
|
Motorcycle racing on the airfield site 1949 |
2 |
56 |
|
Mummers in Haddenham |
16 |
23 |
|
Murder, Dreadful, of a former curate - 1887 |
7 |
32 |
|
Murder, William ‘Noble’ Edden - Haddenham, 1828 |
1 |
20 |
|
Murder Play - A review of the play William ‘Nobel’ Edden |
8 |
63 |
|
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News from the early nineteenth century |
11 |
20 |
|
Newton, Roger- 1942 – 2012 Classic vehicles and Cycling |
17 |
49 |
|
New Zealand Pilots war grave. - Baptist burial ground |
6 |
55 |
|
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Oak Beam Cottage No.22 High St.– A medieval Cruck Cottage |
9 |
2 |
|
Oral History – How to do it |
19 |
54 |
|
Orchard Dene No.7 High St. 16th Century – Wall paintings |
7 |
14 |
|
Orchard Riot in 1831. Banks Rd./Churchway |
14 |
34 |
|
O Happy Days - A poem of Haddenham by Eileen Taylor |
13 |
55 |
|
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Parish Councillors - Who were our (first) from 1894 |
17 |
34 |
|
Peter Tyler - Baptist |
2 |
25 |
|
Plater (& Balcombe) Families in Haddenham from 1798 |
18 |
21 |
|
Play - Review of the Great War 1914-1918 play - Village school |
13 |
62 |
|
Ploughing Matches in Haddenham 1840 and 1841 |
12 |
29 |
|
Ponnie - Pond on Manor Farm - origins |
19 |
19 |
|
Priory - The Rochester, Kent connection to Haddenham |
2 |
8-13 |
|
Priory – Manor Farm’s link to the Cathedral Prior of Rochester |
5 |
18 |
|
Population from 1801 to 2001 shown in graph form |
6 |
8 |
|
Posse, (force of the County) - Haddenham men and equip.1798 |
2 |
19 |
|
Pubs - When Haddenham was awash with pubs |
2 |
33 |
|
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|
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Quakers in Haddenham and the Chilterns |
7 |
26 |
|
|
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Railway in Haddenham, A chequered history |
6 |
40 |
|
Reformation - St Mary’s Church in 16th Century |
2 |
14 |
|
Restoration of the bells of St Mary’s, 1637, 1809, and 1979 |
4 |
56 |
|
Review of The Great War 1914-1918 play by Margaret Watkins |
13 |
62 |
|
Ricketts Family Reunions of 1938 & 1999 |
16 |
31 |
|
Rochester Kent connection. To Haddenham |
2 |
8 |
|
Roger Newton - classic vehicle collector and cyclist |
17 |
49 |
|
Roller Skating in Haddenham 1937 - 1983 |
15 |
54 |
|
Roman Catholic demonstration of 1913 |
1 |
43 |
|
Roman Finds – Coins |
2 |
3 |
|
Rowland Green 1906 – 2006. Transcript of recording 1989 |
5 |
49 |
|
Royal Oak Towns End Green fire 1876 |
3 |
21 |
|
Royal Visit - The Duke of Edinburgh opens playing fields |
19 |
51 |
|
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St Mary's Church History |
15 |
46 |
|
St Mary’s Church - Architecture the 14th Century |
19 |
9 |
|
St Mary’s Church - Architecture the 15th Century |
20 |
10 |
|
St Mary's School - A History of, Part 1 |
12 |
38 |
|
St Mary's School - A History of, Part 2 |
13 |
31 |
|
Scott, Sir George Gilbert - Architect |
8 |
31 |
|
Scottsgrove – early history |
15 |
5 |
|
Scotsgrove - (Part Two) |
16 |
39 |
|
School - A History of St Mary's, Part 1 |
12 |
38 |
|
School - A History of St Mary's, Part 2 |
13 |
31 |
|
School Log Books – Haddenham Board School 1885-1899 |
19 |
35 |
|
School Log Books – Haddenham Board School 1899-1916 |
19 |
42 |
|
Silly Haddenham - records 1880, 1917 and 1924 |
1 |
45 |
|
Skeleton at the Glebe - housing development site |
18 |
4 |
|
Slave Trade, American, Abolition Meeting at Haddenham 1884 |
18 |
42 |
|
Snakemoor Local Nature Reserve – part1 |
18 |
63 |
|
Snakemoor Local Nature Reserve – part 2 |
19 |
27 |
|
Snakeshead fritillaries – Fraucups |
6 |
56 |
|
Spicers Original factory destroyed by fire in 1951 |
3 |
26 |
|
Spicers – Elm Banks Park acquisition 1952 |
4 |
49 |
|
Spicers – Memories |
14 |
59 |
|
Spicers, More memories |
14 |
62 |
|
Stagecoach from Haddenham - Catching the coach – 1830s |
5 |
39 |
|
Starving When Haddenham was starving in 1832 - Enclosure |
1 |
26 |
|
Stewart Bowman - Stain glass artist |
18 |
60 |
|
Stock-car the stock-car racers of Haddenham |
2 |
59 |
|
Strangers from the air. |
9 |
61 |
|
Street names - 1 Origins named after people |
1 |
14 |
|
Street names - 2 the old streets and 20th Century |
3 |
40 |
|
Street names - 3 the remainder |
4 |
14 |
|
Street names – 4 street names added over last 9 years- 2008 |
15 |
50 |
|
Street names – 5 new housing developments |
16 |
63 |
|
Swifts, The guests beneath our roofs |
2 |
48 |
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Tales of the Riverbank: 1522-23 |
20 |
26 |
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Taylor, The Revd William Walter Joseph 1950 - St Mary’s |
8 |
47 |
|
Telephone directory 1931 |
4 |
52 |
|
They came, they saw, they measured William Plastow interview |
11 |
28 |
|
Thomasing - requesting Christmas gifts -Mrs Christie interview |
4 |
29 |
|
Times Online, List of articles related to Haddenham 17971985 |
5 |
21 |
|
Toll roads near Haddenham |
9 |
13 |
|
Tractor - What's this thing? - Michael Whitney recollections |
12 |
60 |
|
Transportation to Van Diemen’s Land 1837 and 1842 |
3 |
36 |
|
Tudor Accidents in Haddenham 1541 and 1555 |
15 |
3 |
|
Turn End Grade 2 listed buildings |
10 |
42 |
|
Turner, JMW, and Haddenham Hall – Sophia Booth 1867-78 |
1 |
32 |
|
Tythrop House - Home to Refugees from 1937 to 1940. Part 1 |
13 |
21 |
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Tythrop - A Dramatic Story of the history of the house |
15 |
18 |
|
Tythrop scheme, Jewish Refugees 1939 |
14 |
41 |
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Upward Bound Trust - History of Trust – Glider training |
8 |
56 |
|
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Van Diemen’s Land - Transportation of Haddenham men |
3 |
36 |
|
Victorian restoration of St Mary’s 1864 |
2 |
28 |
|
Victorian schools – development of schools in Haddenham |
6 |
29 |
|
Vicars & Rectors of Haddenham 1114 to 2009 |
15 |
53 |
|
Village Society, Haddenham – history of the society |
17 |
60 |
|
Votes for Women - Haddenham Split on votes 1911-1918 |
16 |
58 |
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Walter Rose (& William Ward) at Haddenham Board School |
18 |
34 |
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Walter Rose. An interview 1960 recalling his 88 year of his life |
4 |
33 |
|
Walter Rose’s family tree, 1736 - 1963 |
11 |
45 |
|
War memorial, erected 1921 - |
6 |
48 |
|
War - Haddenham Council School during the Second World |
17 |
41 |
|
Wartime accidents around Haddenham 1942, 1943 and 1945 |
6 |
52 |
|
Water 1820 – pumps and wells - mains water 1936/7 |
9 |
21 |
|
Weather and history |
6 |
11 |
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Webb, Ralph born 1881- Village builder – witchert buildings |
3 |
51 |
|
West Tower - Architecture of the Church of St Mary |
18 |
5 |
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What’s in a name? naming of the village Haeda’s ham |
3 |
2 |
|
Whitney, Michael arrives in Haddenham January 1952 |
15 |
62 |
|
Who believed what in 1851 - Religious Census |
9 |
32 |
|
Who was who in Haddenham & Cuddington 1086-1558 |
7 |
2 |
|
William Ward & Walter Rose - Haddenham Board School |
18 |
34 |
|
Willis, Revd John - The naughty vicar – 1827 - 1855 |
9 |
39 |
|
Wilsons (A Family Concern not just a Funeral Firm) |
12 |
21 |
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Windmills of Haddenham 1612 - 1926 - |
14 |
18 |
|
Witchert decaying limestone material used in Haddenham. |
13 |
65 |
|
Women’s Institute, A history, 1922 – 2010 |
9 |
51 |
|
Woodend House – History between 1786- 1971 |
5 |
32 |
|
Workhouse, A name to fear, 1766 -1908 / Rules & Orders |
10 |
26 |