HADDENHAM MUSEUM

Index to The Haddenham Chronicles

Issue

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642-685 AD  -  Anglo-Saxon skeleton at the Grove

20

4

1086 The people of Haddenham in 1086

4

2

1229 Hugh of Haddenham: the reluctant knight

19

4

1275 The day that Justice came to Grove End

11

2

1345 Haddenham’s Landscape

21

4

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

1642-46 Haddenham’s financial experience in the Civil War

21

24

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

19^th Century  News from the. Jackson’s Oxford Journal

11

20

1905 Postcard Map 

5

48

1908 The Franklin Estate Sale of 1908

16

48

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

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  1^st doctor

4

22

Church Farm House – Church End – 14^th 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

Dawes, Revd Dr W R – Hopefield House 

2

40

Dawes, Revd Dr W R – Haddenham’s ‘Man on the Moon’

21

32

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

Emigration 1893 James Alfred Pratt – Townsend Green

10

36

Enclosure Act of 1830 

1

24

Enclosure (They came, they saw, they measured) – W. Plastow

11

28

Enclosure, Appraising Grazing – Haddenham pre-enclosure

14

22

Enclosure, Occupations, Landholding and Tenancy  

13

6

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. 1^st Sunday after 19^th 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

George Green - A local Success Story

21

35

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’s Landscape in 1345

21

4

Haddenham and the Sheriffs of Aylesbury Goal

20

35

Haddenham Beer Festivals from July 2004

22

62

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’s Financial Experience in the Civil War (1642-6)

21

24

Haddenham Hall -  Behind the walls 1939 - 1945

22

52

Haddenham Hall, - Sophia Booth the JMW Turner connection

1

32

Haddenham Hall - More about history of the house occupants

2

43

Haddenham’s High and Lows

21

39

Haddenham Horticultural Shows –The early history from1894

22

24

Haddenham Low Brickworks

18

44

Haddenham Low House (Brickmakers house}

8

34

Haddenham’s ‘Man on the Moon’  Revd. Dr William R. Dawes

21

32

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

Hopefield House – The little green vault – treasure collection

22

29

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

Hydulignum – a Densified Wood

21

55

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

Manor Farm - Tom Bucknell’s Diaries – 1960’s and 70’s

21

62

Map 1905 postcard

5

48

Map, Thomas Jeffreys -  published in 1770

1

13

Medieval Family, The Nash family of Haddenham

14

2

Medieval Logo (Notary Mark) from Cuddington circa. 1340

22

3

Memories - More memories of my younger days -John Carnell

17

56

Methodism in Haddenham

6

23

Michael Penn (Mick) 1942 – 2024   -  a personal reflection

22

56

Michael Whitney arrives in Haddenham 1952

15

62

Milk – How Haddenham got its milk 1918 - 1990

21

51

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

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

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. 16^th 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

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

Population from 1801 to 2001 shown in graph form

6

8

Posse, (force of the County) - Haddenham men and equip.1798

2

19

Priory  -  The Rochester, Kent connection to Haddenham

2

8

Priory – Manor Farm’s link to the Cathedral Prior of Rochester

5

18

Pubs - When Haddenham was awash with pubs 

2

33

Quakers in Haddenham and the Chilterns

7

26

Railway in Haddenham, A chequered history 

6

40

Reformation - St Mary’s Church in 16^th 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

Richard le Beel of Cuddington circa 1340

22

3

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

St Mary's Church History

15

46

St Mary’s Church - Architecture 13^th Century Chancel & Nave

21

12

St Mary’s Church - Architecture the 14^th Century

19

9

St Mary’s Church - Architecture the 15^th Century

20

10

St Mary’s West Tower - Architecture of the Church of St Mary

18

5

St Mary’s Church – Interior pre-restoration

22

7

St Marys Church Yard – Museum Members Event Sept. 2024

22

35

St Mary’s Churchyard Graves - Revd Dr William Rutter Dawes

22

36

St Mary’s Churchyard Graves - Edward Chapman Clarke

22

38

St Mary’s Churchyard Graves – Capt. John Merrington

22

40

St Mary’s Churchyard Graves – World War One Graves

22

42

St Mary’s Churchyard Graves – Michael Farrar Bell

22

43

St Mary’s Churchyard Graves – Joseph Franklin’s Tomb

22

45

St Mary’s Churchyard Graves – Graveyard plan

22

50

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 Log Books – Haddenham Board School 1885-1899

19

35

School Log Books – Haddenham Board School 1899-1916

19

42

School Log Books – Haddenham Council School 1918-1990

21

43

School medical service – Haddenham C. School 1922-1938

22

17

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 20^th 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

Tales of the Riverbank: 1522-23

20

26

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

Tom Stephenson and the right to roam – Cuddington

22

32

Times Online List - articles related to Haddenham 1797 -1985

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

Tythrop - A Dramatic Story of the history of the house

15

18

Tythrop scheme, Jewish Refugees 1939 

14

41

Upward Bound Trust - History of Trust – Glider training

8

56

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

Walter Rose (& William Ward) at Haddenham Board School

18

34

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

Webb, Ralph born 1881- Village builder – witchert buildings

3

51

What’s in a name?  naming of the village Haeda’s ham 

3

2

Whitney, Michael arrives in Haddenham January 1952 

15

62

Wheatley, Michael - A free Spirit from Haddenham

21

58

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

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