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.
All back issues are available for sale and regularly reprinted. 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 |
Issue |
Page |
1086, The people of Haddenham in |
4 |
2 |
1275; the day that Justice came to Grove End |
11 |
2 |
1524, What happened in Haddenham in |
5 |
6 |
1598 Will |
16 |
4 |
15th Century, Fear in the |
11 |
7 |
1670 Kingston Blount Fire Collection |
16 |
6 |
1712, Haddenham in |
13 |
3 |
1764 Overseer's Disbursements |
16 |
8 |
1770 Map, Jefferys |
1 |
13 |
1820 Map |
15 |
27 |
1831 Orchard Riot |
14 |
34 |
1851, Haddenham in |
1 |
28 |
1851, Who believed what in |
9 |
32 |
19th Century, News from the early |
11 |
20 |
1905 Map |
5 |
48 |
1908, Franklin Estate Sale of |
16 |
48 |
Accidents, Wartime, around Haddenham |
6 |
52 |
Adnum as spoke |
7 |
49 |
Aftermath (of the Enclosure) |
12 |
23 |
Alms corn charity |
3 |
31 |
16 |
60 |
|
Airfield Oddities |
4 |
53 |
Airtech |
4 |
53 |
Amy Johnson was here |
16 |
55 |
Appraising Grazing, Before the Enclosure |
14 |
22 |
Apprentices in Haddenham, Craft |
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 |
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 |
Before Haddenham was a village |
1 |
3 |
Beke family of Haddenham |
17 |
2 |
Beke, Richard |
1 |
12 |
17 |
10 |
|
Bells of St Mary’s, Restoration of |
4 |
56 |
Bessie goes to school |
6 |
36 |
Bigstrup, 1243, Burglary at |
5 |
2 |
Bigstrup, Matthew of |
3 |
5 |
Booth, Sophia, Haddenham Hall |
1 |
32 |
Brick making |
8 |
34 |
Bull and Boar Charity |
1 |
40 |
|
|
|
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, My |
11 |
55 |
Clayton and Bell |
12 |
34 |
Clergy, Crime and Capital Punishment |
15 |
23 |
Christie, An interview with Mrs |
4 |
22 |
Christie, Dr |
2 |
45 |
|
4 |
40 |
Church Farm House |
1 |
10 |
Civil War, Haddenham in the |
8 |
2 |
Cob wall, The old (Poem) |
1 |
47 |
Cobweb, Rosemary Lane |
3 |
47 |
Copyholders |
2 |
9 |
|
3 |
9 |
|
8 |
23 |
Council School, Haddenham, during the Second World War |
17 |
41 |
Country walk, A (Poem) |
10 |
40 |
Craft Apprentices in Haddenham |
12 |
18 |
Cricket, A brief history of our village |
11 |
47 |
Crop marks |
1 |
6 |
Customal |
3 |
10 |
|
2 |
9 |
Dawes, Revd Dr W R |
2 |
40 |
Demonstration of 1913, The religious |
1 |
43 |
Dig behind 5 Townsend |
10 |
7 |
DIY History |
10 |
21 |
Doctor, Haddenham’s first |
4 |
6 |
Doctors, Haddenham |
2 |
45 |
Domesday |
4 |
2-5 |
Dove Cote at the Dove House |
11 |
12 |
Dove House, The |
10 |
10 |
Ducks, Haddenham’s |
8 |
40 |
|
|
|
Enclosure, Before the, Appraising Grazing |
14 |
22 |
Enclosure, The Haddenham |
1 |
24 |
Enclosure (They came, they saw, they measured) |
11 |
28 |
Enclosure, Occupations, Landholding and Tenancy |
13 |
6 |
Emigration |
10 |
36 |
End of the war, How Haddenham celebrated the |
17 |
54 |
Evacuation to Haddenham |
7 |
52 |
|
|
|
Fair and the feast service |
7 |
57 |
Families over the centuries |
7 |
7 |
Farrar Bell, Michael |
12 |
34 |
Fear in the Fifteenth Century |
11 |
7 |
Feast, Haddenham |
1 |
7 |
Ferry Pilots |
15 |
58 |
Festivals, Harvest |
1 |
38 |
Fifties, Boyhood memories of |
13 |
56 |
Fire! |
3 |
19 |
Firemark |
5 |
33 |
First Post; Haddenham’s oldest letters |
10 |
2 |
First World War, Haddenham's Parcipitation |
15 |
34 |
Fish, hawk or fowl, The right to |
4 |
44 |
Football, A history of, 1910 – 1970 |
9 |
45 |
Football , A history of, 1970 – 2011 |
10 |
53 |
Fort End, Bakery at |
8 |
|
Fort End House |
14 |
|
Fort End Works |
7 |
43 |
Franklin Estate Sale of 1908 |
16 |
48 |
Fraucups |
6 |
56 |
Freemasons, Haddenham Lodge of |
7 |
60 |
Funeral Firm (Wilson) |
12 |
21 |
|
|
|
Glider Training Squadron |
3 |
53 |
Glynne (Glyn) Davies |
8 |
44 |
Gog Farm, Townsend |
17 |
17 |
Gothic revival, Haddenham and the |
8 |
31 |
Green Dragon in the past |
17 |
27 |
Grenville Manor |
3 |
13 |
Grenville's Manor in the 1300s |
12 |
2 |
Grenville’s Manor in 1536 |
9 |
9 |
|
|
|
Haddenham Hall, JMW Turner and |
1 |
32 |
Haddenham Hall, More about |
2 |
43 |
Haddenham Low House |
8 |
34 |
Haeda’s ham |
3 |
2 |
Harvest, Bringing in the, during WW2 |
14 |
54 |
Harvest Festivals |
1 |
38 |
Hatches, matches and dispatches 1653-1760 |
8 |
7 |
Hearths of Haddenham in 1672, Around the |
6 |
3 |
High Street, A house in the |
5 |
32 |
Hopefield House |
2 |
40 |
Hotspur glider |
3 |
53 |
Hyde, Cecil, Reminisces |
7 |
36 |
|
|
|
Jewish Refugees and the Tythrop Scheme |
14 |
41 |
Kate Turnham, A childhood before the First World War |
11 |
55 |
Knights, The twentieth-century Haddenham |
6 |
60 |
|
|
|
Lace Making in Haddenham |
10 |
31 |
Listed buildings of Haddenham |
1 |
48 |
|
2 |
1 |
Listed buildings in the High Street |
4 |
7 |
Lord of the Manor, When Haddenham had a |
17 |
2 |
Lords of the manor, Tenants of |
8 |
23 |
Lords of the manor (List) |
8 |
28 |
Lord Williams |
15 |
12 |
Ludgate, T W & Son |
15 |
43 |
|
|
|
Malt House, The |
16 |
10 |
Manor Farm House, part 1 |
5 |
12 |
Manor Farm House, part 2 |
6 |
17 |
Manor Farmhouse at Aston Sandford |
12 |
7 |
Manor Farm Life |
8 |
52 |
Map 1905 |
5 |
48 |
Map, Jeffreys, 1770 |
1 |
13 |
Medieval Family, The Nashes of Haddenham |
14 |
2 |
Memories, More of my younger days |
17 |
56 |
Methodism in Haddenham |
6 |
23 |
Michael Whitney arrives in Haddenham |
15 |
62 |
Motorcycle racing |
2 |
56 |
Mummers, The Haddenham |
16 |
23 |
Murder, Dreadful, of a former curate |
7 |
32 |
Murder, Haddenham, 1828 |
1 |
20 |
Murder Play, A review of the |
8 |
63 |
|
|
|
News from the early nineteenth century |
11 |
20 |
Newton, Roger |
17 |
49 |
New Zealand war grave, The |
6 |
55 |
|
|
|
Oak Beam Cottage |
9 |
2 |
Orchard Dene |
7 |
14 |
Orchard Riot in 1831 |
14 |
34 |
O Happy Days (Poem) |
13 |
55 |
|
|
|
Parish Councillors, Who were our (first) |
17 |
34 |
Peter Tyler |
2 |
25 |
Play, Review of, The Great War |
13 |
62 |
Ploughing Matches, The Haddenham |
12 |
29 |
Priory |
2 |
8-13 |
|
5 |
18 |
Population from 1801 to 2001 |
6 |
8 |
Posse, The Haddenham |
2 |
19 |
Pubs, When Haddenham was awash with |
2 |
33 |
|
|
|
Quakers in Haddenham and the Chilterns |
7 |
26 |
|
|
|
Railway in Haddenham, The |
6 |
40 |
Reformation, St Mary’s and the |
2 |
14 |
Restoration of the bells of St Mary’s |
4 |
56 |
Review of The Great War Play |
13 |
62 |
Ricketts Family Reunions of 1938 & 1999 |
16 |
31 |
Rochester, connection |
2 |
8 |
Roge rNewton |
17 |
49 |
Roller Skating |
15 |
54 |
Roman Catholic, demonstration |
1 |
43 |
Roman Finds |
2 |
3 |
Rowland Green |
5 |
49 |
Royal Oak |
3 |
21 |
St Mary's Church History | 15 | 46 |
St Mary's School, A History of, Part 1 |
12 |
38 |
St Mary's School, A History of, Part 2 |
13 |
21 |
Scott, Sir George Gilbert |
8 |
31 |
Scotsgrove |
15 |
5 |
Scotsgrove (PartTwo) |
16 |
39 |
School, A History of St Mary's, Part 1 |
12 |
38 |
Silly Haddenham |
1 |
45 |
Snakeshead fritillaries |
6 |
56 |
Spicers |
3 |
26 |
|
4 |
49-50 |
14 |
59 |
|
Spicers, More memories of |
14 |
62 |
Stagecoach from Haddenham, Catching the |
5 |
39 |
Starving, When Haddenham was, |
1 |
26 |
Stock-car racing |
2 |
59 |
Strangers from the air |
9 |
61 |
Street names, named after people |
1 |
14 |
Street names, the old streets and 20thC |
3 |
40 |
Street names, the remainder |
4 |
14 |
Sreet names - 4 |
15 |
50 |
Street names - 5 |
16 |
63 |
Swifts, The guests beneath our roofs |
2 |
48 |
|
|
|
Taylor, The Revd William Walter Joseph |
8 |
47 |
Telephone directory 1931 |
4 |
52 |
They came, they saw, they measured |
11 |
28 |
Thomasing |
4 |
29 |
Times Online, The |
5 |
21 |
Toll roads near Haddenham |
9 |
13 |
Tractor Thing, What's this |
12 |
60 |
Transportation to Van Diemen’s Land |
3 |
36 |
Tudor Accidents |
15 |
3 |
Turn End |
10 |
42 |
Turner, JMW, and Haddenham Hall |
1 |
32 |
Tythrop House - Home to Refugees from 1937 to 1940. Part 1 |
13 |
21 |
Tythrop - A Dramatic Story |
15 |
18 |
Tythrop scheme, Jewish Refugees |
14 |
41 |
|
|
|
Upward Bound Trust, The |
8 |
56 |
|
|
|
Van Diemen’s Land, Transportation to |
3 |
36 |
Victorian restoration of St Mary’s |
2 |
28 |
Victorian schools |
6 |
29 |
Vicars & Rectors of Haddenham |
15 |
53 |
Village Society, Haddenham |
17 |
60 |
Votes for Women, Haddenham Split on |
16 |
58 |
Walter Rose, An interview with |
4 |
33 |
Walter Rose’s family tree, part of |
11 |
45 |
War memorial, The |
6 |
48 |
War, Haddenham Council School during the Second World |
17 |
41 |
Wartime accidents around Haddenham |
6 |
52 |
Water |
9 |
21 |
Weather and history |
6 |
11 |
Webb, Ralph |
3 |
51 |
What’s in a name? |
3 |
2 |
Whitney, Michael arrives in Haddenham |
15 |
62 |
Who believed what in 1851 |
9 |
32 |
Who was who in 1086-1558 |
7 |
2 |
Willis, The naughty vicar – Revd John |
9 |
39 |
Wilsons (A Family Concern not just a Funeral Firm) |
12 |
21 |
Windmills of Haddenham |
14 |
18 |
Witchert |
13 |
65 |
Women’s Institute, A history, 1922 – 2010 |
9 |
51 |
Woodend House |
5 |
32 |
Workhouse, A name to fear, The |
10 |
26 |