Newport on fire

18 January 2025 MKHA Webmaster 0

Don Hurst will be showing slides with the buildings that have been damaged or destroyed by fire through the years and some of the characters involved.
Newport Pagnell Historical Society

The Great Geranium Robbery

8 January 2025 MKHA Webmaster 0

In 1795 rare plants were stolen from Daniel Grimwood’s nursery grounds including some newly introduced geraniums and ericas from South Africa.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust

Grandad’s War

6 January 2025 MKHA Webmaster 0

Herbert Barnes’s story has been researched using public records and family archives by his grandson Ted Barnes.
Yardley Gobion History Group

An Emigration Story

5 January 2025 MKHA Webmaster 0

John Flewin relates the stories of the first families to settle on Vancouver Island off the west coast of Canada and tells of the legacy they left behind.
Bucks Family History Society