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Historic buildings to open for special heritage event

2:00pm Saturday 8th September 2012

HISTORIC school buildings are to be opened up to the public tomorrow.

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Bucks boats to be alongside Queen in 'largest ever flotilla'

5:00am Sunday 3rd June 2012

ROWERS from Marlow will be part of one of the largest ever flotillas ever to assemble on the River Thames for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant today.

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Forgotten graves of the war dead

9:52am Wednesday 15th September 2010

A private developer has allowed a graveyard containing the remains of First World War soldiers to become overgrown and neglected.

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Author masters London's disasters

9:00am Saturday 7th August 2010

Croydon has been the site of some of the worst disasters in London, a new book has revealed.

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Writer seeks family of WWII adventurer

6:20am Sunday 25th July 2010

A world war enthusiast who is putting together the life story of a Sanderstead soldier is appealing for members of his family to come forward.

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Journalist's book describes post-war Croydon

6:00am Monday 7th June 2010

In a touching autobiography, journalist Frank Hurley describes his childhood, torn between the highland hills of Scotland and the urban landscape of Croydon.

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War honour for Croydon heroine

9:57am Wednesday 14th April 2010

A Croydon cemetery is the final resting place of First World War heroine Rose Cotton who died serving her country.

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Letters from the trenches

4:26pm Thursday 18th March 2010

During the First World War a loving father in the French army bore the grim horror of the trenches by sending his beloved young daughter quirky drawings and witty letters.

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View from the top

11:03am Friday 29th January 2010

IN the 18 and 19th centuries a traveller from the direction of Oxford would know that he was approaching the village of Stokenchurch when the windmill came into view, above right. This was built in 1736, and was the last working windmill in Bucks when it was blown down in a gale in the spring of 1926.

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Pubs and their pasts

11:31am Friday 11th December 2009

HAVING safely ascended Dashwood Hill we can stop for some liquid refreshment at The Harrow public house in Studley Green, before proceeding into Stokenchurch.

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Dashwood's charity built steep road

10:44am Friday 4th December 2009

Leaving the Wormsley Estate we link up with the road from Marlow, which takes us to the village of Stokenchurch.

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Vivid memories of village life

11:01am Friday 13th November 2009

CONTINUING our series focusing in and around Turville we look at the childhood of another reader who was brought up in the area.

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Our very own 'Sleeping Beauty'

10:30am Friday 6th November 2009

LAST week we took a look at the dwelling in Turville called Wisteria Cottage. The village has many cottages with similarly evocative names.

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Daylight could be seen through the walls

12:05pm Friday 30th October 2009

Turville village is surrounded by springs and in the early years of the 20th century the onset of the wet season marked the rising of these springs, which caused extensive flooding of the village along the main road, left, known to this day as Watery Lane.

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