Exhibition charts architectural history of Beaconsfield (From This Is Local London)

Exhibition charts architectural history of Beaconsfield

4:30pm Sunday 8th November 2009

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A UNIQUE exhibition opens in Beaconsfield on Saturday charting the development of the town over the last century.

On display will be the original historic plans of some of the most significant houses in the town, as well as shops and public buildings erected at the turn of last century - a majority of which are still very much part of Beaconsfield today.

The exhibition will also celebrate the launch of a new book ‘Beaconsfield, a History’, by renowned local historians, Julian Hunt and David Thorpe, which is the result of more than five years intensive research.

The book documents the architectural history of Beaconsfield soon after opening of the Great Western and Great Central new main line through the town in 1906.

Julian Hunt said: “Many residents will discover the plans of their properties on display, or the original plans of properties on plots which may now be rebuilt.

“Beaconsfield holds such an interesting history, much of which we has been successfully recorded thanks to the preservation of the original drawings of the leading architects of the period, Julian Burgess and Walter Holden.

A key supporter of the exhibition is The Frost Partnership, whose original founder Alfred Frost was a pioneer of the early 1900s who helped to develop much of the town as it is today. The Frost Partnership still occupy their original premises in Burke’s Parade.

The one day only exhibition is at the Fitzwilliam Centre in the Old Town.

It is open from 10.30am – 4.30pm. Signed books will be on sale for £18.99.

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