Diamond Princesses
The Koh-i-Noor, which is Persian for ‘Mountain of Light’, is one of the largest and most valuable cut diamonds in the world and belongs to the crown jewels of the United Kingdom set into the front of the crown of the Queen Mother. There are multiple...
Operation Aerial and a Forgotten Tragedy
After the successful evacuation of over 338,000 troops from Dunkirk ended on 4th June 1940 it still left a further 140,000 military personnel stranded and awaiting rescue from the St. Nazaire area of France. A similar evacuation known as Operation Aerial was...
Blotting On The Landscape
Looking at the River Wye today it is hard to imagine that the nine miles of river between High Wycombe and Bourne End once powered over 30 mill wheels, twenty of which were listed in the Domesday Book of 1086. Most of these started as corn mills and were a crucial...
White House Tunnel Disaster
The mammoth task of constructing the Marylebone to High Wycombe main railway line began in the late 1890’s and the direct link to Marylebone was opened a few years later on 2nd April 1906. Although some earth moving machinery was available, construction of the...