Walter Rose Papers

Literary Manuscripts, Notebooks and Other Papers of Walter Rose (1871-1960), of Haddenham, Local Historian and Author

D 159/1 - 6 Mss of Books by Walter Rose

D 159/7 - 12 Broadcasts and talks by Walter Rose

D 159/13 - 28 Notebooks

D 159/29 - 35 Miscellaneous

<p>For other Rose family records see B.R.O. D 126</p>

(Accession AR 50/79).

AR 98/84

Walter Rose came of a family that has lived in Haddenham for over four centuries. He was trained as a carpenter and builder and his book, The Village Carpenter, first published in 1937, is a classic of its kind. Its successor, Good Neighbours, (1942), an account of pre-1914 life in an unnamed village easily recognisable as Haddenham, also enjoyed wide popularity. In an earlier booklet entitled Fifty Years Ago, published in the 1920s, he gives a short portrait of the Haddenham of his childhood. Unpublished works include: "Haddenham Quaker History" (1916); "I See My Village" (1946) and "Eighty Years of Village Life" (1953). A selection of extracts from the last two of these, together with some of Rose's articles printed in the local parish magazine, edited by Elsie M. Rose and Peter Gulland, was published in 1981