Contents of box marked "Old Churchyard I"

Containing: engraving of Taplow Court, 1829; details of inscriptions on 109 graves in Taplow Old Churchyard, with location map, and of graves in the "Orkney Vault"; memorial about old churchyard, 1872; sketch of the old churchyard and ruin, by James Rutland, 1849; notes about brasses in Taplow Church, 1913; extracts from churchwardens' account book 1706-1804 (1 bdl.); copy of part of inclosure map 1788 [C19-C20]; newscuttings about archaeology of Taplow, 1927; correspondence of W.H. Grenfell about local history, 1913-1942; miscellaneous notes made by B.C. Dixon of Streatham about Taplow's history, inc. reports of searches at British Museum etc.; notes about Murrough O'Bryan 5th Earl of Inchiquin, and extract from Court Leet and Baron (29 Dec.1770) about turning of a footpath in Upper Bapsey; copy grant of Old Pound to the Earl of Orkney (31 Dec.1831); postcard of "The Mother Church, Taplow, 1815" [see D-GR/84/2]; photographs of Springfield House with 18 people (13 named, c.1880), Taplow Post Office and street (10 people, c.1900), brasses in church, n.d.; water colour "View from Maidenhead Bridge of an inlet of the Thames showing Sir R. Palmer's villa with Clifden in the distance - on the right are the woods of Taplow Court" by G.F. Proper, 1869-70 "from dear granmother April 13, 1874"; sections showing phosphatic chalk at Bapsey, 1891, down to 60 feet [see D-GR/84/3]; exercise book containing "Taplowania" including names of highways, ages of certain houses, rectors' names, details from sale catalogue of 1852 [see D-GR/19/1-3], former occupiers of certain lands, record of barrow excavation, 1883(1), proceedings of Committee for Peace Celebrations, 1919; and description of celebrations.

[A.R. 35/53]