#39 Letter from George Church of Olney, 1845, sent from Tasmania

  At the beginning of 1845 when this letter was written, George Church had been in Tasmania, known then as Van Diemans land, for two years. A labourer accustomed to looking after sheep, he had been sentenced to ten years transportation at the Quarter Sessions in Aylesbury in 1841 for stealing two ewes from his …

#38 Triceratops in the snow

Look at this fellow, defiant in the snow.  In this photograph the dinosaur is standing in Peartree Bridge, where it has become a local landmark since its creation in 1979.  We don't know the date of this snowy scene, but the quality of image leads me to hazard a guess at sometime in the 1990s.  The …

#37 Ravenstone School Curriculum 1903-1904

Ravenstone in 1903 was, as it still is today, a village just south of the border with Northamptonshire.  However in 1903 it was part of the county of Buckinghamshire; now it sits within the Borough of Milton Keynes. Another difference is that in 1903 it had its own school, with two teachers educating the village children of infant and …