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AiM has recently completed its most important project yet - known as ROMADAM and sponsored by the Local Heritage Initiative - we have been recording Marlow's four major archaeological treasures and have published a book of our findings, available for £9.99 (incl postage). Contact John Laker for details.
The image in our header is the Pullingshill Wood WW1 Trenches that we surveyed as part of the ROMADAM project
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Red Hot Pokers and Vitriol – High Wycombe’s Swing Riots
During the summer of 1830, the Swing Riots (named after a mysterious rioter called Captain Swing) spread like wild fire across southern Britain. They started with attacks on the much hated (labour-displacing) threshing machines and continued with wage and tithe … Continue reading
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Professor Chris Stringer – on the early human occupation of Britain and Europe
Some AiM members were fortunate enough to attend an extraordinarily good Hedgerley Historical Society lecture by Professor Chris Stringer from the Natural History Museum. Chris is a world authority on the early development of humankind and a leading light in … Continue reading
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Coach routes from and to Marlow
Horse & Coach routes from and to Marlow Following the AiM Walk on Sunday the 13th of March, AiM has conducted some research that provides a few more pieces in the jig-saw. In the last AiM newsletter we speculated on … Continue reading
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Holy? – Well, Well, Well!
Holy? – Well, Well, Well! The veneration of water extends back “well” into prehistoric times. Ritual offerings were placed in it, shrines, temples, stone circles and avenues were built next to it, and ritual shafts and wells have been dug … Continue reading
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Atlantis: Plato’s lost continent
Atlantis: Plato’s lost continent A common element to all cultures is the desire to tell stories: they serve as explanations and warnings, and a promise of better things to come. One of the most familiar stories tells of an ancient … Continue reading
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The Thames – a Late Stone Age Lost & Found
The Thames – a Late Stone Age Lost & Found The River Thames is very much part of the lives of everyone living in its fertile valley. My story lies in the late stone age, (10-2,500 BC) and takes us … Continue reading
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Edgar Wallace, the King of Thrillers
Edgar Wallace, the King of Thrillers In Little Marlow cemetery rest the remains of Edgar Wallace, the prolific author who created the film legend King Kong. Wallace (1875 – 1932) was born in Greenwich of actor parents but, being the … Continue reading
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Two miracles in High Wycombe and a muddy shoe in Marlow
St. Wulfstan was the Saxon Bishop of Worcester both before and for nearly thirty years after the Conquest. He was a genuinely good and holy man. So good, in fact, that he very nearly became the Patron Saint of England … Continue reading
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The Pink Champagne Lady
In the graveyard of St James the Less’ church at Stubbings on Maidenhead Thicket rests one of the more colourful characters of post-second world war Britain. Nora, Lady Docker, whose headstone (see picture) also records her as Callingham, the name … Continue reading
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The enigma of Silchester’s Ogham stone
If you had been standing on the edge of a particular trench in Silchester on one day in 1893 and gazing down into the partially excavated shallow well associated with Insula IX (a house oddly angled at 45o to the … Continue reading
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