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Secret High Wycombe
Engelsk Paperback
Secret High Wycombe
Engelsk Paperback

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High Wycombe, or simply Wycombe, has had a long and remarkable past: the Royal military academy was founded in the town in the late eighteenth century before moving to Sandhurst; Charles I passed through on his way to the scaffold in 1649; and Benjamin Disraeli, MP for the town between 1874 and 1880, made his first political speech from a portico in the high street. Beneath the main high street is a honeycomb network of secret tunnels, originally thought to serve some clandestine purpose but in fact used by the brewery to transport beer to the many pubs throughout Wycombe as it was easier than negotiating the crowded streets. Nearby is the village of Penn, the ancestral home of William Penn, founder of the city of Philadelphia and from whom the state of Pennsylvania takes its name. His sons lie buried in the churchyard. Bizarrely, the same churchyard contains the graves of David Blakeley, murdered by Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and the infamous Soviet spy, Donald Maclean.In Secret High Wycombe, local author Eddie Brazil delves beneath the surface of this Buckinghamshire market town, revealing a lesser-known past that even most local people don’t know.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
96
ISBN-13:
9781445665306
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1445665301
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 jan 2017
Længde:
10mm
Bredde:
233mm
Højde:
167mm
Forlag:
Amberley Publishing
Oplagsdato:
15 jan 2017
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge