TUDOR costumes were uniform for the day at Great Horwood School in March 1993.
The fourth and fifth year pupils and staff dressed up to mark the 350th anniversary of the death of Buckinghamshire MP John Hampden.
During the civil war he led a regiment of Buckinghamshire Militia against the Royalists and in the centre of Aylesbury there is a monument in his memory.
Steve Parish, of Past Alive which specialised in periods of history, helped the children experience the past by supplying original items of weaponry.
He joined in with the children by giving a practical history lesson and re-enacting sword fights for them.
He is pictured here with pupils and teachers Helen Wood and Sylvia Harpur.
Also in 1993:
- ...HOLY Trinity church in Gawcott is under threat of closure if a £70,000 target for repairs cannot be reached.
- ...IT was Spratton Hall who retained the Akeley Wood School under 13 rugby sevens title when they beat Beachborough School 10-0 in the final of this year's competition played at the school.
- ...PLAGUE-carrying American crayfish have made their home in the River Ouse after escaping from local ponds and are now heading for Buckingham, according to leading biologists.
100 YEARS AGO
- MISS Morgan last Saturday sent in her resignation of the position of nurse at the Buckingham Workhouse, and the members of the Board of Guardians resolved to advertise for a successor at the same salary, namely, £30 per year and £2.10s. in lieu of beer.
- AT one time one of the most flourishing and successful organisations of its kind in Buckinghamshire was the Newport Pagnell Cricket Club, but, from lack of public interest it is to experience a second year of suspension.
- A MOST enjoyable "social" was held at the Buckingham Working-men's Conservative Club on Thursday evening last, on the occasion of the opening of the new Reading-room.
50 YEARS AGO
- AFTER Buckingham Police had received a complaint that the roof of a car had been damaged by part of a tree stump which dropped out of the sky, they stopped blasting operations which had been taking place on the Pightle-Overnhill Housing Estate.
- OVER 100 members and guests were present at Twyford Women's Institute 25th Birthday party held in the village hall, which had been specially decorated with exquisite flowers for the occasion.
- BUCKINGHAM Town Council has made a momentous decision. After three years it hs been decided that the Trumpet Clock cannot possibly be installed in the clock tower of the Town Hall.
25 YEARS AGO
- BUCKINGHAM'S new car park on the Cornwall's Meadow site of the community hall and planned shopping area, is expected to be completed next month.
- THE end of an era, Buckingham family shoe shop Ernest Barnes and Company, Market Square, is to close on March 31 when the owner, Mr Bill Barlow retires.
- WHEN First Tingewick Brownies heard of the disastrous fire which recently swept through the Australian bush they felt they must find a way to help and so they held a coffee morning in the Old Sunday School, Tingewick, and raised £37 for the Australian Fire and Flood Fund.
