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March 22nd 2014
Published: June 3rd 2014
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Hugh and Den - those lovely guys in High Wycombe? No, Hughenden - just a mile or two down the road! Hughenden was the Buckinghamshire home from 1848 to 1881 of a former Prime Minister of Britain named Benjamin Disraeli. Disraeli - 'Dizzy' to his friends - was a Conservative politician. He served twice as Prime Minister - from February to December 1868 and again from February 1874 to April 1880... Read Full Entry



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Mike Fossey
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Once upon a time, I was something important in the UK travel industry, where I spent more than 35 years of my working life roaming the globe at someone else's expense. So, if you dream of living overseas on less than 10 Dollars a day, be warned: I'm an experienced, mature traveller - not a backpacker. You won't find stories here about me thumbing my way across the Sahara, slumming it in cockroach-infested hostels, or sharing a room with giant mosquitoes! Oh, and I'm British - so you can expect a stiff upper lip in times of adversity and a sense of humour that's often not understood by other... full info
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A view of the garden from the houseA view of the garden from the house
A view of the garden from the house
Apples in the Walled GardenApples in the Walled Garden
Apples in the Walled Garden
There's a small orchard of heritage apple varieties.
HelleboreHellebore
Hellebore
There were several of these, my all-time favourite plants, in a border in the Walled Garden.
In the basementIn the basement
In the basement
A tin hat and a paraffin lamp - reminders of wartime.
In the basementIn the basement
In the basement
This is the room in which the family took shelter during air raids in WWII.
A map showing Hughenden's strategic locationA map showing Hughenden's strategic location
A map showing Hughenden's strategic location
Another view of the basement during WWIIAnother view of the basement during WWII
Another view of the basement during WWII
Some of the hand-drawn mapsSome of the hand-drawn maps
Some of the hand-drawn maps
The map makers were also artists!The map makers were also artists!
The map makers were also artists!
Here's just one example of their humorous cartoons.
Another of the map-makers' cartoonsAnother of the map-makers' cartoons
Another of the map-makers' cartoons



18th June 2014

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

A bit of history
We always appreciate the way you weave a bit of history into your blogs. So many places to go and see.

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