This is the story of an Edwardian villa, Orchard House on Chesham Bois Common. It was built on land, known as How’s Orchard, once part of Manor Farm in Chesham Bois. The arrival of the railway in the ...

Various land-based fighters were converted to become seaplanes during the Second World War. A few were very impressive, like the Spitfire floatplanes; some of the others were, to put it kindly, ...