Local Stories is a new programme from Amersham Museum. Join us on Zoom for 45 minutes of sharing stories about people and places from the past. Each interactive programme will […]
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RIDGE AND FURROW IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
A TALK BY JULIAN HUNT, 1ST MARCH AT 2:30 PM The landscape of North Buckinghamshire is full of ridge and furrow, the remains of common arable fields where each strip […]
Read MoreAmersham’s Link to Whaling
The Wellerman – Amersham’s unexpected link to whaling and the social media craze for sea shanties You may be aware that this is the chorus of a sea shanty that […]
Read MoreLocal Stories – A series of talks using ZOOM from Amersham Museum
Local Stories is a new programme from Amersham Museum. Join us on Zoom for 45 minutes of sharing stories about people and places from the past. Each interactive programme will […]
Read MoreLaelia Goehr – passionate photographer who lived in Amersham
A new article by Alison Bailey and Julia Crockatt Laelia Goehr (pronounced Leyla) was a Russian-born photographer who lived in Amersham in the 1940s. Laelia had a flourishing career in […]
Read MoreTHE GREAT BLIZZARD OF 1881
JANUARY 2021 MARKS THE 140TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WORST BLIZZARD IN RECENT BRITISH HISTORY. In mid January 1881 there was bitterly cold weather throughout Wales and southern England below the […]
Read MoreAmersham Home Guard
The museum has received some documents about Major Marston of Chenies Manor who commanded the 11th Bucks Battalion of the Home Guard. They were donated by Colonel Marston’s grandson Charles […]
Read MoreDouglas Lionel Mays
A new article on former local resident, Douglas Lionel Mays by Alison Bailey. D L Mays (as he was usually known) was a Punch cartoonist and an illustrator of children’s […]
Read More200 Club Monthly Draw Winner
The winners in reverse order of our bumper Christmas 2020 draw are: 3rd= number 10, Val Russell £50 3rd= number 61, Susan Gotch £50 2nd number 41, Liz Chalmers £100 […]
Read MoreAmersham Museum is awarded the Sandford Award!
We’re absolutely delighted to announce that we have been awarded a 2020 Sandford Award for education. The award recognises high-quality formal education programmes, run at heritage sites across Britain. The […]
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