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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The museum is open just for the next two weekends – 5th/6th/12th/13th 12-4.30pm The Christmas shop (only and not the museum) is open Thursday 3rd – 10am-2pm Friday 4th – […]

November’s winners of the £100 cash prize with number 63 are Alison & John Bailey.   There is a big bonus draw for December, with a first prize of £400 […]

In this new article by Alison Bailey, she looks at Amersham’s Anti-Slavery Movement. In March 1824 Captain Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake, MP, presented parliament with a petition for the abolition of colonial slavery […]

An interesting account of a local family written during WWII by Ernest (George) Weller and provided by his daughter Sheila Maureen Boyle – nee Weller. I do not expect the […]