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 […]
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THE 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 […]
Read MoreAmersham Museum and Christmas Shop – December Opening
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 – […]
Read More200 Club Monthly Draw Winner
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 […]
Read MoreAmersham’s Anti-Slavery Movement
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 […]
Read MoreErnest (George) Weller
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 […]
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