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Stanley Comben lived with his family in The Dial House, he was a member of the well-known  builders, Comben and Wakeling.

In this new article by Alison Bailey, Samantha Free, and Martin Pounce you can find out about a former famous Amersham resident, William Monk, He was one of England’s most famous architectural etchers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Read about Cecil Cave-Browne-Cave and his local home, Chesham Bois Place in theses new articles on the website by Peter Healy.

Click this link to read the latest article by Alison Bailey about Chesham Bois Common  

We apologise for any inconvenience caused, but we have had to cancel the Mini Museum scheduled for the 20th March.

The Museum will commemorate the events of 1521 when five men and one woman were sentenced to be burned because they were Lollards who insisted on reading the Bible in English and praying to God directly in English rather than Latin through their parish priest. There will be the fifth staging of a hugely successful […]

During WWII our area became a haven for evacuees. These included a group of Hampstead émigrés with two Viennese women artists, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky and Mary Duras at its centre.  Click on this link for this new article written for Bucks Free Press by Alison Bailey and Neil Rees.

The Youth Hostel Association (YHA) was established in England in 1930. The idea was to make the countryside available and affordable to stay in, for Britain’s growing young urban population. Seeing new buildings going up at Colwyn, 331 Chartridge Lane in Chesham made me reflect on its original use at a youth hostel. In this new […]