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Join artist Katy Cook for a wonderful pastel workshop. Inspired by the works of artist Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Katy will teach you techniques in using pastel to create fantastic images […]

Families can explore some of the wonderful details of Amersham old town with our town trail. The trail has been beautifully illustrated by artist Livi Gosling, and produced with the […]

ELM CLOSE, ONE OF AMERSHAM’S BEST KEPT SECRETS by Alison Bailey An experimental, post WWI housing development, just a stone’s throw from Amersham Station, is one of Amersham’s best kept […]

George Ward (1860–1943) was well known in Amersham as a town councillor, cycle and motor engineer, founder of Amersham Town Band and a keen photographer.   Please click on this […]

The Chiltern U3A Camera Group launched a project to document life in Amersham during the lockdown and here we display a selection of their images taken during this time. Click […]

by Alison Bailey March 2021  LAST HOUSE FOR THE REGENT In Amersham-on-the-Hill, 59 years ago this week, 100s of people could be seen queueing down Sycamore Road. They were waiting […]

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 […]

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 […]