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 […]
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Vacancy for a Retail Volunteer
Amersham Museum is looking for a volunteer Retail Manager. The key responsibilities are: To manage the museum shop and oversee changes made to the presentation and range of our merchandise […]
Read MoreAMERSHAM IN LOCKDOWN – ONLINE EXHIBITION
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 […]
Read MoreThe Regent – Amersham’s lost cinema
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 […]
Read MoreLOCAL STORIES – 20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE
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 MoreRIDGE 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 […]
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The museum is closed for the winter, we will reopen on Saturday 11th February 2023.
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