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History
- AMERSHAM OLD TOWN BUILDINGS
- Broadway North (odd nos.)
- Broadway South (even nos.)
- Church Street
- High Street North (odd nos.)
- 1-19 High St
- 109-115 High St
- 117-119 High St
- 121-129 High St
- 131-139 High St
- 141-143 & The Eagle
- 153-163 High St
- 165-189 (Turpin’s Row)
- 191 (Town Mill)
- 21-23 High St (Market Walk)
- 25 High St
- 27 High St (The Gables)
- 29 High St
- 31,33,33A High St
- 35,37,39 High St
- 41 High St (Red Lion House)
- 43-47 High St
- 49 High St (The Museum)
- 51-55 High St
- 57-69 High St
- 71-87 High St (Almshouses)
- 89-95 High St
- 99A-107 High St
- Elephant & Castle & 99
- Methodist Church and 147-151
- High Street South (even nos.)
- 106 (Town Farm) -112 High St
- 122 (Swan Inn) -128 High St
- 130 High St (Piers Place)
- 132 High St (Hinton House)
- 134 High St (Little Shardeloes)
- 146-150 High St
- 152-160 High St
- 18-22 High St & Ward Place
- 2-16 High St
- 24-28 High St
- 30 High St (King’s Arms)
- 32-38 High St
- 40 & 42 (Elmodesham House) High St
- 46-54 High St
- 56-60 High St (The Worthies)
- 62-68 High St
- 70-80 High St
- 82-92 High St
- 94-104 High St (Almshouses)
- Baptist Chapels
- Coldmoreham
- London Road West
- Market Square
- School Lane (Back Lane)
- Shardeloes
- The Old Rectory
- The Platt
- Tudor Buildings
- Whielden St East (even nos.)
- Whielden St West (odd nos.)
- AMERSHAM-ON-THE-HILL BUILDINGS
- A walk around Amersham-on-the-Hill
- Businesses & Shops
- Elm Close, Amersham
- Expansion towards Chesham Bois Common
- High & Over
- Houses in the new town
- Lost landmarks of Amersham
- Regent Cinema – Amersham’s Lost Cinema
- St John’s Methodist Church
- Sycamore Road Shops
- The Gables, Hervines Road
- Turret House
- White Steading
- Woodside Farm
- Woodside Junior School
- CHESHAM BOIS BUILDINGS
- LITTLE CHALFONT
- Metro-Land Exhibition
- OTHER TOPICS
- Amersfoort’s stone
- Amersham – 1790 & 1824
- Amersham Films
- Amersham in 1851
- Amersham placenames and their origins
- Amersham’s name since 1066
- Amersham’s Anti-Slavery Movement
- Amersham’s Link to Whaling
- Black voices and the local anti-slavery movement
- Celebrating coronations in Amersham
- Chesham Bois Trail
- Contributors
- Discovering the history of your house
- Elections in Amersham
- Graffiti
- History of the Chesham and Amersham Constituency
- House History Detective
- How Amersham’s rural past is reflected in our placenames
- Maps
- Memories
- NEW LIGHT ON THE ORIGINS OF COPPERKINS LANE
- Reference (Census, Population etc.)
- Religion
- Sickness and Health – From Pest House to Workhouse
- Soup Kitchens
- Sport & Entertainment
- Amersham & Chiltern RFC – 1924-30
- Amersham Marathon
- Amersham Playgoers
- Amersham Town Band
- Chesham Bois Cricket Club
- Cricketing Rectors
- Cygnet Swimming Baths
- Nearly 100 years of rugby in Amersham
- The Amersham Playhouse 1936-1949
- The Amersham Playhouse 1949-1956
- The Music Studio in Chestnut Close
- Theatres and cinemas
- The Academy
- The Ancient Chilterns
- The Civil War and Bucks
- The Great Blizzard of 1881
- The Old Cooking of Bucks
- The Plague in Amersham
- Transport
- Walking In The Footsteps of William Shakespeare
- When the Queen came to Amersham in 1962
- When the Queen drove through Amersham and Chesham in 1952
- Whielden Street’s name
- World War 1
- A VAD in WW1France
- Absent voters 1918
- Amersham Bells – 1916 poem
- Amersham in 1914
- Amersham in Flanders poem
- Amersham Remembers (U3A project)
- Chesham Bois War Memorial
- Commemoration
- Going to War
- Miss Porter and the Chesham Bois Scouts in WWI
- Music of the Great War
- Post War Experience
- Pre-war games with guns
- Recruiting
- Soldiers & sailors from Amersham (WW1)
- The Home Front
- The WW1 Amersham Appeals Tribunal: A Neglected Source?
- Winchmore Hill
- Women at War
- WW2 and the 1940s
- Amersham Home Guard
- Bunny Johnson
- Chalfont St Giles in the 1940s
- Colin Hunt – a tribute
- Homefires and Havens exhibition
- Intelligence and interrogation
- James Bond – The Amersham Connection
- Latimer House – a very secret war
- Monuments of WW2
- The Secret History of Roughwood Park
- VE Day in Amersham
- Wartime Jewish Amersham
- Winchmore Hill – VE Day 1945
- WW2 diaries of Mabel Brailsford
- WW2 preparations
- WW2 reminiscences
- WW2 submarine from Amersham
- Wycombe Heath
- Youth Hostelling in the Chilterns
- Our Lionesses – Amersham Angels
- PEOPLE
- 17th & 18th Centuries
- 19th Century
- Arthur Pearson Luff
- Bertram Louis Abrahams
- Bessie Dorrington Bangay (1889-1987)
- Bryan Family
- Buildings by George Gilbert Scott in the Amersham and Chesham area
- Charles Olney (1852-1924)
- Emily Ann Bettesworth
- George Ward 1860-1943
- H N Brailsford 1873-1958
- Henrietta Busk
- Horace Freeman 1889-1980
- Jim Gilbert 1897-1996
- John Cocks, Baptist Minister
- John William Garrett Pegg 1853-1920
- Joseph Hatch 1849-1943
- Louise Jopling 1843-1933
- Martha Morris 1813-1888
- Mr Matthews, choirmaster and farmer
- Reg Mason 1895-1981
- Sir Frederick Mott 1853-1926
- The Brazils of Amersham
- The Cheese family
- The Colenso family and Elangeni
- The Line Family
- The Richardson Sisters
- The Rossetti and Polidori families
- The Toovey family
- Thomas Ayres senior & junior
- 20th Century
- Aileen Kilburn
- Alfred Ellis (1868 -1936)
- Allan Campbell 1914-2005
- Allan Gray (Josef Zmigrod)
- Aneurin Bevan in Chesham
- Arthur Machen
- Augusta North (1878-1978)
- Beatrix Potter in Amersham
- Bob Grace
- Brave Spitfire pilot’s last moments
- Caroline Franklin – an early woman in the ‘public sphere’
- Catharine and Sydney Renée Courtauld
- Cecil Beckwith Cave-Browne-Cave
- Christopher Collins
- David James
- Doreen Wright – Pioneering Sportswoman
- Douglas Lionel Mays
- Dr. Beatrice Turner (1891-1964)
- Edith Bigland (1862-1951)
- Elsie King 1905-1996
- Eric Corns MBE 1913-1997
- Formidable Women – 1940s
- Formidable Women 1914
- Francesco Ticciati and the Music Studio
- Fred Stubbings
- Fritz Lustig
- Giorgia Pearce and the Music Studio
- Gwen Pridmore 1920-2007
- Harriet Cohen
- Henry Gristwood
- Hugh Franklin (1889-1962)
- J H Kennard 1883-1926
- Jane Combes nee Padget
- Jean Archer 1926-2004
- Jeff Keedle MBE 1928-1996
- John Simmons
- Katie Krone
- Lady Amy Byng Hall Scott
- Laelia Goehr
- Lt Col Arthur Alan and Amelie Hanbury Sparrow
- MacDonald Family
- Madeline Agar
- Major Herbert Edward Harold Eayres
- Margaret and Ramsay MacDonald
- Margaret Rosina Baker, Leading Aircraftwoman (1921-1944)
- Margery Abrahams
- Marie-Louise von Motesiczky 1906-1996
- Mary Duras
- Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois
- Mary ‘Polly’ England and Dr Humphrey England
- Matthews Bros
- Maurice Edelman – Politician and Best-selling Author
- Mona Steele Price Gooden
- Muriel Matters (1877-1969)
- Pat Harrison 1905-1998
- Philip Plumbly 1917-2007
- Princess Sophia Duleep Singh (1876-1948)
- Reminiscences of Local People
- Rifleman William Palmer POW (1896-1918)
- Roy Ferdinand
- Sejal Sachdev’s Refugee Story
- Sergeant Harry Kleiner (1911-1943)
- Sergeant Keith Russell Baker
- Sir Arthur Binny Scott
- Stan Pretty – the life of a jobbing actor
- Stanley Comben
- Stephen Frederick Gooden
- The Harbens and Newland Park
- Tony Woodcock 1926-2003
- Two Talented Women Artists in Exile during WWII
- William Gomm of Chesham Bois
- William Monk
- Wladzia Tanska
- Women at War, Local suffrage campaigners
- Written during World War 2 by Ernest (George) Weller
- “VERY OLD FRIENDS”: RAMSAY MACDONALD AND THE COLENSOS OF CHESHAM BOIS
- Before 1600
- Schools and Education
- Cox & Drayton’s Ladies’ School
- St. Nicholas School, White Lion Road
- The British Schools, Amersham
- 1. Amersham Schools in 1842
- 10. The British Schools Museum at Hitchin
- 2. Nonconformity in the 1840s
- 3. Why choose a British school?
- 4. Establishment of the British Schools in Amersham
- 5. Amersham British Schools 1842 – c1867
- 6. Schoolmistresses and Schoolmasters
- 7. Closure
- 8. Sources
- 9. Aids to further research
- ‘Giffies’ The Chiltern School
- Shardeloes Babies 1939-1948
- Trades & Industries
- Amersham & District Permanent Building Society
- Amersham Cotton Mill
- Amersham Gas Works
- Amersham Toys
- Amersham’s Modern Alchemists / GE Healthcare
- Black Lace
- Boughtons of Bell Lane
- Brazils Sausages & Pies
- Brewing, Inns, Pubs and Ale Houses
- Building materials
- Chair making in the Chilterns
- Charter and Cattle Fairs
- Clocks
- Coleshill Water Tower
- Cottage Industries of Bucks
- Fox’s Outdoor
- Goya – cosmetics and perfumes
- Postal Services in Amersham
- Textile production in Amersham
- The Maltings
- The Old Pharmacy
- William Gomm and Sons Ltd
- VJ Day Anniversary
- WINCHMORE HILL
Plan Your Visit
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Sunday, and Bank Holiday Mondays, 12noon to 4:30pm
49 High Street
Old Amersham
Buckinghamshire
HP7 0DP
01494 723700
[email protected]
“Enjoyed our visit to this wonderful interactive museum where you are positively encouraged to touch things!”
“Visited Amersham museum yesterday – lovely place, provides many details on the history of the place. Plenty of cute cafes, pubs and shops around also… not difficult to find free parking nearby. ”
“A well-run, informative and interesting small museum on the main street. It’s mostly volunteer-run and they do a great job in keeping it and making you feel welcome…Check out the herb garden too.”
“Enjoyable film and television location guided walk around Amersham hosted by Amersham Museum – here are the Sun Houses on Highover Park and further up the hill is High & Over.”
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