Please find below information about forthcoming events in Amersham. The Society’s lectures are usually in the Kings Chapel. If any member is unable to make his/her way to these meetings and would like transport to be arranged, please contact Geraldine Marshall-Andrew on 01494 433735.
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Charitable Fund, the charity that supports the local Bucks NHS Trust Hospitals, are hosting a charity event, ‘An evening with RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold winners’, in Old Amersham and asked us to spread the word.
The event will be on Thu 18 Sep from 19:30 to 21:30 in the Kings Chapel on Amersham High Street. Tickets are £15 and the ticket cost includes a welcome drink, a talk from the two RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold Winners about the ‘Room to Breathe’ Hospital Garden, which is being donated to Amersham Hospital, and a Q&A. There will also be a raffle on the night.
All money raised will go to the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Charitable Fund – and will be earmarked for ongoing work to relocate the ‘Room to Breathe’ Hospital Garden, as well as supporting the rest of the Gardens at Amersham Hospital. More details are available here.
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Join a guided Tudor Walk to learn about life – and death – in 16th century Amersham. The subjects include food and drink, markets and fairs, buildings and burgage plots, clothing and work, health and cures, religious beliefs and the Lollard martyrs.
The walk is led by guides in Tudor costume. It starts from the Museum, visits the church (weddings permitting!), then leaves the town and follows field paths. It lasts about 2¼ hours (short-cut possible) and includes a climb up through the fields (taken slowly).
To book tickets please click here.
Though few people nowadays have heard of him, Captain Thomas Mayne Reid was an adventurer and novelist who, in his day, had been a teacher, journalist, soldier-hero, slave overseer turned abolitionist, buffalo hunter, actor and playwright. 2018 saw the bi-centenary of the birth of this well-connected cowboy who sold his enthusiasm for America’s wild west to several generations of boys and who inspired many of them to seek their fortunes in the Empire and Colonies. More famous in his day than Rider Haggard or Captain Maryatt, he chose to build a massive Mexican-style mansion in Gerrards Cross for himself and his bride. His life story is a tale of adventure and derring-do, of romance and riches and finally, poverty and obscurity.
The speaker Denise Beddows is well known to the Society. Retired from government service, and with a background in research, investigation and intelligence analysis, Denise writes (as DJ Kelly) biographical fiction and local history, and (as Denise Beddows) true crime and spy thrillers.
Coffee/tea and biscuits will be available from 7.30pm. The talk starts at 8.00pm. No booking necessary. Guests and new members welcome.
This year’s Buckinghamshire Local History Network (BLHN) annual one-day Conference and Local History Fair will be held on Sat 4 Oct 2025 from 10am to 4pm (doors open at 9.30am) at the University of Buckingham Vinson Building.
The subject for 2025 is “FIRE! FIRE! BUCKS ON FIRE!”. It marks the 300th anniversary of the Great Fire of Buckingham, which destroyed 138 houses and left 507 people homeless. But thirteen years later Stony Stratford also burned, then Great Horwood in 1781, Cliveden House in 1795, Marlow in 1826… the blaze at Stoke Poges was seen by Queen Victoria from the windows of Windsor Castle. These fires, their causes and destruction, how they were fought, and what was done to prevent them happening will be the centrepiece for this year’s conference.
To view the full conference programme click here.
To book your conference tickets online click here.