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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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.