The Chilterns Conservation Board has launched a new publication celebrating our celebrities. From world-famous authors like Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton to prime ministers, royalty, business tycoons and flamboyant hell-raisers, the Chilterns has been home to a huge number of…
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Chilterns Treasured Natural Heritage To Cherish. Not Ludicrous HS2
First The month started with the High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill in the Queen’s Speech. This allows the Department of Transport to spend more money, but no definitive figure is given and no accounts will be issued until after the…
Chiltern Steam Rally 6/7 July 2013
06/07/2013: 10:30 pm - 7:30 pm
07/07/2013: 10:30 am - 6:30 pm
07/07/2013: 10:30 am - 6:30 pm
The Chiltern Steam Rally will be taking place over the week-end of Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 July 2013 at the well signposted site near Prestwood, postcode for SatNav HP16 9HQ – the A4128 between Great Missenden and High Wycombe.…
Chesham Lawyers Join Access To Justice Protest
Chesham barristers Emily Culverhouse and Jon Mack joined a protest in support of access to criminal justice. The rally outside the Palace of Westminster on Wednesday 22 May 2013, saw 500 barristers and solicitors voice concern at proposed cuts to…
Steam Back on the Met on 25 to 27 May
Get updates on this from www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/events/vehicles-on-the-move Thanks to Clive Foxell for reporting that Steam is Back on the Met on Saturday 25 to Monday 27 May 2013. You can experience the golden age of steam with the return of the…
Posted in Family, Seniors, History
Wraps Off the United Reformed Church in Chesham Broadway
United Reformed Church in Chesham Broadway which has been hiding behind big black hoardings for the past eight months, will emerge in mid-May. All the work renovating the inside will be revealed. Even members of the Congregation have not been…
Recent Archaeological Finds in the Chess Valley 17 May
The Chess Valley Archaeological and Historical Society (CVAHS) will hold its final meeting for this season on Friday 17 May 2013. The talk is the one that had to be postponed in January because of the snow. It will be…
Trace Your Family Tree At Chesham Library
Go along to one of the drop in sessions for support and advice on tracing your family tree and accessing and using online resources. Free access to Ancestry, C19th British Library newspapers, the Times Digital Archive and more. It is…
Amersham Museum’s Metro-land Exhibition
Metro-land, the birth of Amersham-on-the-Hill, runs from Tuesday 14 May to Saturday 1 June 2013. It is open every day from 10am-4pm except Sunday 19 and Monday 20 May. The exhibition features objects, photographs, documents and oral history testimonies, as…
Chesham Town Picture a Fine English Primitive Painting
On Wednesday 24 April 2013 the Chesham Town Picture was unveiled by the Mayor Cllr Colette Littley in the Museum, Market Square. Elizabeth Payne of the Francis Trust thanked the Chesham Library for displaying the picture for the last 30…
Mayoral Jump into Chesham Swimming Pool Fun From Noon
The Moor Gym and Swim – Chesham’s friendly community sports centre – is holding a fun day on Saturday 4 May 2013 from noon-5pm. This is the day for the annual tradition of opening of the swimming pool by the…
Chiltern Voice Reaches Afar
Chiltern Voice for Chesham has heard from another distant reader. John Wood Hopkinson left Chesham in 1954 to join the New Zealand Navy for eight years. ‘I never thought there would be so much to do in Chesham,’ he says…
Posted in History
33rd Amersham Millennium Lecture
Scripture and Science – trying to untangle the knot is a lecture presented by the Reverend Canon Angela Tilby, Diocesan Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and Continuing Ministerial Advisor for the Oxford Diocese. Before ordination Angela worked as a…
Rotary Study Team from Auckland Visits Amersham
The Rotary Foundation’s Group Study Exchange (GSE) program is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for business people and professionals between the ages of 25 and 40 who are in the early stages of their careers. The program provides…
Three Chesham Commons or Manorial Wastes
Throughout the Chilterns there are groups of people looking into the history, environment and uses of their local commons. Here in Chesham three people are on the case – Andrew Clark, Ken Austin and Jean Staveley. Jean said, ‘There are…
Captain’s Wood Chesham Coveted & Cared for by Chiltern Society
Camilla Goodman reported in the Bucks Examiner on Thursday 4 April 2013 that the Chiltern Society is negotiating to take control of Captain’s Wood Chesham from Bucks County Council (BCC). (Conservationists: We will look after wood). Captain’s Wood (11 hectares)…
CVAHS – Who Repairs Chesham’s St Mary’s? (17th Century)
The next meeting of the Chess Valley Archaeological and Historical Society (CVAHS) will be held on Friday 19 April 2013 when the President of the Society and well-local personality Tim Yates, will give a talk entitled Richard Bowles and conflict…
Posted in History, Voluntary, Charity
CDC Consults on DDPD and Springfield Road Travellers Site
Chiltern District Council (CDC) is seeking public participation at this stage of its Delivery Development Plan Document (DDPD) which follows the Core Strategy adopted in November 2011. The DDPD will contain more detailed policies, land use allocations and proposals to…
CDC Consults on Taking South, Hyde Heath & Botley Out of Green Belt
07/06/2013: 5:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Bucks Free Press reporter Andy Carswell broke the following alarming story last Saturday 30 March 2013 Green Belt plan would be council’s ‘biggest mistake’. Andy said, ‘Chiltern District Council (this week) announced it has been ordered to review its planning…
Museum Talk ‘Year as Chesham’s Mayor’ at Chesham Library 2.30pm 15th April
My Year as Chesham’s Mayor is the subject of a talk by Councillor Colette Littley, on behalf of Chesham Museum at Chesham Library, 2.30pm on Monday 15 April 2013 Mayor Colette Littley has been a great supporter to the museum,…