Thomas Ashby officially founded the Ashby Family brewery in 1796. He started brewing beer in his own house and delivering […]

This object, a small tin Cadbury’s decorative chocolate box, was part of a wider collection gifted to children attending Egham […]

This blog is about a dirk and scabbard that was donated to Egham Museum in 1982 by Miss Trowbridge. There […]

At over 600, ‘Red Lion’ is the most popular pub name in the UK, referring to either the crests of […]

The Suffragettes needed a way to raise money for their cause and inspire the next generation to join the fight […]

When we think of the fight for women’s suffrage, one image often stands out in our minds. We imagine a […]

In May 2020, a portrait was discovered at Royal Holloway University that showed a woman in a black dress reading […]

The way that we treat the Suffragettes in popular culture, using their slogans and images on everything from posters, to […]

When I was pouring over Egham Museum’s newspaper collection, looking for traces of Suffragette and Suffragist activity, I was struck […]

This online exhibition explores the role of the Suffragettes and the Suffragists in the fight to gain women the right […]

Article by Hannah  It is ‘a rather cold and misty day’ on 4 September 1909 and 11,000 Boy Scouts are […]

Article researched and written by Maria Petts. Gwen Lally, born Gwendoline Rosalie Lally Tollendal Speck, was a prolific producer of […]

The High Street has seen a lot of changes in its history. Some of those changes can be traced using […]

The Egham Museum collection features over 1,000 objects related to the local area. We are working towards making some of […]