The Egham Museum Trustees are delighted to announce that Egham Museum has received an Arts Council England (ACE) grant of […]

We are excited to bring you our very first ‘Egham Oddities’ podcast. The Egham Museum is home to many wonderful […]

As part of our 2020 temporary exhibition, ‘Location, Location, Location: Egham and Area Behind and in Front of the Camera’, […]

Egham and Area Behind and in Front of the Camera Thursday 16th January – Saturday 13th June 2020 Our first […]

In this video produced in partnership with Royal Holloway University of London, Bill Thisdell shares the story of Thomas Holloway, […]

In this video, produced in partnership with Royal Holloway, University of London as part of our ‘Health, Holloway and Hype’ […]

2019 marked the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci – but how is he connected to Egham? […]

Residents, past and present of Egham Hythe in the borough of Runnymede in Surrey, share their memories of the area. […]

Only 2 days until Egham’s first one-day community music festival! Friday 21st June 2019 marks the first Egham Festival of Music. […]

Our next temporary exhibition, titled ‘Health, Holloway & Hype’ will explore Victorian businessman and philanthropist, Thomas Holloway, the marketing and […]

Read parts 1, 2 and 3 here Educating Girls The earliest schools were intended only for boys – even when […]

Read part 1 here and part 2 here School Rules Attendance: from the Egham School Board Bye-Laws 1901 No 2: […]

Read part 1 here Private Education Although Strode’s was a free school for the poor, its early headmasters supplemented their […]

The first recorded school in Egham seems to have been Strode’s School, built in 1706 from money left by Henry […]

During the Great War, an initiative to help and support all the wounded British soldiers hospitalised in UK or abroad […]