Just Williams Part 9 – some of the Victorian tradesmen who shaped Egham High Street and Englefield Green
This short series of articles by Margaret Stewart has been looking at some of the businesses which began trading in […]
This short series of articles by Margaret Stewart has been looking at some of the businesses which began trading in […]
Thomas Ashby officially founded the Ashby Family brewery in 1796. He started brewing beer in his own house and delivering […]
This short series of articles by Margaret Stewart has been looking at some of the businesses which began trading in […]
The identity of a Cooper’s Hill man was an ideal to live up to. The Cooper’s Hill man was ‘a […]
The Royal Indian Engineering College (RIEC or Cooper’s Hill) was founded in Egham in 1871 on the insistence of Sir […]
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 […]
What is so interesting about a baby powder box? One might ask this question when shown this object. This blog […]
This short series of articles, by Margaret Stewart, has been looking at some of the businesses which began trading in […]
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 […]