Like communities across the country, Egham, Englefield Green, Thorpe and Virginia Water residents felt the impact of war.  Men were […]

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 […]