Read part 1 here Holloway Sanatorium: Treatments, Staff and the NHS Treatments: A Healthy State of Mind Prior to the […]

Thomas Holloway: The Marketing Giant Fortune and Legacy Thomas Holloway was born in Devonport in Devon on 22 September 1800.  […]

Read part one of Women: Wives, Workers and War here. Pre-war Life for Women Before the Great War, the reality […]

Introduction & Acknowledgements The Egham Museum’s previous exhibition Suffrage in Egham, explored the roles of women and their fight locally […]

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 […]

Women’s Work As they had in the first world war, the lives of women changed drastically during World War Two. […]

Henry Strode (1645-1704) Henry Strode (1645-1704), was born into an old Egham family but lived most of his life in […]

Planning & Opening Plans for a railway line to connect Egham with Waterloo were first proposed as early as 1846.  […]

Plague was a common occurrence in Early Modern England.  Across the country, thousands of people died and communities were devastated. […]

Listen to Peer Productions’ pilot podcast about forgotten woman Roberta Cowell.  Recorded live in December 2017 at the Studio Theatre, […]