Stories about Chesham on other websites:

Childhood in Chesham

• Reginal Joseph (Reggie) Gray
• Reggie Gray, - schooldays in the 1940s
• Pauline Bates, growing up in Pednor in the 1940s
• Fred Reynolds, School in the late 1940s/early 1950s
• Bill Reynolds, School in the 1940s
• Pauline Bates, May Queen Celebrations at Townsend Road School in the 1940s
• Gwenyth Hill, Townsend Road School Junior Girls School, Autumn 1941 - Summer 1943
• Gwenyth Hill, Newton Infants' School Boys and Girls, summer 1938 to summer 1941
• Iris Lloyd, Evacuation
• Pam Bayliss, Townsend Road School
• Hilda Flello, Hilda Flello, One Hundred Years in Chesham
• Ron Mayne, Earning Pocket Money in the 1930s
• Ron Mayne, White Hill Infants in the 1920s
• Christie Mulkern, Waterside Infants' School
• Christie Mulkern, Childhood in Bois Moor Road
• Christie Mulkern, Chesham Bois Church of England School
• Alice Culverhouse, Education in the early 20th century
• Alice Culverhouse, Childhood homes in Bellingdon Road
• Daisy Rose Hunt, Chesham Vale in the Twenties & Thirties
• Joe Baker, boyhood in Chesham and Howard Brothers woodware factory
• Lawrence Lacey, After School Jobs
• Maurice Payne, After School and Summer Jobs
• Maurice Payne, Fun and Games
• Kath Geary, schooldays and Chiltern Teddy Bears
• Lawrence Lacey, Townfield Yard in the Twenties
• Ray King, schooldays in Chesham in the 1930s.
• Margaret Johnson, a hospital stay in the 1940s.
• Daisy Rose Hunt, teenage years

Working in Chesham

• Barry Wilkins, Cooper at Chesham and Brackley Brewery in the 1950s
• John Ellis, Pretty & Ellis Estate Agents
• Christie Mulkern, Bootboy in Chesham Bois
• Hilda Flello, Hilda Flello, One Hundred Years in Cheshams
• Joe Baker, boyhood in Chesham and Howard Brothers woodware factory
• Des Wright, The Rural Roadman
• Alex Broad, Chesham brush makers - the Broad family connection
• Eileen King, a nurse at Chesham Cottage Hospital in the 1940s.
• Edith 'Edie' Hailey who worked at Shillakers handbag factory from 1929.

Chesham Characters

• Helen Gooding, 'Chesham Characters'
• Lawrence Lacey remembers Tom Goff and Mrs Holland of Townfield Yard
• Maurice Payne remembers 'Jelly Belly', 'Specs' and 'Long Dick'
• George Piggin remembers 'The Cat Man'
• George Piggin, Chesham Pleasure Fair

Church Life

• Kath Dolling, The Salvation Army

World War II

• Kath Dolling, Evacuation

Do you have a story to tell about living and working in Chesham? We'd love to hear from you.

Contact Lesley Perry on 01494 773513, use the Guestbook to send us a message or call in to the Museum in Bellingdon Road (behind the Gamekeepers Lodge public house) Sunday, Wednesday or Friday afternoons between 2pm and 4pm.