This morning, a 12-panel mural was installed outside the Royal Mail office, Hill Avenue. The mural – an Amersham Town Council initiative as part of an intergenerational project – was created by staff and students from Buckinghamshire College Group (Amersham Campus) in collaboration with Amersham Museum. In 2021, volunteers of all ages interviewed a number […]
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We are pleased to report that Amersham in Bloom picked up a gold award for the Memorial Gardens at the Thames and Chilterns in Bloom presentation ceremony in Woodley this afternoon. Scoring 28 out of 30, it was our best result to date (for the Memorial Gardens)- an amazing achievement, and quite a considerable one, […]
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Representatives from the Town Council, Buckinghamshire College Group, Amersham Action Group, Royal Mail and Amersham Museum, including members of the reminiscence group, were joined by Town Mayor Cllr. Elizabeth Shepherd as she unveiled the mural outside the Royal Mail Sorting Office this morning. Inspired by stories from the reminiscence group, Buckinghamshire College designed and painted […]
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Last week, we completed phase one of an exciting project to create a mini urban forest on the verge opposite Amersham Station in Chiltern Ave. The verge, despite being relatively narrow, proved the perfect location for a ‘pocket forest’. Providing a wow factor winter with its vivid white bark, nine Himalayan birch trees (Betula utilis […]
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It may be mid-October but there are still plenty of blooms throughout Amersham. The pockets of wildflowers, tubs and borders are unseasonably pretty, offering a wealth of colour and interest in today’s sunshine. As the season draws to a close, the Town Council would like to thank the ever-committed bloom volunteers, the talented leaders of […]
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Over the past couple of weeks bloom volunteers, members of the Town Council team and pupils from Stony Dean School have joined forces to commence a project to plant over 25,000 bulbs throughout Amersham. We have planted tulips, daffodils, alliums, bluebells, crocuses, snowdrops and snowflakes (the latter have been planted in Chiltern Avenue amongst the […]
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