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Catching up on events since last year's AGM
Once again the Society took part in the Annual Town Festival. The Chair, Chris Kingham, led two well-attended walks through the Conservation Area, generating some £60 in donations to the Society. On the main Festival Day we held a very successful Exhibition back in the Literary Institute by the kind invitation of its Committee. It was particularly encouraging to see  youngsters showing keen interest in the items on display. Some two hundred visitors attended in a steady stream throughout the day and hopefully, we will be welcoming some of them to our meetings.

 

The Committee is pleased to announce the opening of the 2023 -24 Programme on Monday 4th September 

Members will be aware that at last year's AGM the Society was unable to recruit new members to the Committee and, sadly, that remains the position. However, our Chairman, Chris Kingham, has continued to act as Programme Organiser. He will open the programme with a talk about the Gow family of Whiteleaf and the Gow Memorial Library they established there. This was for many years the only public lending library available to the people of Risborough, which they happily visited by walking across the fields via the footpath from Berryfield Road (see image on the Sites of Local Interest page)

Subsequent speakers include Will Phillips, the Keeper of Social History at the County Museum, now re-named as the Discover Bucks Museum, Mike Farley, former County Archaeologist, and Briony Hudson, Director of Amersham Museum.

Addition to the Meetings Programme (for full details see Meetings Programme Page)

 On December 4th we will be treated to a talk by Dr. Graham Twemlow on the Golden Age of Posters in Britain, those wonderful works of art that many will remember, particularly from railway journeys. Dr. Twemlow was a University Lecturer in Design and Printing History and the Decorative Arts. In his retirement he is well-known as both author and speaker in these subjects.

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