Water in a Dry Landscape – Project Update from the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project Team
Date: 15th February 2022
News
A Year with the Chiltern New Shoots – our young conservationists
Date: 26th January 2022
What have we been up to these past twelve months as part of our youth programme?
Tracking the Impact: In Celebration of Volunteers
Date: 12th January 2022
Tracking the Impact - an online celebration of the role of the volunteers involved in this Citizen Science and conservation project.
A visit to the Embroidered Arts Exhibition in London in search of the lives of Holmer Green tambour beaders
Date: 09th December 2021
Find out what Susan Holmes discovered during a recent research trip to London and enjoy some amazing photographs of the delicate and intricate Chilterns craft of Tambour Beading!
Three generations of Batchelors – the rise and fall of a straw plaiting family
by Deborah Conway Read
Date: 25th November 2021
Follow the journey of the Batchelors through the Chilterns, the straw plait industry, vaccination programmes and controversies of the 1870s and much more in this fascinating piece of research.
Volunteering with the Chiltern Rangers – a young person’s perspective
Date: 25th October 2021
What is it REALLY like spending a day outdoors with our partners at Chiltern Rangers? Emily went to find out...
The Hatch Family: Chairmakers at Whielden Gate, Farmers at Woodrow
by Richard Ayres
Date: 04th October 2021
Enjoy this fascinating and in-depth family history researched by Richard Ayres, of the Hatch family of chairmakers and their lives in the Chilterns. A longer blog this time, to sit down with a cup of tea/coffee and enjoy the wonderful photographs of the family as well!
Ferrets, Food and Free Icecreams – Festival Fun with Chalk Cherries and Chairs
by Lizzie Krupa
Date: 19th August 2021
Despite a rainy start to the day, more than 600 people attended our summer festival Chilterns Celebration. Read Lizzie's write up about the ferret racing, lace making and woodturning fun...and the free ice cream! And find out more about the Chilterns Food Festival in October too, our next Chalk, Cherries and Chairs event for families, friends and foodies.
The Great War Brings Challenges to the Chairmakers
by Tony Sargeant
Date: 12th July 2021
The representative of the firm stated that they wished Tilbury put back. A band-sawyer was a skilled man, and he cut the wood up for the whole of the other employees. If the man was put back six months, preparations might be made...