Bingo!! 🏆
Bingo!! 🏆
Painting of a grassy field with people playing sports and a building nestled in the trees.
🗺️ Where Are We Wednesday?
Hint: If you see this, it means Go!
The wooden bridge at Langham Pond surrounded by reeds.
A tree reaching out across Virginia Water Lake.
The sunset illuminating a buck at Windsor Great Park.
Wild flowers bouncing out at the Runnymede Meadows.
🌍 World Clean Up Day
Let’s look after our community. By keeping it clean we keep it beautiful and protect it for future generations…
📸 Leo John Davies.
Image: Person wearing a medical face mask and carrying a box containing lockdown help items. Text: Together to Help Each Other Various groups, such as the Egham and Englefield Green Covid-19 Mutual Aid Group, volunteered to help the vulnerable and isolated. Their duties involved dropping off shopping, collecting perscriptions, walking the dogs, and telephone chats for people feeling lonely.
Image: Royal Holloway’s Founders Building. Text: Opening Their Doors Other local organisations played their part by opening their doors to the community. Royal Holloway University in Englefield Green used its historic picture gallery as a testing site and Jays Pharmacy on Egham High Street acted as a vaccine centre.
Learn more…
Image: Close up render of coronavirus. Text: 25 Million Covid Cases world-wide... On the 30th August 2020, the amount of global recorded Covid-19 cases topped 25 million. How did Lockdown hit Egham?
Image: Yellow ‘COVID 19 Testing Centre’ direction sign. Text: A Country-Wide Community Like many places across the country and across the world, our community suffered many hardships during the Covid-19 pandemic, not least the loss of livelihoods and loved ones. This is how our area rallied together to respond...
On this day in 2020…
Painting, Where Are We Wednesday
🗺️ Where Are We Wednesday?
Hint: An island sitting beside the land of picnics and politics…
Guess The Artefact 🔎
Think you got it?
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I’m glad you asked… *turns to camera*
We’ve been working on an ambitious plan to have consistent and quality stories from our area’s past prepared all the way into Spring 2026.
The official kick off is this week! 🎉
Working on some very exciting behind the scenes content scheduling…
Luckily for everyone, we’ve now got stories from Egham’s amazing past prepared to share all the way into the future!
🚨 We’re Back 🚨
Check out our latest Explore Our Area…
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And stay tuned for even more BlueSky content 🎉
You will also be welcome to tea, coffee, and cake at the exhibition… we look forward to seeing you there! 🍰
The exhibition will be up for one month, we will be sharing photos throughout so stay up to date!
This event was made possible by support from the National Heritage Lottery Fund.
🎨 A Community Exhibition Coming to Our Museum…
From the 22nd July, our museum will be hosting an exhibition of beautiful local art, both historic and contemporary, as part of a collaboration with the Egham Watercolour Painting Group and the Lyne Watercolour Arts Group!
Seal of King John over the text of the Magna Carta. Text reads: What would you add?
Thursday Thoughts….
What would you add to your own Magna Carta?
Supporting schools…
A royal opening…
#OnThisDay
Today is the anniversary of Queen Victoria’s coronation…
🎥 Sir Felton buried in Egham but lived a life of action…
Watch now…
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Can you guess where this is in our area?
Hint: It takes its name from another ‘Great’ story… 🔍
🎥 Fact Friday…
Learn about these mini monoliths, found in our area!
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You’re exactly right!
However, Magna Carta Day is celebrated on the closest Saturday to the 15th each year.
There are also celebrations on Sunday, the actual anniversary, at the Runnymede, where it all began!
We’re excited to have our own stand at the Meadows on Sunday for the very first time!
📜 Happy Magna Carta Day!
To celebrate, let’s take a look at the most important story in our area…
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Two men stood outside the front of a shop.
#WhereAreWeWednesday
Welcome back to Where Are We Wednesday… think you got it?
Give it a go 🔍
#VEDay
On Monday, our team took the day out at the Runnymede Air Forces Memorial to commemorate the sacrifice of those who took part in the Second World War as well as reflect on how our area was impacted.
Looks like #TeamMerchantsHall is going strong already!
Rosie delivering a talk on the textile history of our area… with artefacts for show and tell!
Our museum loves to hear from you!
By engaging with our community we gain valuable insight into how to better tell the story of our amazing area’s past.
Our community working hard on some wonderful arts and crafts.
They met with locals at the Egham Library to discuss the textile history of our area, listen to their memories of the town, and create some wonderful artworks!
Rosie and Elise gathering valuable community insight at the Egham Library.
Elise and Rosie have been out in the community recently, hosting a fun and fact filled arts and craft workshop.
It sounds like the people want a rematch… 👀🏆