About the River & Rowing Museum The River & Rowing Museum inspires escape and exploration, telling the many stories of the River Thames and celebrating the wildlife that calls it home. Beyond its beautiful riverside location in Henley on Thames and award-winning building, the Museum’s doors open onto art, history, conservation, and the international sport

Pictures above show: – an aerial view taken with a camera – the same view showing surface features when surveyed with LiDAR   Dr Ed Peveler of the Chilterns Conservation Board spoke to us on 6th April about the contribution of LiDAR to understanding the archaeological landscape of the Chilterns. LiDAR uses an aircraft-mounted laser

Local social and transport history of the Henley & Marlow Area This book is the first of a series of three planned by Paul Lacey on the early independent bus and coach operators of the Thames Valley, complementing already-published works on West Berkshire and Reading. The second book will cover the Bracknell, Crowthorne and Wokingham

On 5th January, Megan Aldrich, adjunct professor of architectural and design history at Richmond, the American University,  gave an informative and beautifully illustrated talk on Augustus Welby Pugin (1812-1852), the famous architect and designer. The Pugins were a French family who settled in London away from the insecurity in their home country. Augustus was trained

For anyone interested in what is being revealed by the Lidar investigation of the Chilterns, got to this website: ChilternBeacons    

One of the Group’s members, Dr Michael Redley, gave a fascinating and well-researched talk on 1st December about the association of water supply and waste treatment with the growth of late Victorian Henley. In the middle of the Nineteenth Century, the supply of water to households in Henley was through hundreds of wells. Human and

The Arts Society have several interesting talks online for their members, including one by Irving Finkel (a curator at the British Museum) who launched a project in 2007 to rescue personal diaries (https://www.thegreatdiaryproject.co.uk/). Here’s the link to the talk – he’s quite a character!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0hi2Q3TAK8

The latest lecture to the Henley Archaeological and Historical Group was given on 10th November by Prof. Michael Fulford of Reading University on the excavation of the bathhouse in the Roman town of Calleva, or Silchester. No excavations took place there during 2020, because of the pandemic, but the university hopes to resume them in