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Union Workhouse, Amersham (1910) Credit: George Ward/Amersham Museum TUM image id: 1516566144 Licence:	Front of the Amersham Museum Credit: Amersham Museum TUM image id: 1600698858 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Amersham Broadway (1889) At the time, the church tower was being renovated. Credit: George Ward (Amersham Museum) TUM image id: 1645460119 Licence: CC BY 2.0	George Ward, Amersham Entrepreneur By 1890, George and Bessie had a shop in the Broadway selling crockery and toys with a newly built photographic studio in the yard behind. In 1896 they moved to larger premises, opposite the Market Hall in Amersham High Street. Here George set up an engineering business and a ‘Cycle and Motor Works and Domestic Machinery Stores’. They offered a wide range of services, including watch repairs, and sold phonographs and records. Until about 1910 he manufactured the “Wizard” bicycle in his workshop. Credit: Amersham Museum TUM image id: 1645460392 Licence:	Laying a new gas main in Whielden Street, Amersham (1910) Credit: George Ward/Amersham Museum TUM image id: 1516561189 Licence:
Sheep in Market Square, Old Amersham with Mr Lillywhite, the policeman, in attendance (1890) Credit: George Ward/Amersham Museum TUM image id: 1516565565 Licence:	A413 Amersham bypass (2008) Credit: Geograph/Oxyman TUM image id: 1645546809 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Union Workhouse was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott who also designed the Albert Memorial and St Pancras Station in London. It was built in 1838 and served a number of local parishes and provided basic care of the elderly and those unable to work. The building later became Amersham General Hospital and is now Gilbert Scott Court. Credit: George Ward/Amersham Museum TUM image id: 1645460630 Licence:	Church Street, Amersham (1973) Credit: Geograph/Stanley Howe TUM image id: 1645462175 Licence: CC BY 2.0	River Misbourne, Amersham Old Town (2014) Credit: Geograph/John Lord TUM image id: 1645462369 Licence: CC BY 2.0
High Street in Amersham, Buckinghamshire (2020) Credit: Geograph/Steve Daniels TUM image id: 1645458080 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Amersham-on-the Hill, High Street (1955) NW view along High Street; Kings Arms Hotel on right. Taken on 9 October 1955. Credit: Wiki Commons/Ben Brooksbank TUM image id: 1645547069 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Beer in the evening Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1675427151 Licence:	Amersham Workhouse in Whielden Street was designed by the renowned architect George Gilbert Scott and built in 1838/9 in the Tudor style. It was built in response to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 which obliged parishes to form a “Union” to build a workhouse. This was to replace the smaller work or poor-houses which until then had been the responsibility of each individual parish. Though it started life as a workhouse, it then became part of Amersham Hospital, and is now luxury apartments. A history of Amersham: https://amzn.to/3jYQuju Credit: Old postcard TUM image id: 1673025836 Licence:	An Old Inn, Amersham Credit: Old postcard TUM image id: 1645547777 Licence: CC BY 2.0