About 20 people gathered on a cold but clear day on Barn Meadow on 14 Dec to watch the Mayor of Amersham (and Amersham Society member), Dominic Pinkney, unveil the Amersham Society’s second information panel developed as a part of the River Misbourne Project.
The ceremony was presided over by Amersham Society vice-chair John Catton, who introduced the project leader, Peter Borrows. Peter explained that when we heard that Affinity Water was intending to make some efforts to restore the River Misbourne, a rare chalk stream, to a more natural state we felt this would be an opportunity to explain something of the ecology of chalk streams, as well as using our knowledge of the history of the town to show how the river had become damaged by industrialisation.
He concluded by thanking Amersham Town Council, Joint Town Clerk Steve Catanach, Amersham Museum, the Dulcie Denison will trust and two Society members Graham Cook and Brian Withington (in memory of his late wife) for all their contributions and especially the designer Helen Walsh for her beautiful pictures of the wildlife.
