Get Involved

Get Involved in Soham Museum

Get involved in your local heritage?
Soham Museum is a friendly community group that welcomes
new Committee Members. We meet 3rd Tuesday of each month:
7.00pm at The Carpenters Arms, Soham
to apply e-mail: [email protected]
...and help us create a museum for Soham!

Soham Museum is one of the most vibrant and lively community groups in Soham. We are always looking for people to join our committee. Do you have a couple of hours one evening per month to spare? Could you spend days researching local history? Do you simply like typing? Have you got skills you could share? Are you newly retired and looking for something to do? Would you just like to be involved in our friendly community group? Or simply get involved in running the museum project and subgroups? We have something to offer everyone and you would be made very welcome. Please do get in touch and find out what we're all about.

HOW YOU CAN HELP US:
Join our friendly committee
Become a 'Friend of Soham Museum' for only £10 pa
Join one of our lively subgroups
Volunteer to help at our events and charity stalls
Hold a car boot sale stall to help raise funds
Donate homemade and craft items for us to sell at our events
Donate items to our collection
Share your Soham stories with us
Write an article for a newsletter or journal

Members of Soham Museum are constantly working on new projects that will bring your local history to life. You can help us by getting in touch to tell us your families Soham stories. Below are just a few of the projects we would like further information on and questions which we need help answering. We always acknowledge our contributors, and if you give us permission to use a story or research you pass on in our publications, and we publish it, you will receive a FREE copy of that publication as a thank you.

Are you a descendant of the local millwrights 'Hunt Bros.' or have any information about the Hunt family?

Soham Museum are helping our friends at Wicken Windmill to write an article on the Hunt family who were millwrights at Waterside, Soham. If you are a descendant of the family or have any useful information about them, including photographs and documents that we might copy, please get in touch with us at [email protected] so we can pass your details on to our contact.

Do you have stories or pictures of Soham Pubs?

Were you in Soham in the 1950s?

Soham Museum has been working on a new book about life in Soham in the 1950s and we would love to share any memories you have of Soham as it was then, especially stories about the local social scene. We know there are a lot of unseen photographs out there as well and it would be lovely if you would choose to share these with people through our book so they could see Soham as it was 'back in the day'.

Do you have a story about your house?

Soham Museum are currently working on a buildings survey of Soham. This is a huge project that will take a number of years to bring together. It is our aim to create an archive of Soham as it is today, focusing on the older buildings and making a record of them before they are altered or disappear altogether. You may have seen us taking photographs in your street over the summer; and we would like to thank all of you who have taken the time and trouble to come and talk to us about what we are doing. If your house has a story to tell, we would love to hear from you.

More Soham at War...

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Soham Rail Disaster as well as the D-day landings. Soham Museum has already published two extremely successful books of local wartime memories 'Soham at War' and 'Soham on the Home Front'. In this special year, it would be great if we could get enough stories and pictures together to publish one more episode. If you have a family memory or story to share, we'd love to hear from you. Do you have a story about Soham during the war?