HISTORY GROUP
'THE HISTORY OF SOHAM'
​with Donna Martin
Thursday 1st May 2025
7.30pm Soham Methodist Church Hall, Berrycroft
Admission £3.50 Members FREE
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COFFEE MORNING
Saturday 3rd May - Come along and meet the museum team
10am Soham Library FREE
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Archaeology Cambridgeshire East (ACE) 
Please get in touch via [email protected] if you would like to take part in up coming fieldwork
Next Meeting:
Saturday 21st June
10-12 Soham Library
ALL WELCOME - FREE Admission - Refreshments included
ACE
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Join Friends of Soham Museum from £12 per year
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NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS WANTED 
Please apply HERE for volunteering opportunities in Soham
No skills or experience required; Just an interest in your heritage and your community

ABOVE: Scene of devastation from the explosion that ripped through the small fen-edge town of Soham
​on 2nd June 1944.  Miraculously only 2 people died but more than 700 buildings were damaged.
Thank you to everyone who attended the 80th Anniversary Commemoration at St Andrews Church, Soham. It was a fitting tribute that so many people came to pay their respects. We were delighted to have representatives of four families that were directly involved in the incident present. We were also extremely proud to receive Ben Gimbert's own bible, presented to him at Soham in July 1944 by the Reverend Boughy, together with a very personal inscription, in Trust for the town. Living floral tributes will stay on the memorial to the rail disaster in Red Lion Square, and also on Frank Bridges grave, for the duration of summer.  

Welcome to Soham Museum

Soham Museum is a living history museum project working towards premises.  Established in 1998, Soham Museum is renowned for its dynamic outreach programme and excellent variety of local and social history talks, events and activities that are held at venues across Soham throughout the year.  We hold a collection of over 4,000 items of local and social interest in trust for the community of Soham and run an active research programme focussing on our local history and aspects of life in the past on the East Cambridgeshire  fen edge.

View Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network
Soham Photographs HERE!

Current Projects


Our current interests are:
-  VE-Day in Soham and more 'Soham at War' stories
-  Soham inns, pubs and breweries
-  Life in Soham in the 1950s
-  The Soham Railway Disaster
-  Soham characters and people of note
-  Local legends and folklore
-  The history of Soham Mere and local waterways
-  Local trade and commerce

We are always interested to hear from people who would like to share local stories and information with us.  We are also more than happy to publish your own family stories and research as part of our ongoing project to record and preserve Soham's heritage for future generations.

Getting Involved

Whether you are new to Soham, just looking for a rewarding interest, or think you have skills you could offer us, ideas to share, or would like to research and write local history content for our newsletters and publications, our friendly committee would love to hear from you.  We love people who share our love of history and are always grateful for any help that is offered.  If you just want a friendly place to meet people our monthly Soham Museum Coffee Mornings and our bi-monthly History Group meetings offer a warm and inviting environment in which to relax and make new friends.

Soham Museum
Registered Charity No. 1151345


Soham Museum is a registered charity run by volunteers.  We curate a collection of Soham related artefacts that we hold in Trust for the people of Soham.  We provide members of the general public with a FREE archiving service in order to ensure that items from our past are preserved for future generations.  We maintain a wide agenda of FREE outreach activities in order to share our rich heritage with as many people as possible.  We are currently working towards premises but are always delighted to receive donations of artefacts of local or social historical interest.  Please contact us to discuss your interest in Soham Museum, we are always happy to hear from you.

Visiting Soham

Our volunteers have an unrivalled depth of Soham knowledge.  Whilst we are not yet able to offer visitors to Soham a 'museum' experience in the purest sense of the word, we do offer bespoke tours to visitors on request in turn for a donation to Soham Museum. We often host overseas visitors and are pleased to help you make the most of your visit to Soham by undertaking some preliminary research to help you find the places that were important to your family.  We also offer guided town and church tours.

Please e-mail us for details:  [email protected]
Soham Museum History Group offers an annual programme of bi-monthly talks on themes such as local, social, regional and military history.  We only book the best speakers and you are guaranteed an entertaining evening.  Please click the above button for details of our next event.  All welcome.

Interested in Archaeology?
Archaeology Cambridgeshire East or ACE is a subgroup of Soham Museum.  We are professionally trained volunteers mentored by Oxford Archaeology East, with a remit to explore unrecorded and under recorded archaeology along the east fen edge.  ACE offers budding archaeologists of all ages and levels of experience the opportunity to learn about and carry out archaeology in our local area.  Please see our dedicated page under museum 'subgroups'.

Interested in Local and Family History?

Soham Local and Family History Group is the research group for Soham Museum.  Unfortunately we have no regular meetings at present, but we are able to take enquiries via e-mail or please feel free to come along to our monthly Coffee Mornings at Soham Library - 1st Saturday every month 10am. 

Join 'Friend's of Soham Museum'

You can support Soham Museum by becoming a 'Friend of Soham Museum'.   Please see our separate page under 'subgroups' for more information and benefits or e-mail us at [email protected] for details.

Our Collection

View of Red Lion Square from High St.             View of Hall Street from Speed Lane              Soham Grammar School, Churchgate St

Soham Museum complies with current GDPR requirements.  For full details of our Data Protection Policy please e-mail our administration team at museum.soham.org.uk.  If you have any concerns about information published on this website please contact Soham Museum immediately.  At the time of publishing all information contained herein was correct.  Soham Museum is  Registered Charity  No. 1151345 and run solely by volunteers for the benefit of the people of Soham.  Soham Museum has no connection with Soham Heritage and Tourism or representatives of the same.  Soham Museum has a number of legitimate subgroups: Soham History Group, Friends of Soham Museum, Soham Local and Family History Group, and Archaeology Cambridgeshire East (ACE).  Soham Museum works closely with Soham Community Archive and runs Soham Museum Coffee Mornings.  Soham Museum regularly holds themed displays in Soham Library foyer (to the right of the main entrance) where you can find out more about our events and activities.