Leo Black, a producer at the BBC for over 28 years, who spent his childhood in Amersham during the war, wrote that “the town swarmed with culture”. Having met in Hampstead, the Canettis followed Marie-Louise to Amersham where they were billeted with Reverend Gordon Milburn on Stubbs Wood. Marie-Louise’s double portrait of herself and Canetti, painted after their years in Amersham, expresses some of the complexities of their affair. After the war Mary returned to her husband in Prague. Laelia and Walter GoehrMusic provided the catalyst for émigré couple, Laelia and Walter Goehr, who created their family home in Amersham.