Front Cover Spotlight March 2021

SUMMER 2022

  • From the Chair
  • From the CCS’s Archive
  • Memorablia: 70 years of Royal Celebrations
  • Muddy Stilettos Awards
  • Memories of 60 years Ago
  • History of 2 Station Road
  • The Hancock Nexus
  • The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Garden party Summer in Corsham
  • Planning Matters
  • Round-up ‘Hand in Glove’
  • From launch to Relaunch
  • Another Post Box
  • Robert Tanner: From Goldsmiths to the Great Depression
  • What Lies Artily Beneath Corsham
  • Lancefield Studios
Pickwick Conservation Area Appraisal

Pickwick Conservation Area Appraisal

A most welcome development has been the formal approval by Wiltshire Council of the Appraisal as material consideration in respect of planning applications in that area at the meeting of the Northern Area Planning Committee, on Wednesday 12 October 2022. A...

Corsham Station Plans on Track as Council Submits Business Case

Corsham Station Plans on Track as Council Submits Business Case

NEWS RELEASE - 22ND NOVEMBER 2022 Plans for a new station in Corsham have taken another step forward after Wiltshire Council, in partnership with Corsham Town Council, Michelle Donelan MP and other local stakeholders, submitted a Strategic Outline Business Case (SOBC)...

Robin Tanner: From Goldsmiths to the Great Depression

Robin Tanner: From Goldsmiths to the Great Depression

30 July – 8 October A new exhibition at Chippenham Museum will run from 30 July to 8 October 2022 exploring the life and work of Robin Tanner during his formative years between the First and Second World Wars. Using key moments from Robin Tanner’s life, such as his...

Corsham Civic Society has a new Chairman

Corsham Civic Society has a new Chairman

After 13 years of fine service to the society as Chairman, Michael Rumsey has retired and is replaced by John Maloney, formerly Editor of the Society's Spotlight magazine. Michael remains on the Executive Committee as Membership...

Appeal dismissal decision report ~ Care UK

Appeal dismissal decision report ~ Care UK

Great news a decision was posted on 8th that the Care UK proposed care home development appeal [on the Bath Road opposite Priory Road] had been dismissed by the Planning Inspector! As the person who had got the ball rolling against this scheme by summoning the...

Remembrance 2021

Remembrance 2021

Anyone visiting the Garden of Remembrance and the memorial to those Corsham men who fell in the Second World War will find an English oak tree at the heart of the site. On 1st November, we were delighted to welcome Mrs. Sarah Rose Troughton, Wiltshire's Lord...

‘Old’ Pickwickians

‘Old’ Pickwickians

Our Editor, John Maloney's first article in the  July Spotlight, was of great interest to me, as he referred not only to his own property – 12 Pickwick, but the adjoining house No. 14. This was the home of my grandparents Bill and Rose Say, for about 40 years, it may...

An early photograph of Corsham Station

An early photograph of Corsham Station

It is believed that this is the second earliest photograph taken of a train at Corsham station.  It probably dates for 1893 or early 1894.  The engine, an ‘1854’ class of saddle tank, was built at Swindon Works in November 1892 and was later converted to a pannier...