Book Review: Corsham Memories from 1910
Our evening with Lord Methuen in April was chosen as the launch date for the Civic Society‟s latest book Corsham Memories from 1910. Civic Society stalwart Pat Whalley collated the stories with great dedication over a twelve month period. This is a collection of...
HAINE & CORRY – Builders Merchants, Corsham & Gloucester
Last year, one of our members was offered a cast iron toilet cistern, yes, a toilet cistern, of the old fashioned variety, with the tank at the top and a long pull chain. What intrigued us was the engraved name on it „Haine & Corry‟. I remembered this firm being...
HAINE & CORRY – Builders Merchants, Corsham & Gloucester
Last year, one of our members was offered a cast iron toilet cistern, yes, a toilet cistern, of the old fashioned variety, with the tank at the top and a long pull chain. What intrigued us was the engraved name on it „Haine & Corry‟. I remembered this firm being...
A guide to limewashing
Limewash is slaked lime or calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2. It is made by heating limestone, CaCO3, in a lime kiln to produce quicklime, CaO. This is then slaked by adding some water to produce the slaked lime. We bought the calcium hydroxide as lime putty from Potmollen...
John Hanning Speke 1827 -1864
On the edge of a field by a dry stone wall on the Neston estate is an epitaph to John Hanning Speke. He was among the greatest British explorers of the Victorian era, whose greatest achievement was the discovery of the source of the White Nile - the holy grail of...
Corsham Almshouses’ bell rung for 10th anniversary celebrations
Shortly before 9.00pm on 16th June, 2011, Richard Tonge, Clerk to the Trustees and himself a Trustee, rang the bell from the turreted Almshouses‟ belfry in celebration of 10 Years of excellent service by the Volunteer Guides after the restoration of the buildings...