Exploring Wiltshire’s Parish Churches
I’ve always enjoyed visiting parish churches while travelling around the UK and having spent 35 years working in Church of England primary schools, there was always a parish church attached which was visited frequently by the pupils and staff.
From the Chairman, March 2017
If it’s not too late, welcome to 2017 and the Society’s full programme, as shown on the back page of this edition. For the first time, in a number of years, we had a Society talk at the Pound Arts Centre in January, moving the annual lunch to February 24th,...
A visit to Corsham Print
It’s Thursday afternoon, February 9th and I have just returned from a most interesting and informative visit to our ‘Spotlight’ magazine printers, Corsham Print.
Governing Wiltshire: Almost a Thousand Years of Manorial Records, 1086-1922
Dr Bainbridge introduced her talk by setting the scene: the Manorial Documents Register (MDR) is maintained by the National Archives and provides brief descriptions of the documents and details of their locations. She pointed out that Manor Courts are presumed to have...
Tablet to Tablet: Corsham’s journey from the Jurassic to the Digital Age
At the Corsham Institute based at Hartham Park, a fascinating local history exhibition telling the story of Corsham’s history over the last 170 million years, was open for two weeks during October and November and visited by over 250 people. Tablet to Tablet,...
‘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...