Spotlight MAGAZINE
Our online archive of Corsham Civic Society’s Spotlight magazine
SPRING 2024
- From the Chair
- Society Lunch
- Pickwick, A place in time
- Future of Hartham Park
- Woodchester Mansion
- Adam Calkin
- Teaching in the Falklands
- GWR Box Tunnel
- Sweet Pea Kitchen
- Box Store Opening
- Spotlight Retrospective
- In Memoriam
- Planning Round-up
- Did You Know
- Invitations/Memberships
SUMMER 2024
- From the Chair
- D-Day Ceremony
- Lady at Prayer
- Steve Hible Profile
- Pickwick, A Place in Time, Celebration and Review
- Jamie’s Farm
- Middlewick House
- Norman Duckworth
- Anne Lock Retires Thomas
- Brakspear Profile
- Rest of 2024 Programme
The society’s 60th anniversary year special issues
AUTUMN 2023
- From the Chair
- Membership matters
- New Spotlight editor
- Tribute to the ‘old’ editor
- Clevedon Pools
- Remembrance Sunday
- GoldneyRed Cross medals
- The Codmother
- George Flew
- Larry St Croix and ICM
- The Peacock Arts Trail
- Hermione Skrine
- Antiques 1, 2 & 3
- HapsdenHall and Villa Ventorum
- Corsham Almshouses
- Heritage Open Days 2023
- Pickwick Research legacy
- The Royal Crescent Hotel
- Beechfield House Hotel
- Last Box butcher
- CCS talk summary
- Planning matters
- In Memorium
SUMMER 2023
- From the Chair
- Chairman’s Report 2022-3
- Model Railway Open Days
- Corsham and Coronation
- Looking back to 1963
- Willow @ No.70
- My visit to Rudloe manor
- Project Corsham Tapestry
- Heritage Open Days
- Roman defences in City
- Bristol Balloon Fiesta
- Rosie McNamara’s talk
- Old shop sign in Corsham
- Beanacre Roman site
- Jon Roynon
- Almlhouses pints
- The Titfield Thunderbolt
- Big in Japan
- Rivals come to town
- Obituary: Jill Avis
- A Pickwick garden
- Planning
- CCS summer tea party
- New Chair at CTC
SPRING 2023
- From the Chair CCS
- Annual Lunch 2023
- The Mayo pike
- Lady at Prayer ~ a Quest
- The Stone Barn, Rudloe
- Sydney explodes!
- Inauguration of historic plaques scheme
- My years in Corsham
- Bath then and now
- Daniel Fry bible
- Doris Saunders memoirs
- Pickwick, A place in time ~ fit for a Queen
- Rudloe Manor revival
- Woodies Deli
- Planning Round-up
- Life with the CCS
- Corsham and Jargeau
- CCS talk review
- Fore-edge painted book
- Goad maps
- In memoriam
AUTUMN 2022
- From the Chair
- CCS Who we are and…
- Corsham Street Fair
- Roads and milestones
- Your Almshouses need ..
- 30th anniversary of the Baltic Exchange blast
- Paul Meads, Corsham photographer
- Planning round-up
- Robin Tanner: CCS visit to the exhibition
- Margaret Sawbridge
- Corsham Youth Club
- Altus Engineering
- A history of Colerne
- Stuart Burrough’s talk to the CCS
- Rising Sun explosion Coroner’s report
- Obituary: Josie Richardson
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
SPRING 2022
- From the Chair
- Editorial
- CSS New Year Lunch
- RNLI Mollie Mitford
- Beckford’s Tower Project
- The Old Vicarage
- Quarrymen of Corsham
- 80 Years This April
- Mayors of Bath
- Post boxes of Corsham
- Responses to Book Reviews
- Book Review
- Some Corsham street signs and new businesses, Part 1
- Catherine Eden RIP
- Planning round-ups
AUTUMN 2021
- From the Chair
- Editorial
- The Chairman’s Passion – Model Railways
- Preserving a newspaper printing press
- Trees
- In memoriam –
Prince Philip 1921-2021 - Remembrance
- Monks Park
- Corsham Community
Awards 2020 and 2021 - Film dramas in Box
- Book Reviews
- 21st century cosmic surgery railway cuttings
- An Admiral Fitzroy Barometer c. 1860
- Wiltshire volume of The Buildings of England
- Pickwick exhibition
- Moonraker Canoes
- Archaeological artefact?
- Planning round-ups
- Pat Whalley’s 80th Birthday
SPRING 2021
- From the Chair
- Editorial
- Snow photographs
- Pat Whalley retires
- Review of Logomotive
- Ian Logan, designer
- Steam trains
- From America ~ Maine
- Brenda Forbes
- George McDonic
- Fore-edge painted books
- Dr Sydney Alford RIP
- Pickwick knockers
- Pickwick Winter Tales
- Wiltshire Life
- Planning matters
- Books
AUTUMN 2020
- From the Chair
- From the Editor/Corsham Civic Society Annual Lunch
- Log book entries from the Regis School and Corsham Secondary Modern School
- Corsham to Tokyo via Moscow
- Two photos of local interest
- Book review
- War memorials
- Remembrance Sunday/In memoriam
- Chairman Antiques
- Jill Avis
- Thos. Bullock longcase Lockdown in Corsham
- Our world in crisis again: Corsham’s response
- Planning matters
- Notes on trade tokens from Corsham & Wiltshire
- Stephen Jervis and the Pickwick Capers
SPRING 2020
- From the Chair
- Log book entries from the Regis School and Corsham Secondary Modern School
- Corsham Bookshop
- The Hell that was Corsham
- Mollie Mitford ~ an Appreciation From our USA member ~ New Mexico
- Review of Paul Martin talk
- Catherine Eden ~ a Pickwick centennial
- A rambling we will go!
- Current planning matters
- 125 years of Corsham Town Council
- The CCS website
- Gone are the days… poem
Autumn 2019
- From the Chair
- ‘Corsham School’ and ‘Corsham School’
- Corsham Primary School ‘interaction’
- The Pickwick Capers
- The Methuen outbuilding roof repaired
- Summer daze Beckford’s Tower visit
- Bath Roman Baths and Museum visit
- No. 67 High Street visit Current planning matters
- Sanders Painting & Sculpture
- Remembrance
- Corsham – The Unsung Hero
Summer 2019
- From the Chairman
- D-Day
- Corsham 10k and 2k
- Blue Sky Festival and Taste of Corsham
- ‘Memoribilia’
- John Parker Antiques Bill Hall obituary
- No. 1 The Gables
- Lacock and nearby settlements
- Review of Corsham Revealed More
- Notices and forthcoming events etc
- Pickwick on the go!
- Visits
- CCS Review
- Who do I think I am?
Spring 2019
- From the Chairman
- Pickwick District School
- Corsham School 1860s Exercise books
- Pickwick’s Nick Mason honoured
- Did you know?
- Revolutionary steam engine
- Save lives!
- From our American Correspondent
- Corsham Walking Festival
- Current planning matters
- Corsham reports
- Julian Orbach talk
- CCS Review
Autumn 2018
- From the Vice-Chairman
- Corsham and the SW commemorate Armistice Centenary
- Heraldry and College of Arms talk
- Review of ‘Not written in Stone’ talk
- Wingwalking ~ Strawberry Flyers
- Moonlight Indian restaurant
- Paul Martin and the Table Gallery
- Mr. Pastry
- 12 Pickwick ~ Dendrochronology, etc.
- Round and about Corsham
- The Corsham Singers
- Gastard
- Burlington Grange
- Bath Road latest
Summer 2018
- From the Chairman
- Corsham High Street project launch
- 11 High Street
- Corsham Neighbourhood Plan
- Methuen Arms award
- Methuen Arms – a folly or a lock-up?
- Toby Haynes Family Butcher award
- Buses in Corsham
- Corsham Walking Festival
- Villages in the area
- Another Martingate Centre mural
- Corsham Revealed book review
- Where and what?
Spring 2018
- From the Chairman
- Tributes to Wyndham Thomas, Don Rogers, and David Pollard
- Corsham High Street project
- Work begins on Mansion House
- The character of Pickwick and the CNP
- Septimus Kinneir test cricketer
- Bath Road shenanigans continue
- Corsham Walking Festival 2018
- Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
- Hungerford Almshouse
- Corsham in Focus
- Martingate murals
- An English judge in the Far East
Autumn 2017
- From the Chairman
- Mansion House and Localism
- Mansion House and Archaeology
- Land north of the A4
- 50 years of conservation areas
- A ‘planning’ poem by John Betjeman
- Corsham High Street project
- Corsham shops and street signage project
- A disaster on Box Hill
- Corsham Civic Society artefacts
- Corsham Civic Society outings
- Corsham in pictures
- Corsham in focus
- The sources for the history of education in Wiltshire
Summer 2017
- From the Chairman
- Mansion House update
- CCS Planning Group report
- Brunel Shed
- Walking Festival
- Banking in Corsham
- Grandfather’s WW1 experiences
- ‘Travels with an Archaelogist’
- Corsham Civic Society artefacts
- Corsham High Street project
- June Duckworth obituary
- The Spackman family
- Corsham Court: a different perspective
Spring 2017
- From the Chairman
- Corsham Print
- Sally Fletcher tribute
- Exploring Wiltshire’s parish churches
- What is Corsham Town Council for?
- The Head family
- 2017 Walking Festival
- CCS planning group
- Wyndham Thomas poems
- Book preview
- Civic Society bookcase
Autumn 2016
- From the Chairman
- An early photograph at Corsham Station
- Gospel Halls in the Corsham area
- The Buildings of Corsham talk
- ‘Young’ Pickwickians Part Two
- Old Pickwickians
- Heritage Open Days September 2016
- ‘Above and beyond’ – the WW1 hospital at Corsham Town Hall
- Tablet to Tablet exhibition
- Cream Tea 2016
- Governing Wiltshire: Almost a Thousand Years of Manorial Records
- Letters
Summer 2016
- Heritage Open Days
- 2016 Walking Festival
- The Coming of GWR 175 years ago
- My life on the railways – Don Rogers
- Photographs from the past
- Michelle Donelan – my first year as an MP
- The demise of the Copenacre site
- Corsham – a Garrison Town
- ‘Young’ Pickwickians Part One
- Corsham Station report
- Cream tea invitation
- Competition answers
Spring 2016
- 116 years of public buses to Corsham closing in April 2016
- The Methuen Arms
- The Priory, Corsham
- The Methuen School
- Sporting times in Corsham in the 1950s and 1960s
- A poem about South Street
- Cors-hamm? The Landscape of Saxon Wiltshire
- Magna Carta: Origins and Outcomes
- Corsham Station campaign update
- Meet Corsham’s new butcher Toby Haynes
- The Brunel Shed
- The Corsham Walking Festival
- Name the location of the date plates
Autumn 2015
- Civic Society bookcase
- Celia James and the Carriage Drive gates
- Thomas ‘Customer’ Smythe, 1522-1591
- Neston Glove Factory
- Bath Bus Postcard
- The building of Devizes Castle
- Death and Mr Pickwick
- Electrifying news on the GWR
- About the Corsham Springfield Centre
SPRING 2015
- Fifty Years Ago…
- And in 2015…
- Corsham’s Walking Festival
- The Goldney Family and Beechfield House
- Reviews
- Election, 150 Years Ago
- 100 Years Ago – Corsham Commemorates WWI
- Springfield Community Campus Update
- The Logan Manuscript
- 2015 Programme
AUTUMN 2014
- Christmas Message from the Chairman
- Heritage Open Days (HODs) 2014
- The Mayo Grave Plaque
- Corsham Commemorates the First World War
- Reviews
- Corsham Maternity Home
- The Great Thunderstorm of 2014
- …and The ‘Great’ Railway Flood of 1935
- The Station Campaign
- Corsham Library’s New Era in the Campus
SUMMER 2014
- Heritage Open Days, September 2014
- Lord Methuen, 1931–2014
- The Mayo Grave
- High Street Paving
- Reviews
- TV Comes to Corsham
- Goodbye Community Centre …
- Visit to the Trowbridge Museum
- Corsham Commemorates the First World War
Spring 2014
-
From the Chairman
-
Heritage Open Days, September 2014
- New Street Names
- Springfield Campus
- Corsham Civic Society’s Website
- The Station Campaign
- Review
- Corsham Commemorates the First World War
- Identifying things from old postcards
- Pound Mead – Corsham’s Forgotten Industrial Quarter
- Corsham Area Heritage
AUTUMN 2013
- Corsham in Music
- Christmas message from the Chairman
- Editorial
- Finding Interesting Churches in Wiltshire
- The Brownings of Leigh Delamere
- Review
- Suffragist commemoration
- In Corsham Town
- WWI Commemorations in Corsham
- Corsham Area Development Trust – Volunteers Required
SUMMER 2013
- Editorial
- Review
- The Early Days of Universal Suffrage in Corsham
- Chalk Drawings
- Planning Matters
- Corsham in Words
- Update on Springfield Community Campus
- Corsham Station Campaign Update
- Nathaniel Fido 1838 – 1919
- Arctic Convoy veterans
- Vacancies
Spring 2013
- Message from our Patron
- New Members
- Editorial
- Review: Cold War Secrets revealed
- Cinema Comes to a Wiltshire Town
- 1963-2013 Corsham Civic Society snippets
- The First Motor Vehicle Registrations in Corsham
- Reminiscences of Joan Poynder 1897 – 1987
- Looking at old photographs and documents
- When times were hard
- Vacancies
- 2013 (Jubilee Year) Programme
AUTUMN 2012
- Editorial
- New Members
- Christmas message from the Chairman
- Corsham Station Campaign update
- Review
- The Life and Work of the Rev. Wilbert Vere Awdry (1911 – 1997)
- Corsham Quarry Tramways
- Monks Chapel – celebrating 350 years
- Corsham Pickwick National School Logbooks
- Dreadnought 2013 – Suffragette Pilgrimage Anniversary
- Fifty years of Church Organ playing!
- Dr Burrowes honoured
- 2013 (Jubilee Year) Programme
SUMMER 2012
- Editorial
- New Members
- Review
- Heritage Open Days 2012
- Hartham Chapel
- Hilmarton
- Sir Richard Blackmore 1654 – 1729 Poet, Physician and Writer
- The Celebration in Corsham of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee 1837 – 1887
- Coronation Festivities, Box
- Steam through Box & Corsham
- Sixty Years Ago
- Margery Lilian Eagles
Spring 2012
- Editorial
- From the Chairman
- Review
- Springfield Corsham Community Campus: Update
- Charles Dickens, Pickwick and the ‘Pickwick Papers’
- Corsham Railway Station Update and the Wiltshire Core Strategy
- Measuring the Heights of the Neale Family at the Mansion House, Corsham, 1722-51
- Rudloe Stoneworks Ltd
- Neighbourhood Planning
- Corsham High Street 1949
- Ian Storey
- Corsham Churches’ Foodbank
AUTUMN 2011
- Editorial
- Lord Methuen, the Society’s first Patron
- Scones – by Joan
- Christmas message from the Chairman
- A History of Hartham Park House
- Primrose League Demonstration at Hartham Park 1896
- Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) Hospital at Corsham in World War 1
- Tribute to the Life of Dr. William Lewson Burrowes
- Robert Neale, Clothier
- Corsham Station Update and Chippenham’s Deveopment Proposals
- The First St. Bartholomew’s Church Magazines 1883
SUMMER 2011
- Editorial
- From the Chairman
- Bath Spa University invitation to Corsham Civic Society
- Review
- Corsham Almshouses’ bell rung for 10th Anniversary Celebrations
- Heritage open Days: 8-11 September 2011
- John Hanning Speke 1827 -1864
- Limewashing
- Haine & Corry – Builders Merchants, Corsham & Gloucester
- Book Review: Corsham Memories from 1910
- Rudloe Manor
- Civic Day Photographic competition
Spring 2011
- Editorial
- Vacancies
- Review
- Dated Buildings in Corsham
- New Members
- Corsham Community Centre
- Lacock Archives
- 2010 Buildings Awards
- Sainsbury’s Planning Application:
- Letter to Wiltshire Council
- Corsham Area Heritage &
- Information Centre– Letter to Corsham Town Council
- Neale & Gough Brushworks, Pickwick Rd, Corsham
- Decision on a Community Campus
AUTUMN 2010
- Editorial
- Obituary – David Mosdall
- New Members
- Small Bites
- Message from the Chairman
- Civic Society English Prize
- Review
- Lady Margaret Hungerford Almshouse Planning Application Decision
- A Corsham Community Campus
- The Tulip Tree
- Frank Gerrish 1883 – 1917
- Who remembers the Meccano magazine
- Derivation of Surname Weldon
- The Co-op returns to Corsham
- ASHTAV Crossword
- Poem: The buzzard
- Vacancy for a Treasurer
SUMMER 2010
- Editorial
- Membership and Admission Charges
- Review
- The Horride murder of Henry Long
- Honorary Vice President – Geoff Knapp
- WWI Hospital, Corsham Town Hall 1914-1918
- Casualties at the Town Hall
- New Committee Members
- Corsham Gardeners’ Society
- Building awards 2010
- Lady Margaret Hungerford Almshouse Bell
- Almshouses planning application: letter to Wiltshire Council
Spring 2010
- Editorial
- Review
- Railways of Wiltshire
- A Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of the Civic Trust
- Corsham Primary Schools Art Award 2009
- Keep your home warm – and save money!
- Local lives – The Parkinson Family
- Corsham Station Campaign
- 300 year old Jug
- Corsham Cellars
- Building Awards
- Churchyard Working Party
- Lady Margaret Hungerford 17th Century Schoolroom and Almshouses
- TIC Website knows What’s On
AUTUMN 2009
- Editorial
- Chairman’s Message
- Review
- Heritage Open Days: 10th-13th September 2009
- Historic walk of Corsham and Monks Chapel
- Claremont Ladies College & Claremont Nursing Home, The Linleys, Corsham
- North Wiltshire ASPIRE Pathfinder Project
- Civic Society English Prize
- Local life – Robert Newton Gordon-Farleigh
- The Wine Lodge
- Corsham Market
- The Civic Society Initiative
- The Waste Local Plan
- Adopt a Grave
- The Fauld’s Explosion
- Wiltshire Council’s traffic scheme for Corsham
- Altus Engineering continued
- Contact with Members by E-Mail
- Retirement of Canon Roger Clifton from St. Bart’s.
- Obituary – Vida flower
SUMMER 2009
- Editorial
- Our New Chairman
- Review
- Forgery at Corsham
- HODS 2009 Programme of Events
- The Post of Editor of Spotlight
- Book Review – Corsham Facts & Folklore
- The Guyers House – Colonel K S Dunsterville
- Obituary – Les Davis
- Local Life – Shergolds
- All in the Line of Duty
- Another Local Life
- Quarter Sessions 1608
- Altus Engineering – Exhibition at Heritage Centre
- Olga Lehmann & the Corsham Underground Murals
- Snippets from Spackman’s Scrapbooks
- Corsham Station Campaign
- Local Film Making
Spring 2009
- Editorial
- Review
- School Awards – English
- Building Award 2008
- The Post of Editor of Spotlight
- Local Lives
- The Neale family
- The Mayo Project Draws to a Close
- The Telephone comes to Corsham
- The Clutterbuck Family
- Corsham History Group
- Red Telephone Box, South Place
- Civic Society Displays at the TIC and Heritage Centre
- The Friends of the TIC is born
- Obituary – Muriel Burnard
- The Burlington Nuclear Bunker
- Afternoon Talks at the History Centre
- Obituary – Joe James
- Remembering Corsham’s Garden of Remembrance
AUTUMN 2008
- The Corsham Civic Society wins an Award
- Editorial
- The Weavers Riots
- Review
- New Book: ‘A Life Revealed’, by Ernest Hird
- Donation
- Corsham Primary School Art Award 2008
- Poetry Corner
- Corsham Link
- The Duke…
- Station Campaign
- More on Mayo
- A Local Life: Richard Bethell
- CACP Works towards the Formation of the Unitary Authority
- Recent Developments at the CCS Website
- Organisational Matters
SUMMER 2008
- AGM
- Introducing your Chairman
- Review
- Donations
- The Corsham TIC moves with the Times
- The School Bell
- CCS Annual Evening Walk
- Mayo Project Gears Itself for the Last Lap
- The Mayo Family – Descendants
- A Backward Glance through the Visitors’ Book
- Rudloe Stones Project
- Obituary – Janet Clifton
- Station Campaign
- 1st Corsham Cub Scouts
- The Pictor Family
Spring 2008
- Editorial
- Corsham Station Campaign
- Obituary – Thelma Pearce
- Chairmans Report
- Review
- Obituary – Anne Greenly
- Guyers House, Pickwick
- Local Lives, George Lockyer, Manager of Royal Wilts.
- Donations to the Society
- Richard Balch (Butcher)
- The Mayo Pike
- ASPIRE Project Makes Progress
- Society Celebrates Christmas at the Methuen
- Who’s got the Ding Dong…
- Duke of Cumberland
- Church Street
- Onwards and Upwards…….At The Corsham TIC
AUTUMN 2007
- Editorial
- Review
- Luzzell’s Well
- Restoration of Mayo Memorial is Completed
- Heritage open Days, 2007
- Down Another Memory Lane
- Station Campaign, Update
- Civic Society Building/Restoration Award 2007 – Result
- Wilkins’ Corn Store
- Price of Burial
- A Peep at the Past
- Dicketts House
- Snippet’s from Herbert Spackman’s Scrapbooks
- Civic Trust Campaign – Every Action Counts, Doesn’t it?
- Visit to the New Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
- Christmas in Corsham 1920
SUMMER 2007
- Editorial
- Review
- Visit to Highgrove
- Corsham Print
- Growth of the Tourism Economy
- Local Lives, Memories of Growing Up in Corsham
- William John Light, Parish Clerk
- Heritage Open Days 6th – 9th September 2007 – Programme
- Down Memory Lane
- Planning Matters
- Development on Front & back gardens – Media request
- True or False
- Letters
- Where is Luzzle Well?
- Corsham Station Campaign Update – June 2007
- CCS Summer Walk
- People behind the Scenes
- Mayo Project Makes Major Strides Forward
- Spire Appeal, St Bart’s Church – Update
- Wiltshire & Swindon Waste Core & Minerals Core Strategy
Spring 2007
- Editorial
- Local Lives
- Photographs & Archives
- Local Lives, Leonard Love – Family Butcher
- Planning
- Local Lives, The Hancock Family in Corsham
- The Hancocks – Carriers & Coal Merchants
- Down Memory Lane…
- Celebration of Christmas, 2006
- Growing the Tourist Economy of Britain
- HODS 2007 – Time to get Started
- Operation Christmas Child, 2006
- Ridgeway Care & Repair, North Wiltshire
- Charles Mayo – LBC Application Re-submitted
- Field and Place Names from 1569
- CADT – The TIC Gets Off to a Good Start
- Fire Badges
- Traffic Problems at the Cross Keys
AUTUMN 2006
- St Bartholomew’s Church Spire Appeal
- Editorial
- Transport of Goods by Rail
- review
- Waste Matters
- The Spackman Family and their Music Making
- Peep at the Past
- HODs 2006 ‘Corsham Enjoys its Heritage’
- TIC Operation under the CADT
- Our Notice Board Returns
- The Mayo Memorial Restoration Project
- An invitation for Christmas
- Fatal Railway Accident at Corsham – 1881
- Corsham – The Gale 1881
- Food Glorious Food!
- Photographs and Archives
SUMMER 2006
- Editorial
- Review
- Annual General Meeting, 2006
- Change at eh Top – Welcome Wyndham
- Heritage Open Days (HODS) – September 7th – 10th
- Corsham’s Programme of HODS Events
- Planning Matters
- Obituary: Gale Curry
- Rudloe Stone Works
- The Future of Corsham TIC – Latest
- The Elusive Notice Board
- Peep at the Past – “..Why Kinneir Close?”
- Pocket Images of Corsham
- The Mayo Memorial Restoration Project – Update
- Photographic Archive
- Property Insurance – Fire Badges
- Our Website
- Skateboard Project
- 2006 Corsham Primary Special Art Award
- Local Strategic Partnership
- Our Annual Summer Walk and Supper
- Adopt a Grave
- Waste Matters
Spring 2006
- Editorial
- Review
- 25th anniversary of Corsham’s Twinning with Jargeau
- Peep at the Past: Down with the demon drink
- Corsham Chamber of Commerce
- Pound Arts Centre
- Operation Christmas Child – Melksham
- Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy
- Waste Wood
- Mayo Memorial
- Brunel Bicentenary – 2006
- The Future of Corsham TIC – Latest
- The Town Hall Clock
- Corsham Print
- The 2006 Corsham School Annual Awards
- Me and the Civic Trust
- Spring Cleaning our Website
- Car Parking
- Welcome to Inspector Gavin Williams
- Local Strategic Partnership
- Corsham’s Jazz Club
- Where has our Notice Board gone?
AUTUMN 2005
- Editorial
- ASHTAV – Summer walk around Bruton
- The Burrowes Papers
- Corsham, ‘Past & Present’ Calendar
- Peep at the Past; Down with the demon drink
- Gallery
- Waste in Wiltshire
- Waste in Wiltshire
- Retirement Homes at the ex-Royal Arthur site
- …and at Rudloe Manor
- Living in Corsham as a Disabled Person
- Kinneir Close
- The Town Hall Clock
- Greetings!
- North Wilts Business Forum
- Review
- Corsham Chamber of Comerce
- Brunel Bicentenary – 2006
- Supporting our High Street Shops
- Corsham Area Community Partnership, Latest News
- Mayo Memorial Restoration
- Mayo Memorial
- Future of Corsham TIC – Latest
- Jazz Returns to Corsham
- Christmas Lunch – now a New Year’s Dinner!
- Society’s Notice Board on the Move?
SUMMER 2005
- Editorial
- Shops in Corsham over the last 50 years
- Corsham Market
- Corsham Station Campaign Update – June, 2005
- Review
- A Peep at the Past
- The Local Waste Plan
- Great Lypiatt Farmhouse, (Episode 2)
- A Peep at the Past – The Pack Horse Inn
- Corsham Civic Society Calendar for 2006
- HODS 2005
- History of Heywood
- Community Planning
- Visiting Groups
- Vandalism befalls our Notice Board
- Corsham Primary School – Art Award
- Civic Society Open Meetings – a ‘Platform’ for local organisations
- Lunch on the Lawn
- Obituary: Ray Greenly
Spring 2005
- Editorial
- Mulled Wine & Nibbles
- Oldest House in Corsham
- Christmas Lunch
- Porters Mead
- Planning Matters
- The Local Plan
- Box Tunnel Memorabilia
- Corsham Regina
- Great Lypiatt Farmhouse, (Episode 1)
- Corsham Primary Careers Week
- Corsham School Awards
- HODS 2005, Team Introduction
- Management of Waste in Wiltshire
- Station Campaign
- 77 High Street
- Corsham Civic Society Calendar for 2006
- Community Planning
- Clare’s Donation leads to Improved Collaboration
- Joe James – Award
AUTUMN 2004
- Editorial: Transport in Corsham
- The Future of Corsham TIC
- Joe James – Local Historian
- Heritage Open Days 2004
- Review
- Saving Buildings at Risk: “Adopt a Grave”
- Skating on Corsham Lake
- Chippenham – Is there a Medieval Fort?
- Corsham Station Campaign
- Management of Waste in Wiltshire
- Corsham is Not Dead on Saturday Afternoons..
- A Peep in the Past: Christmas in the 1920s
- The Wanderer Returns
- Another Peep at the Past
- Obituary: Carol Smith
SUMMER 2004
- AGM, 2004
- Editorial
- Pieces of Corsham’s History
- The Society’s Executive
- Heritage Open Days 2004
- Some ‘Dubious Facts’ from the 1500’s
- Did You Know?
- Telecommunications Mast
- North Wiltshire Festival
- Corsham International Jazz Festival
- Visit to Gloucester Civic Trust
- “Round the Churches” Walk
- Computerising the Archiving of our Photographic Collection
- Les Davis and the Entente Cordial
- Open Meetings – Improvements and Members’ Response
- Corsham Station Campaign
- Brownfield Sites
- Open Meeting Programme – 2004/5
- Community Planning (CACP)
- The 2004 Corsham Primary School Special Award for Art
Spring 2004
- Corsham Civic Society Walk
- Poll Tax – Does Nothing Change?
- The 2004 Corsham School Awards
- Corsham Workhouse
- Corsham Station Campaign
- Notes for your Diary
- Society Display Cabinet at the Corsham TIC
- Martingate Centre
- Grants Secured by the Society
- Did you know?
- Our Quest for a Museum
- Obituary: Bill Langley-Jones
- Obituary: David Yeatman
AUTUMN 2003
- Visit to Hartham House
- Don’t Knock the Rot!
- The Chairman’s Vision
- Family History Memorabilia
- The Victorian School Experience
- “Old Corsham” Project
- Where do you Live?
- Obituary: Tom Burnard
SUMMER 2003
- Heritage Open Days
- Corsham Festival
- Corsham Station Campaign
- Social Events
- HODS Event in Focus
- Where do you live?
- Obituary: Bob Allen
- Obituary: Maud Davis
SPRING 2003
- Heritage Open Days
- Pathfinders Development Scheme
- Elizabeth Hayes
- Where Do You Live?
- Working With Others – Corsham School
- Station Campaign
- The Church Clock – St Bart’s