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Step back into Corsham’s cinematic past
In 1929 a fairground operator named H. Andrews had plans drawn up for a cinema in Pickwick Road, at the junction of what is now Newlands Road, by a Trowbridge architect. Plans for the Picture House show a hall of a basic design, with open roof trusses. A central...
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Step back into Corsham's cinematic past
In 1929 a fairground operator named H. Andrews had plans drawn up for a cinema in Pickwick Road, at the junction of what is now Newlands Road, by a Trowbridge architect. Plans for the Picture House show a hall of a basic design, with open roof trusses. A central...
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March 2013 review: Cold War bunker secrets revealed
Michael Rumsey gave another well-received talk in his series of presentations on Wiltshire churches at our November meeting. The day of our annual dinner in January coincided with a very heavy fall of snow which lasted all day. Public transport and taxis were not...
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Lord Methuen congratulates Civic Society on Golden Jubilee
As Patron of the Corsham Civic Society, it gives me great pleasure to congratulate the Society on achieving its Golden Jubilee in 2013. As a former resident of Corsham, I have seen enormous changes in the Town during my lifetime, encompassing large population growth...
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Monks Chapel: Celebrating 350 years
This summer the Congregation celebrated 350 years since the Quakers built Monks Chapel. Its situation was such that it was outside a radius of five miles from the borough of Chippenham, to conform to the ‘ Five Mile Act ‘ passed by Parliament in that same year 1662....
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