by admin | Jun 12, 2012 | Archive, Events
On the 27th July the Corsham Civic Society is visiting Hilmarton, an easily neglected village north of Calne, which has close connections with Corsham that may have been generally forgotten about. Hilmarton was bought in 1813 by Thomas Poynder, a rich London builder...
by admin | Feb 12, 2012 | Archive, Images
Corsham High Street 1949 Corsham High Street 1949 Corsham High Street 1949 Corsham High Street 1949 Corsham High Street 1949 In January 2012 the Society was contacted by Mrs Hilary Corke who, when looking through the photographs of her late father, came across a...
by admin | Feb 12, 2012 | Archive
The first ‘mansion house’ to be built in Corsham by a rich and successful clothier in the last great boom of the broadcloth and/or medley cloth industry in the first half of the eighteenth century was the ‘Mansion House’, as it was called at the time, and as it has...
by admin | Feb 12, 2012 | Archive
As we remember the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, we also think of his second book that he wrote, namely, ‘Pickwick Papers’ and its association with our Pickwick. Charles Dickens first visited Bath in 1835, as a young newspaper reporter...
by admin | Nov 12, 2011 | Archive, Editorial
Earlier this year a book was donated to the CADT which was discovered to contain copies of the first ever St. Bart’s Church Magazines published in our parish dated 1883. It was introduced by the Rev. George Linton, the cover was printed by Lewin Spackman and the...
by admin | Nov 12, 2011 | Archive
In 1774 Robert Neale, clothier and MP, obtained from the College of Arms a confirmation and exemplification of arms to be borne by him, his family and descendants. The 1774 confirmation states that Robert Neale’s ancestors had borne arms “argent, a lion...
