by admin | Apr 15, 2015 | Archive, News
Fifty Years Ago … On 4 January 1965, Corsham Station closed – we have been without it for half a century. The station had been in existence for 124 years: it opened in June 1841, less than a mile from the eastern entrance to Box Tunnel, when the...
by admin | Dec 13, 2014 | News
This summer, Corsham Library closed and moved into the new Springfield Campus. The old Library was opened in 1969, replacing a wooden hut just off Pickwick Road. This was a great improvement – the old wooden building, crammed with books and with limited seating, was...
by admin | Dec 13, 2014 | Archive, Editorial, News
Few in Corsham will forget the mighty thunderstorm that hit the area during the night of 18/19 September this year. It was as if one of those great spaceships from science fiction was hovering above us for a couple of hours firing down great thunderbolts of lightning...
by admin | Dec 13, 2014 | Events, News, Uncategorized
If you were in town on Wednesday 23 September, you may have seen approximately sixty people having their photograph taken outside Alexander House in the High Street. This building was the Maternity Home from about 1913 to 1950. There were only two homes in Wiltshire...
by admin | Dec 13, 2014 | News, Review
In July, marking the centenary of the tragic events that led to the outbreak of the First World War, Richard Broadhead presented a wide-ranging talk about the course of the war and its effects on civilians, particularly those in Wiltshire and our area. He took us...
by admin | Dec 13, 2014 | Events, News
The Concert to commemorate the First World War was held on 18 October at Corsham School and was a spectacular success. Sponsored by Corsham Area heritage and the Town Council, it was an evocative portrait in words and song of those four years of terrible war. The...
