by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | People & Places
AJ Hobbs was born at North Bradley and for 60 years ran a saddlers, and later a cycle repair business, from his premises in the High Street (now the dental surgery opposite Alexander House). In those days it was a dark little shop, a complete clutter of old cycle...
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | People & Places
Charlotte was born in Suffolk in 1861, daughter of Alexander Robert Campbell-Johnstone, a Foreign Office Diplomat. She was married in 1886 to Captain Cecil Hedworth Williamson of the 4th Dragoon Guards. Cecil retired in 1891 after which the family, Charlotte, Cecil...
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | People & Places
Sir Christopher Hatton was a favourite courtier of Elizabeth I, and who she called ‘Lids’ in their private and confidential letters. Sir Christopher, when expressing devotion and affection for his beloved queen, always signed his letters with a hat drawn over the word...
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | People & Places
Edward Hasted lies in a pauper’s grave in the churchyard of St Bartholomew’s, an ignominious end for the historian of the County of Kent. Fortunately, on the North Wall of the church is a plaque to commemorate his worth to the historical record. Born in 1732 of good...
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | People & Places
Robert Gordon-Farleigh moved from Bath to Corsham in 1935 when he purchased the ‘Wine Lodge’ in the High Street. (Now occupied by estate agents Allen & Harris). Previously Mr & Mrs Baines had run it as a wine merchants. Robert and his wife Elsie (both pictured...
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | People & Places
Frank Gerrish was born in 1883 at Priory Lane Corsham, son of William and Elizabeth. William was a ‘slater’ (tiler). Frank, aged 8, appears on the 1891 census as living at 53 Priory Road (pictured, c.1904) but in 1901 he is shown as living at Ashford Cottages, Priory...
