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
Lacock Archives
At the Corsham Area board in February we learnt that the historic archives of the Talbot family of Lacock Abbey and elsewhere dating back to the 12th century have been on deposit at Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre since 1991. The current owner is now planning to...
A history of Corsham Community Centre
In 1943/44 nine hundred and ninety nine pre-fabricated bungalows had been built in Corsham to house migrant workers coming to employment in the munitions stores one hundred feet beneath the town of Corsham. These es- tates were established on land in the area we know...
Dated buildings in Corsham
Dr. Negley Harte, Chairman of the Corsham History Group, has been conducting a survey of buildings in Corsham that have a date on them, whether on a date-stone or on a dated rainwater-head or a commemorative inscription of...
The Co-Op returns to Corsham
Many people who are new to Corsham may not realise that there was a Co-operative stores in the town previously. It occupied the buildings that we now recognise as 51/53/55 High Street, a Veterinary surgery Walter/Macfadden, (notice the ‘Beehive ’sign in the gable to...
Derivation of the surname Weldon
I expected the explanation of the surname Weldon to be straightforward, but spelling variations complicate the issue. The obvious conclusion is that it is derived from the place of that name in Northamptonshire. This indeed seems to have been the source of the...
Who remember the Meccano Magazine?
My father bought me my first Meccano Magazine when I was 9 or 10 and I was an avid reader until it stopped production in the 1960’s. I was therefore delighted when Pat Whalley handed me two editions from June 1930 and October 1931. The covers have long disappeared,...
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