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
From the Chairman, March 2017
If it’s not too late, welcome to 2017 and the Society’s full programme, as shown on the back page of this edition. For the first time, in a number of years, we had a Society talk at the Pound Arts Centre in January, moving the annual lunch to February 24th,...
A visit to Corsham Print
It’s Thursday afternoon, February 9th and I have just returned from a most interesting and informative visit to our ‘Spotlight’ magazine printers, Corsham Print.
Tablet to Tablet: Corsham’s journey from the Jurassic to the Digital Age
At the Corsham Institute based at Hartham Park, a fascinating local history exhibition telling the story of Corsham’s history over the last 170 million years, was open for two weeks during October and November and visited by over 250 people. Tablet to Tablet,...
‘Old’ Pickwickians
Our Editor, John Maloney's first article in the July Spotlight, was of great interest to me, as he referred not only to his own property – 12 Pickwick, but the adjoining house No. 14. This was the home of my grandparents Bill and Rose Say, for about 40 years, it may...
‘Above and beyond’: Corsham commemorates WW1 hospital at Town Hall
The title says it all ~ the hospital was instigated by Lord Methuen, the Parish Council and the Red Cross. Professional nurses came from far and wide to run the hospital but the local people also worked extremely hard to support the venture. Many ladies volunteered as...
The Buildings of Corsham, a talk by Julian Orbach
Julian is preparing the third edition of the Wiltshire volume of The Buildings of England. The Buildings of England series was created by Sir Nicholas Pevsner and is regarded as an unrivalled series of comprehensive architectural guides covering every English county...
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