Category: Editorial

From the Chairman: A railway special

From the Chairman: A railway special

I am currently typing this paragraph on the longest day of 2016, Monday, June 20th, with the window open and listening to the rain falling, another dismal day I’m afraid, but hopefully, warm and sunny days will follow! The July edition of ‘Spotlight’ is just slightly...
South Street – a poem

South Street – a poem

I moved to Corsham when I was four, a number 3 was on the door. The house seemed large to a small curly haired boy, but Ann would be there to play with a toy. * Grandpa was coming to live with us too, in grey woolly waistcoat with a large mint or two. The grandfather...
The Great Thunderstorm of 2014

The Great Thunderstorm of 2014

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...
Goodbye Corsham Community Centre

Goodbye Corsham Community Centre

1940s 2014 Being demolished Demolished With the Campus due to open later in the year, Corsham Community Centre has been demolished, and all the facilities and activities there will be transferred to the new building. The Community Centre was built in the 1940s, so it...
Finding interesting churches in Wiltshire

Finding interesting churches in Wiltshire

I always promised myself that when I retired I would undertake several projects. One was to visit all the Anglican cathedrals in England and Wales and the second was to explore and photograph churches in my home county of Wiltshire. For four years I was unable to do...
Christmas message from chairman Michael Rumsey

Christmas message from chairman Michael Rumsey

Dear Friends, Twelve months ago I wrote that I, together with the rest of the membership, was looking forward to 2013, our Golden Jubilee Year, and now we are virtually at the end of it and what a year it has been. Apart from the terrible wintry weather that very much...