SPRING 2022
- From the Chair
- Editorial
- CSS New Year Lunch
- RNLI Mollie Mitford
- Beckford’s Tower Project
- The Old Vicarage
- Quarrymen of Corsham
- 80 Years This April
- Mayors of Bath
- Post boxes of Corsham
- Responses to Book Reviews
- Book Review
- Some Corsham street signs and new businesses, Part 1
- Catherine Eden RIP
- Planning round-ups
Corsham Civic Society has a new Chairman
After 13 years of fine service to the society as Chairman, Michael Rumsey has retired and is replaced by John Maloney, formerly Editor of the Society's Spotlight magazine. Michael remains on the Executive Committee as Membership...
Appeal dismissal decision report ~ Care UK
Great news a decision was posted on 8th that the Care UK proposed care home development appeal [on the Bath Road opposite Priory Road] had been dismissed by the Planning Inspector! As the person who had got the ball rolling against this scheme by summoning the...
Remembrance 2021
Anyone visiting the Garden of Remembrance and the memorial to those Corsham men who fell in the Second World War will find an English oak tree at the heart of the site. On 1st November, we were delighted to welcome Mrs. Sarah Rose Troughton, Wiltshire's Lord...
In Memoriam – Price Philip 1921 -2021
It was with great sadness that we heard in April of the death of our Queen's right-hand man. Prince Philip had been part of our nation's history for so many years, that it was inevitable that when remembering such a career, local people recall the relatively short...
Press on to Wroughton ~ preserving the 140 tonne Wood newspaper printing press
In 2001, Science Museum curator, [the late] Dr. John Griffiths, stated: "The Wood press is the last hot-metal press to survive the break-up of Fleet Street and it represents the end of an era that spanned 500 years. Its preservation, in perpetuity, as part of the...
The Chairman’s Passion: Model Railways
When I was 5-years-old, I received my first Hornby Dublo train set. It was Christmas Day 1949. I remember my parents sending me to bed early on Christmas Eve. It was full of magic and anticipation for the Big Day. Little did I know that downstairs my parents were busy...