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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
Pickwick Conservation Area Appraisal
A most welcome development has been the formal approval by Wiltshire Council of the Appraisal as material consideration in respect of planning applications in that area at the meeting of the Northern Area Planning Committee, on Wednesday 12 October 2022. A...
Corsham Station Plans on Track as Council Submits Business Case
NEWS RELEASE - 22ND NOVEMBER 2022 Plans for a new station in Corsham have taken another step forward after Wiltshire Council, in partnership with Corsham Town Council, Michelle Donelan MP and other local stakeholders, submitted a Strategic Outline Business Case (SOBC)...
Robin Tanner: From Goldsmiths to the Great Depression
30 July – 8 October A new exhibition at Chippenham Museum will run from 30 July to 8 October 2022 exploring the life and work of Robin Tanner during his formative years between the First and Second World Wars. Using key moments from Robin Tanner’s life, such as his...
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...
CAPTAIN REGINALD YOUNGHUSBAND
Reginald Younghusband was born in Bath in 1844, to Captain Thomas Younghusband and his wife Pascoa Baretto. His connection with Corsham is that – like Richard Bethel (Lord Westbury), he spent some of his informative years being educated in the town, but this time at...
Thomas Tropnell
The Thomas Tropnell of the 15th century owned Great Chalfield Manor, and many other pieces of land close to Corsham – including land at Gastard and at Monks. In the second half of the century he bought 150 acres of land to create Neston Park. Thomas died about 1490...
John Hanning Speke
On the edge of a field by a dry stone wall on the Neston estate is an epitaph to John Hanning Speke. He was among the greatest British explorers of the Victorian era, whose greatest achievement was the discovery of the source of the White Nile – the holy grail of...
Rev. George Newnham
Every generation has its alcohol related problems. In Victorian/ Edwardian times temperance movements emerged with the enthusiasm of religious crusades. Organisations such as the ‘Recabites’ urged Corsham people to “sign the pledge” for a life committed to abstinence....
Septimus Kinnier
S.P. Kinnier (“Sep”) was born in Pickwick in 1871. A left-handed batsman, he played for Corsham during the ‘golden’ Spackman years, scoring 4919 runs and hitting five centuries. Septimus was the first of two Corsham born and trained cricketers who eventually played...
Sir Edward Hungerford
The Hungerford family owned Farleigh Hungerford Castle, on the borders of Wiltshire and Somerset, for some 300 years. Monuments at the castle show the family’s occupation from 1369. Their position at the Royal court fluctuated with each new monarch, as was the norm....
Arthur Hobbs
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...
MRS CHARLOTTE HEDWORTH WILLIAMSON
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...
SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON
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...
Edward Hasted
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...