Spotlight MAGAZINE

Our online archive of Corsham Civic Society’s Spotlight magazine

Front Cover Spotlight March 2021

AUTUMN 2022

  • From the Chair
  • CCS Who we are and…
  • Corsham Street Fair
  • Roads and milestones
  • Your Almshouses need ..
  • 30th anniversary of the Baltic Exchange blast
  • Paul Meads, Corsham photographer
  • Planning round-up
  • Robin Tanner: CCS visit to the exhibition
  • Margaret Sawbridge
  • Corsham Youth Club
  • Altus Engineering
  • A history of Colerne
  • Stuart Burrough’s talk to the CCS
  • Rising Sun explosion Coroner’s report
  • Obituary: Josie Richardson
Front Cover Spotlight March 2021

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
Front Cover Spotlight March 2021

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
Front Cover Spotlight March 2021

AUTUMN 2021

  • From the Chair
  • Editorial
  • The Chairman’s Passion – Model Railways
  • Preserving a newspaper printing press
  • Trees
  • In memoriam –
    Prince Philip 1921-2021
  • Remembrance
  • Monks Park
  • Corsham Community
    Awards 2020 and 2021
  • Film dramas in Box
  • Book Reviews
  • 21st century cosmic surgery railway cuttings
  • An Admiral Fitzroy Barometer c. 1860
  • Wiltshire volume of The Buildings of England
  • Pickwick exhibition
  • Moonraker Canoes
  • Archaeological artefact?
  • Planning round-ups
  • Pat Whalley’s 80th Birthday
Front Cover Spotlight March 2021

SPRING 2021

  • From the Chair
  • Editorial
  • Snow photographs
  • Pat Whalley retires
  • Review of Logomotive
  • Ian Logan, designer
  • Steam trains
  • From America ~ Maine
  • Brenda Forbes
  • George McDonic
  • Fore-edge painted books
  • Dr Sydney Alford RIP
  • Pickwick knockers
  • Pickwick Winter Tales
  • Wiltshire Life
  • Planning matters
  • Books
Spotlight November 2020, 4th Oct Cover

AUTUMN 2020

  • From the Chair
  • From the Editor/Corsham Civic Society Annual Lunch
  • Log book entries from the Regis School and Corsham Secondary Modern School
  • Corsham to Tokyo via Moscow
  • Two photos of local interest
  • Book review
  • War memorials
  • Remembrance Sunday/In memoriam
  • Chairman Antiques
  • Jill Avis
  • Thos. Bullock longcase Lockdown in Corsham
  • Our world in crisis again: Corsham’s response
  • Planning matters
  • Notes on trade tokens from Corsham & Wiltshire
  • Stephen Jervis and the Pickwick Capers

SPRING 2020

  • From the Chair
  • Log book entries from the Regis School and Corsham Secondary Modern School
  • Corsham Bookshop
  • The Hell that was Corsham
  • Mollie Mitford ~ an Appreciation From our USA member ~ New Mexico
  • Review of Paul Martin talk
  • Catherine Eden ~ a Pickwick centennial
  • A rambling we will go!
  • Current planning matters
  • 125 years of Corsham Town Council
  • The CCS website 
  • Gone are the days… poem

Autumn 2019

  • From the Chair 
  • ‘Corsham School’ and ‘Corsham School’ 
  • Corsham Primary School ‘interaction’ 
  • The Pickwick Capers 
  • The Methuen outbuilding roof repaired 
  • Summer daze Beckford’s Tower visit 
  • Bath Roman Baths and Museum visit 
  • No. 67 High Street visit Current planning matters 
  • Sanders Painting & Sculpture 
  • Remembrance 
  • Corsham – The Unsung Hero 

Summer 2019

  • From the Chairman
  • D-Day
  • Corsham 10k and 2k
  • Blue Sky Festival and Taste of Corsham
  • ‘Memoribilia’
  • John Parker Antiques Bill Hall obituary
  • No. 1 The Gables
  • Lacock and nearby settlements
  • Review of Corsham Revealed More
  • Notices and forthcoming events etc
  • Pickwick on the go!
  • Visits
  • CCS Review
  • Who do I think I am?

Spring 2019

  • From the Chairman
  • Pickwick District School
  • Corsham School 1860s Exercise books
  • Pickwick’s Nick Mason honoured
  • Did you know?
  • Revolutionary steam engine
  • Save lives!
  • From our American Correspondent
  • Corsham Walking Festival
  • Current planning matters
  • Corsham reports
  • Julian Orbach talk
  • CCS Review

Autumn 2018

  • From the Vice-Chairman
  • Corsham and the SW commemorate Armistice Centenary
  • Heraldry and College of Arms talk
  • Review of ‘Not written in Stone’ talk
  • Wingwalking ~ Strawberry Flyers
  • Moonlight Indian restaurant
  • Paul Martin and the Table Gallery
  • Mr. Pastry
  • 12 Pickwick ~ Dendrochronology, etc.
  • Round and about Corsham
  • The Corsham Singers
  • Gastard
  • Burlington Grange
  • Bath Road latest

Summer 2018

  • From the Chairman
  • Corsham High Street project launch
  • 11 High Street
  • Corsham Neighbourhood Plan
  • Methuen Arms award
  • Methuen Arms – a folly or a lock-up?
  • Toby Haynes Family Butcher award
  • Buses in Corsham
  • Corsham Walking Festival
  • Villages in the area
  • Another Martingate Centre mural
  • Corsham Revealed book review
  • Where and what?

Spring 2018

  • From the Chairman
  • Tributes to Wyndham Thomas, Don Rogers, and David Pollard
  • Corsham High Street project
  • Work begins on Mansion House
  • The character of Pickwick and the CNP
  • Septimus Kinneir test cricketer
  • Bath Road shenanigans continue
  • Corsham Walking Festival 2018
  • Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
  • Hungerford Almshouse
  • Corsham in Focus
  • Martingate murals
  • An English judge in the Far East

Autumn 2017

  • From the Chairman
  • Mansion House and Localism
  • Mansion House and Archaeology
  • Land north of the A4
  • 50 years of conservation areas
  • A ‘planning’ poem by John Betjeman
  • Corsham High Street project
  • Corsham shops and street signage project
  • A disaster on Box Hill
  • Corsham Civic Society artefacts
  • Corsham Civic Society outings
  • Corsham in pictures
  • Corsham in focus
  • The sources for the history of education in Wiltshire

Summer 2017

  • From the Chairman
  • Mansion House update
  • CCS Planning Group report
  • Brunel Shed
  • Walking Festival
  • Banking in Corsham
  • Grandfather’s WW1 experiences
  • ‘Travels with an Archaelogist’
  • Corsham Civic Society artefacts
  • Corsham High Street project
  • June Duckworth obituary
  • The Spackman family
  • Corsham Court: a different perspective

Spring 2017

  • From the Chairman
  • Corsham Print
  • Sally Fletcher tribute
  • Exploring Wiltshire’s parish churches
  • What is Corsham Town Council for?
  • The Head family
  • 2017 Walking Festival
  • CCS planning group
  • Wyndham Thomas poems
  • Book preview
  • Civic Society bookcase

Autumn 2016

  • From the Chairman
  • An early photograph at Corsham Station
  • Gospel Halls in the Corsham area
  • The Buildings of Corsham talk
  • ‘Young’ Pickwickians Part Two
  • Old Pickwickians
  • Heritage Open Days September 2016
  • ‘Above and beyond’ – the WW1 hospital at Corsham Town Hall
  • Tablet to Tablet exhibition
  • Cream Tea 2016
  • Governing Wiltshire: Almost a Thousand Years of Manorial Records
  • Letters

Summer 2016

  • Heritage Open Days
  • 2016 Walking Festival
  • The Coming of GWR 175 years ago
  • My life on the railways – Don Rogers
  • Photographs from the past
  • Michelle Donelan – my first year as an MP
  • The demise of the Copenacre site
  • Corsham – a Garrison Town
  • ‘Young’ Pickwickians Part One
  • Corsham Station report
  • Cream tea invitation
  • Competition answers

Spring 2016

  • 116 years of public buses to Corsham closing in April 2016
  • The Methuen Arms
  • The Priory, Corsham
  • The Methuen School
  • Sporting times in Corsham in the 1950s and 1960s
  • A poem about South Street
  • Cors-hamm? The Landscape of Saxon Wiltshire
  • Magna Carta: Origins and Outcomes
  • Corsham Station campaign update
  • Meet Corsham’s new butcher Toby Haynes
  • The Brunel Shed
  • The Corsham Walking Festival
  • Name the location of the date plates

Autumn 2015

  • Civic Society bookcase
  • Celia James and the Carriage Drive gates
  • Thomas ‘Customer’ Smythe, 1522-1591
  • Neston Glove Factory
  • Bath Bus Postcard
  • The building of Devizes Castle
  • Death and Mr Pickwick
  • Electrifying news on the GWR
  • About the Corsham Springfield Centre

SPRING 2015

  • Fifty Years Ago…
  • And in 2015…
  • Corsham’s Walking Festival
  • The Goldney Family and Beechfield House
  • Reviews
  • Election, 150 Years Ago
  • 100 Years Ago – Corsham Commemorates WWI
  • Springfield Community Campus Update
  • The Logan Manuscript
  • 2015 Programme

AUTUMN 2014

  • Christmas Message from the Chairman
  • Heritage Open Days (HODs) 2014
  • The Mayo Grave Plaque
  • Corsham Commemorates the First World War
  • Reviews
  • Corsham Maternity Home
  • The Great Thunderstorm of 2014
  • …and The ‘Great’ Railway Flood of 1935
  • The Station Campaign
  • Corsham Library’s New Era in the Campus

SUMMER 2014

  • Heritage Open Days, September 2014
  • Lord Methuen, 1931–2014
  • The Mayo Grave
  • High Street Paving
  • Reviews
  • TV Comes to Corsham
  • Goodbye Community Centre …
  • Visit to the Trowbridge Museum
  • Corsham Commemorates the First World War

Spring 2014

  • From the Chairman

  • Heritage Open Days, September 2014

  • New Street Names
  • Springfield Campus
  • Corsham Civic Society’s Website
  • The Station Campaign
  • Review
  • Corsham Commemorates the First World War
  • Identifying things from old postcards
  • Pound Mead – Corsham’s Forgotten Industrial Quarter
  • Corsham Area Heritage

AUTUMN 2013

  • Corsham in Music
  • Christmas message from the Chairman
  • Editorial
  • Finding Interesting Churches in Wiltshire
  • The Brownings of Leigh Delamere
  • Review
  • Suffragist commemoration
  • In Corsham Town
  • WWI Commemorations in Corsham
  • Corsham Area Development Trust – Volunteers Required

SUMMER 2013

  • Editorial
  • Review
  • The Early Days of Universal Suffrage in Corsham
  • Chalk Drawings
  • Planning Matters
  • Corsham in Words
  • Update on Springfield Community Campus
  • Corsham Station Campaign Update
  • Nathaniel Fido 1838 – 1919
  • Arctic Convoy veterans
  • Vacancies

Spring 2013

  • Message from our Patron
  • New Members
  • Editorial
  • Review: Cold War Secrets revealed
  • Cinema Comes to a Wiltshire Town
  • 1963-2013 Corsham Civic Society snippets
  • The First Motor Vehicle Registrations in Corsham
  • Reminiscences of Joan Poynder 1897 – 1987
  • Looking at old photographs and documents
  • When times were hard
  • Vacancies
  • 2013 (Jubilee Year) Programme

AUTUMN 2012

  • Editorial
  • New Members
  • Christmas message from the Chairman
  • Corsham Station Campaign update
  • Review
  • The Life and Work of the Rev. Wilbert Vere Awdry (1911 – 1997)
  • Corsham Quarry Tramways
  • Monks Chapel – celebrating 350 years
  • Corsham Pickwick National School Logbooks
  • Dreadnought 2013 – Suffragette Pilgrimage Anniversary
  • Fifty years of Church Organ playing!
  • Dr Burrowes honoured
  • 2013 (Jubilee Year) Programme

SUMMER 2012

  • Editorial
  • New Members
  • Review
  • Heritage Open Days 2012
  • Hartham Chapel
  • Hilmarton
  • Sir Richard Blackmore 1654 – 1729 Poet, Physician and Writer
  • The Celebration in Corsham of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee 1837 – 1887
  • Coronation Festivities, Box
  • Steam through Box & Corsham
  • Sixty Years Ago
  • Margery Lilian Eagles

Spring 2012

  • Editorial
  • From the Chairman
  • Review
  • Springfield Corsham Community Campus: Update
  • Charles Dickens, Pickwick and the ‘Pickwick Papers’
  • Corsham Railway Station Update and the Wiltshire Core Strategy
  • Measuring the Heights of the Neale Family at the Mansion House, Corsham, 1722-51
  • Rudloe Stoneworks Ltd
  • Neighbourhood Planning
  • Corsham High Street 1949
  • Ian Storey
  • Corsham Churches’ Foodbank

AUTUMN 2011

  • Editorial
  • Lord Methuen, the Society’s first Patron
  • Scones – by Joan
  • Christmas message from the Chairman
  • A History of Hartham Park House
  • Primrose League Demonstration at Hartham Park 1896
  • Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) Hospital at Corsham in World War 1
  • Tribute to the Life of Dr. William Lewson Burrowes
  • Robert Neale, Clothier
  • Corsham Station Update and Chippenham’s Deveopment Proposals
  • The First St. Bartholomew’s Church Magazines 1883

SUMMER 2011

  • Editorial
  • From the Chairman
  • Bath Spa University invitation to Corsham Civic Society
  • Review
  • Corsham Almshouses’ bell rung for 10th Anniversary Celebrations
  • Heritage open Days: 8-11 September 2011
  • John Hanning Speke 1827 -1864
  • Limewashing
  • Haine & Corry – Builders Merchants, Corsham & Gloucester
  • Book Review: Corsham Memories from 1910
  • Rudloe Manor
  • Civic Day Photographic competition

Spring 2011

  • Editorial
  • Vacancies
  • Review
  • Dated Buildings in Corsham
  • New Members
  • Corsham Community Centre
  • Lacock Archives
  • 2010 Buildings Awards
  • Sainsbury’s Planning Application:
  • Letter to Wiltshire Council
  • Corsham Area Heritage &
  • Information Centre– Letter to Corsham Town Council
  • Neale & Gough Brushworks, Pickwick Rd, Corsham
  • Decision on a Community Campus

AUTUMN 2010

  • Editorial
  • Obituary – David Mosdall
  • New Members
  • Small Bites
  • Message from the Chairman
  • Civic Society English Prize
  • Review
  • Lady Margaret Hungerford Almshouse Planning Application Decision
  • A Corsham Community Campus
  • The Tulip Tree
  • Frank Gerrish 1883 – 1917
  • Who remembers the Meccano magazine
  • Derivation of Surname Weldon
  • The Co-op returns to Corsham
  • ASHTAV Crossword
  • Poem: The buzzard
  • Vacancy for a Treasurer

SUMMER 2010

  • Editorial
  • Membership and Admission Charges
  • Review
  • The Horride murder of Henry Long
  • Honorary Vice President – Geoff Knapp
  • WWI Hospital, Corsham Town Hall 1914-1918
  • Casualties at the Town Hall
  • New Committee Members
  • Corsham Gardeners’ Society
  • Building awards 2010
  • Lady Margaret Hungerford Almshouse Bell
  • Almshouses planning application: letter to Wiltshire Council

Spring 2010

  • Editorial
  • Review
  • Railways of Wiltshire
  • A Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of the Civic Trust
  • Corsham Primary Schools Art Award 2009
  • Keep your home warm – and save money!
  • Local lives – The Parkinson Family
  • Corsham Station Campaign
  • 300 year old Jug
  • Corsham Cellars
  • Building Awards
  • Churchyard Working Party
  • Lady Margaret Hungerford 17th Century Schoolroom and Almshouses
  • TIC Website knows What’s On

AUTUMN 2009

  • Editorial
  • Chairman’s Message
  • Review
  • Heritage Open Days: 10th-13th September 2009
  • Historic walk of Corsham and Monks Chapel
  • Claremont Ladies College & Claremont Nursing Home, The Linleys, Corsham
  • North Wiltshire ASPIRE Pathfinder Project
  • Civic Society English Prize
  • Local life – Robert Newton Gordon-Farleigh
  • The Wine Lodge
  • Corsham Market
  • The Civic Society Initiative
  • The Waste Local Plan
  • Adopt a Grave
  • The Fauld’s Explosion
  • Wiltshire Council’s traffic scheme for Corsham
  • Altus Engineering continued
  • Contact with Members by E-Mail
  • Retirement of Canon Roger Clifton from St. Bart’s.
  • Obituary – Vida flower

SUMMER 2009

  • Editorial
  • Our New Chairman
  • Review
  • Forgery at Corsham
  • HODS 2009 Programme of Events
  • The Post of Editor of Spotlight
  • Book Review – Corsham Facts & Folklore
  • The Guyers House – Colonel K S Dunsterville
  • Obituary – Les Davis
  • Local Life – Shergolds
  • All in the Line of Duty
  • Another Local Life
  • Quarter Sessions 1608
  • Altus Engineering – Exhibition at Heritage Centre
  • Olga Lehmann & the Corsham Underground Murals
  • Snippets from Spackman’s Scrapbooks
  • Corsham Station Campaign
  • Local Film Making

Spring 2009

  • Editorial
  • Review
  • School Awards – English
  • Building Award 2008
  • The Post of Editor of Spotlight
  • Local Lives
  • The Neale family
  • The Mayo Project Draws to a Close
  • The Telephone comes to Corsham
  • The Clutterbuck Family
  • Corsham History Group
  • Red Telephone Box, South Place
  • Civic Society Displays at the TIC and Heritage Centre
  • The Friends of the TIC is born
  • Obituary – Muriel Burnard
  • The Burlington Nuclear Bunker
  • Afternoon Talks at the History Centre
  • Obituary – Joe James
  • Remembering Corsham’s Garden of Remembrance

AUTUMN 2008

  • The Corsham Civic Society wins an Award
  • Editorial
  • The Weavers Riots
  • Review
  • New Book: ‘A Life Revealed’, by Ernest Hird
  • Donation
  • Corsham Primary School Art Award 2008
  • Poetry Corner
  • Corsham Link
  • The Duke…
  • Station Campaign
  • More on Mayo
  • A Local Life: Richard Bethell
  • CACP Works towards the Formation of the Unitary Authority
  • Recent Developments at the CCS Website
  • Organisational Matters

SUMMER 2008

  • AGM
  • Introducing your Chairman
  • Review
  • Donations
  • The Corsham TIC moves with the Times
  • The School Bell
  • CCS Annual Evening Walk
  • Mayo Project Gears Itself for the Last Lap
  • The Mayo Family – Descendants
  • A Backward Glance through the Visitors’ Book
  • Rudloe Stones Project
  • Obituary – Janet Clifton
  • Station Campaign
  • 1st Corsham Cub Scouts
  • The Pictor Family

Spring 2008

  • Editorial
  • Corsham Station Campaign
  • Obituary – Thelma Pearce
  • Chairmans Report
  • Review
  • Obituary – Anne Greenly
  • Guyers House, Pickwick
  • Local Lives, George Lockyer, Manager of Royal Wilts.
  • Donations to the Society
  • Richard Balch (Butcher)
  • The Mayo Pike
  • ASPIRE Project Makes Progress
  • Society Celebrates Christmas at the Methuen
  • Who’s got the Ding Dong…
  • Duke of Cumberland
  • Church Street
  • Onwards and Upwards…….At The Corsham TIC

AUTUMN 2007

  • Editorial
  • Review
  • Luzzell’s Well
  • Restoration of Mayo Memorial is Completed
  • Heritage open Days, 2007
  • Down Another Memory Lane
  • Station Campaign, Update
  • Civic Society Building/Restoration Award 2007 – Result
  • Wilkins’ Corn Store
  • Price of Burial
  • A Peep at the Past
  • Dicketts House
  • Snippet’s from Herbert Spackman’s Scrapbooks
  • Civic Trust Campaign – Every Action Counts, Doesn’t it?
  • Visit to the New Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
  • Christmas in Corsham 1920

SUMMER 2007

  • Editorial
  • Review
  • Visit to Highgrove
  • Corsham Print
  • Growth of the Tourism Economy
  • Local Lives, Memories of Growing Up in Corsham
  • William John Light, Parish Clerk
  • Heritage Open Days 6th – 9th September 2007 – Programme
  • Down Memory Lane
  • Planning Matters
  • Development on Front & back gardens – Media request
  • True or False
  • Letters
  • Where is Luzzle Well?
  • Corsham Station Campaign Update – June 2007
  • CCS Summer Walk
  • People behind the Scenes
  • Mayo Project Makes Major Strides Forward
  • Spire Appeal, St Bart’s Church – Update
  • Wiltshire & Swindon Waste Core & Minerals Core Strategy

Spring 2007

  • Editorial
  • Local Lives
  • Photographs & Archives
  • Local Lives, Leonard Love – Family Butcher
  • Planning
  • Local Lives, The Hancock Family in Corsham
  • The Hancocks – Carriers & Coal Merchants
  • Down Memory Lane…
  • Celebration of Christmas, 2006
  • Growing the Tourist Economy of Britain
  • HODS 2007 – Time to get Started
  • Operation Christmas Child, 2006
  • Ridgeway Care & Repair, North Wiltshire
  • Charles Mayo – LBC Application Re-submitted
  • Field and Place Names from 1569
  • CADT – The TIC Gets Off to a Good Start
  • Fire Badges
  • Traffic Problems at the Cross Keys

AUTUMN 2006

  • St Bartholomew’s Church Spire Appeal
  • Editorial
  • Transport of Goods by Rail
  • review
  • Waste Matters
  • The Spackman Family and their Music Making
  • Peep at the Past
  • HODs 2006 ‘Corsham Enjoys its Heritage’
  • TIC Operation under the CADT
  • Our Notice Board Returns
  • The Mayo Memorial Restoration Project
  • An invitation for Christmas
  • Fatal Railway Accident at Corsham – 1881
  • Corsham – The Gale 1881
  • Food Glorious Food!
  • Photographs and Archives

SUMMER 2006

  • Editorial
  • Review
  • Annual General Meeting, 2006
  • Change at eh Top – Welcome Wyndham
  • Heritage Open Days (HODS) – September 7th – 10th
  • Corsham’s Programme of HODS Events
  • Planning Matters
  • Obituary: Gale Curry
  • Rudloe Stone Works
  • The Future of Corsham TIC – Latest
  • The Elusive Notice Board
  • Peep at the Past – “..Why Kinneir Close?”
  • Pocket Images of Corsham
  • The Mayo Memorial Restoration Project – Update
  • Photographic Archive
  • Property Insurance – Fire Badges
  • Our Website
  • Skateboard Project
  • 2006 Corsham Primary Special Art Award
  • Local Strategic Partnership
  • Our Annual Summer Walk and Supper
  • Adopt a Grave
  • Waste Matters

Spring 2006

  • Editorial
  • Review
  • 25th anniversary of Corsham’s Twinning with Jargeau
  • Peep at the Past: Down with the demon drink
  • Corsham Chamber of Commerce
  • Pound Arts Centre
  • Operation Christmas Child – Melksham
  • Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy
  • Waste Wood
  • Mayo Memorial
  • Brunel Bicentenary – 2006
  • The Future of Corsham TIC – Latest
  • The Town Hall Clock
  • Corsham Print
  • The 2006 Corsham School Annual Awards
  • Me and the Civic Trust
  • Spring Cleaning our Website
  • Car Parking
  • Welcome to Inspector Gavin Williams
  • Local Strategic Partnership
  • Corsham’s Jazz Club
  • Where has our Notice Board gone?

AUTUMN 2005

  • Editorial
  • ASHTAV – Summer walk around Bruton
  • The Burrowes Papers
  • Corsham, ‘Past & Present’ Calendar
  • Peep at the Past; Down with the demon drink
  • Gallery
  • Waste in Wiltshire
  • Waste in Wiltshire
  • Retirement Homes at the ex-Royal Arthur site
  • …and at Rudloe Manor
  • Living in Corsham as a Disabled Person
  • Kinneir Close
  • The Town Hall Clock
  • Greetings!
  • North Wilts Business Forum
  • Review
  • Corsham Chamber of Comerce
  • Brunel Bicentenary – 2006
  • Supporting our High Street Shops
  • Corsham Area Community Partnership, Latest News
  • Mayo Memorial Restoration
  • Mayo Memorial
  • Future of Corsham TIC – Latest
  • Jazz Returns to Corsham
  • Christmas Lunch – now a New Year’s Dinner!
  • Society’s Notice Board on the Move?

SUMMER 2005

  • Editorial
  • Shops in Corsham over the last 50 years
  • Corsham Market
  • Corsham Station Campaign Update – June, 2005
  • Review
  • A Peep at the Past
  • The Local Waste Plan
  • Great Lypiatt Farmhouse, (Episode 2)
  • A Peep at the Past – The Pack Horse Inn
  • Corsham Civic Society Calendar for 2006
  • HODS 2005
  • History of Heywood
  • Community Planning
  • Visiting Groups
  • Vandalism befalls our Notice Board
  • Corsham Primary School – Art Award
  • Civic Society Open Meetings – a ‘Platform’ for local organisations
  • Lunch on the Lawn
  • Obituary: Ray Greenly

Spring 2005

  • Editorial
  • Mulled Wine & Nibbles
  • Oldest House in Corsham
  • Christmas Lunch
  • Porters Mead
  • Planning Matters
  • The Local Plan
  • Box Tunnel Memorabilia
  • Corsham Regina
  • Great Lypiatt Farmhouse, (Episode 1)
  • Corsham Primary Careers Week
  • Corsham School Awards
  • HODS 2005, Team Introduction
  • Management of Waste in Wiltshire
  • Station Campaign
  • 77 High Street
  • Corsham Civic Society Calendar for 2006
  • Community Planning
  • Clare’s Donation leads to Improved Collaboration
  • Joe James – Award

AUTUMN 2004

  • Editorial: Transport in Corsham
  • The Future of Corsham TIC
  • Joe James – Local Historian
  • Heritage Open Days 2004
  • Review
  • Saving Buildings at Risk: “Adopt a Grave”
  • Skating on Corsham Lake
  • Chippenham – Is there a Medieval Fort?
  • Corsham Station Campaign
  • Management of Waste in Wiltshire
  • Corsham is Not Dead on Saturday Afternoons..
  • A Peep in the Past: Christmas in the 1920s
  • The Wanderer Returns
  • Another Peep at the Past
  • Obituary: Carol Smith

SUMMER 2004

  • AGM, 2004
  • Editorial
  • Pieces of Corsham’s History
  • The Society’s Executive
  • Heritage Open Days 2004
  • Some ‘Dubious Facts’ from the 1500’s
  • Did You Know?
  • Telecommunications Mast
  • North Wiltshire Festival
  • Corsham International Jazz Festival
  • Visit to Gloucester Civic Trust
  • “Round the Churches” Walk
  • Computerising the Archiving of our Photographic Collection
  • Les Davis and the Entente Cordial
  • Open Meetings – Improvements and Members’ Response
  • Corsham Station Campaign
  • Brownfield Sites
  • Open Meeting Programme – 2004/5
  • Community Planning (CACP)
  • The 2004 Corsham Primary School Special Award for Art
2004, March

Spring 2004

  • Corsham Civic Society Walk
  • Poll Tax – Does Nothing Change?
  • The 2004 Corsham School Awards
  • Corsham Workhouse
  • Corsham Station Campaign
  • Notes for your Diary
  • Society Display Cabinet at the Corsham TIC
  • Martingate Centre
  • Grants Secured by the Society
  • Did you know?
  • Our Quest for a Museum
  • Obituary: Bill Langley-Jones
  • Obituary: David Yeatman

AUTUMN 2003

  • Visit to Hartham House
  • Don’t Knock the Rot!
  • The Chairman’s Vision
  • Family History Memorabilia
  • The Victorian School Experience
  • “Old Corsham” Project
  • Where do you Live?
  • Obituary: Tom Burnard
July 2003

SUMMER 2003

  • Heritage Open Days
  • Corsham Festival
  • Corsham Station Campaign
  • Social Events
  • HODS Event in Focus
  • Where do you live?
  • Obituary: Bob Allen
  • Obituary: Maud Davis
July 2003

SPRING 2003

  • Heritage Open Days
  • Pathfinders Development Scheme
  • Elizabeth Hayes
  • Where Do You Live?
  • Working With Others – Corsham School
  • Station Campaign
  • The Church Clock – St Bart’s