Category: Archive

Local lives: the Parkinson family

Local lives: the Parkinson family

We are extremely grateful to Margaret Stocker of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, who contacted the Society with the interesting story of the Parkinson Family, and their link with WWI Hospital at Corsham. For several years when researching my father’s family in the 1990’s...
Railways of Wiltshire

Railways of Wiltshire

Let me start off by asking just 3 questions! 1. How many major railway companies built lines through Wiltshire? 2. How many stations were opened in the county? 3. How many stations are open now? The answers are 3, 92 and 14. That is to say, 3 railway companies built...