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
Goodbye Corsham Community Centre

Goodbye Corsham Community Centre

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...

Film crews come to Corsham

Film crews come to Corsham

Click each picture to make them larger. It’s not quite Hollywood, but near enough. In May the BBC used part of the High Street as a location (substituting for late 18th-century Truro) for its...

Talks explore natural beauty of Corsham

Talks explore natural beauty of Corsham

In March we had a talk by Mike Stone, Curator of Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre until 2010 and the author of several books on the history of Chippenham. He took us on a fascinating river trip down the By Brook to tell the story of what for many centuries was a...

Big developments at new Corsham campus

Big developments at new Corsham campus

Significant events are taking place with the new Campus in Corsham. The gym equipment has been moved into the Campus while the old building is extensively altered. The gym can be used in its temporary location, but the swimming pool, etc., will be closed for a couple...

Mayo grave words to be preserved for the future

Mayo grave words to be preserved for the future

Members will remember the considerable work done by the Society to achieve the restoration of the Mayo Memorial at the end of the High Street between 2005 and 2007. The CCS are also commited to the...

Death of Lord Methuen, patron of Corsham Civic Society

Death of Lord Methuen, patron of Corsham Civic Society

LORD METHUEN, 1931-2014 Dr. Negley Harte, historian, Vice-Chairman of the Civic Society, writes: Corsham has heard with sadness of the death of Lord Methuen, the Patron of the Corsham Civic Society. Robert Methuen was the 7th Baron Methuen and the first of his line...

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