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PROPOSED CARE HOME FOR PICKWICK
In response to the proposed care home on Bath Road, the Pickwick Association Committee have prepared some guidance notes for residents… Some residents may have been approached by Dominic Lawson Bespoke Planning. According to their website, the company prides itself...
Corsham Civic Society Important News 13th June 2020
Dear Members, The latest edition of ‘Spotlight’ has now been distributed. There are NO magazines to be collected from Barnett Brothers, I hope you enjoy reading this edition as it will be the last to be published until the November issue, which we hope, will be a...
Catherine Eden ~ a Pickwick centennial
Catherine was born in Flax Bourton, North Somerset, on 29th April 1920. She is the youngest of three sisters. She went to school in Clifton, Bristol. In 1938 she went to Somerville College, Oxford, but when war was declared in 1939 she went to work with the Land Army...
The Hell that was Corsham
Now that’s a title to get your attention. Let me explain: a newspaper article and a manuscript from St. Patrick's Catholic Church archive [which was which curated last year by Cath Maloney] shed an interesting –if rather wretched -light on the initial experiences of...
Log Book entries from the Regis School and Corsham Secondary Modern School ~ Part 1
School logbooks were introduced following the implementation of the 1870 Forster Education Act. Every state school Head Teacher was required to keep a long book in which they entered significant events that happened in the daily life of the school. The Chairman of the...
Sir Michael Tippett
Sir Michael Tippett, generally acknowledged to be one of our greatest contemporary composers, lived in the house known as Parkside, High Street, between 1960 and 1970. Parkside is a 17th century house, with an 18th century extension and was once the home of...