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Programme 2022
60th Anniversary Year
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| Thu 15th September 2022
Looking back at Melksham in 1962
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| Thu 20th October 2022
Changing Times
The impact of total war on Wiltshire 1939 – 1955
Presented by Local Studies Librarian Julie Davis
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| Thu 17th November 2022
AGM & Social Evening
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| Thu 21st July 2022
Coach to Bristol
with option of visit to Brunel Centre & SS Gt Britain or a four hour boat trip to the Suspension Bridge (picnic lunch needed)
Departure 8 30 am King Street Car Park
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| Thu 16th June 2022
Visit to Calne Heritage Centre
with optional guided walk 2 pm
Arranged by Sue Boddington
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| Thu 19th May 2022
Visit to the refurbished Trowbridge Museum 2 pm
With introductory talk by David Birks
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A Walk Through Melksham - Thu 19th January 2017
The Peter Brown Memorial Slide Presentation, presented by Tony Fivash
Using pictures recently obtained, so not seen before
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MELKSHAM AND DISTRICT HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Presents
A WALK THROUGH MELKSHAM IN YEARS GONE BY
(using recently obtained pictures including the first carnival)
Presented by Tony Fivash
Thursday 17th January 2017 - 7:30pm
Melksham Assembly Hall
(Visitors always welcome £3)
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Report -
January's presentation was A Walk Through Melksham
The Peter Brown Memorial Slide Presentation, presented by Tony Fivash.
We have always started off the year with a presentation of slides of old Melksham and this year was no exception. The theme was “never before seen.” This came about because we had been able to purchase a quantity of glass plates some months earlier. We had also been given a photograph album belonging to the family of Mr Matthews, one time Station Master of Melksham Station who had lived in Church House in Church Street, a property demolished to make way for the new Post Office. Added to these were various pictures that had been loaned in order that we could make copies.
These made enough to fill an evening and Tony Fivash did a wonderful job of drawing them together to make an interesting and informative evening.
The quality of some of the glass plates was exceptional, also, while private snaps have usually faded there were four of the very first carnival Melksham held in 1910, out of focus but still a worthwhile additions to our collection.
Once again the evening attracted a good attendance with over forty visitors adding to the membership. We will hope that the February talk about the Wiltshire Regiment during the first World War will attract similar numbers.
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