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Programme 2024
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| Thu 16th May 2024
Further display of our local Artefacts & Social Evening
(7pm – 9pm) |
| Thu 20th June 2024
Town Walk led by Paul Carter
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| Thu 18th July 2024
Proposed Coach to Tiverton with Horse Drawn Barge Trip
Limited to 50, so Members have priority. Please book your tickets from February |
| Thu 26th September 2024
An evening remembering The Avon Rubber Company in Melksham
(note 4th Thursday) |
| Thu 17th October 2024
Atworth – The Romans to the 3rd Millennium
Presented by Gervase O’Donohoe |
| Thu 21st November 2024
AGM & Social Evening
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| Thu 18th April 2024
Working for the Melksham Urban District Council
Presented by Gill Butler
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| Thu 21st March 2024
Jobs for Women
Presented by Dr Fiona Basket
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| Thu 22nd February 2024
Architectural Follies of Wiltshire
Presented by Jonathan Holt
(note 4th Thursday)
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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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