The Marlborough Literature Festival 28 September-1 Ocotber 2017 . BBC Security correspondent Frank Gardner OBE will be talking about his latest fictional thriller, Ultimatum (published in September 2017), the second book in a trilogy. Also appearing are Man Booker Prizer shortlister Graeme Macrae Burnet, local crime writer Jon Stock as well as Will Self who… Read More Marlborough Literature Festival
5 – 10 October 2017 Now in its 42nd Year of bringing new talent and old favourites to Calne. Calne Music and Arts Festival brochure Opening Friday Night! Tickets now on sale at the box office and online at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/388202 The Longest Johns deliver a foot-stomping set of sea songs and folk in their own… Read More Calne Music and Arts Festival
At a reception held at Calne Heritage Centre on 24 August, the Mayor of Calne, Councillor Tony Trotman unveiled 12 new permanent exhibition boards. He thanked Calne Area Board for a grant towards the cost and also the late Norman Haines for his legacy to the Hertiage Centre. In front of the new ‘Harristocracy’ board,… Read More On Display
New display boards have been intstalled in Calne Heritage Centre, replacing ones which were first put up when the Centre opened in 2001 in the former Carnegie Library. The subjects of the boards are: the Wilthire Cure, Harristroracy (the story of the Harris family) the Woollen Industry, Calne’s First Word War Auxiliary Hospitals, Caln Township… Read More C&T Harris Ltd and the Wiltshire Cure
Bringing Calne’s past to life with a week of open days, talks and guided walks. From bee-keeping to bell-ringing, Quakers to coaching inns, and sausages to ancestry searching, there is something of interest for everyone. Calne Heritage Centre and Calne Town Council have pulled out all the stops to make Heritage Week bigger and better… Read More Calne Heritage Week
Bath Preservation Trust and No.1 Royal Crescent present: A Day in the Life of the Royal Crescent 29 July 2017 11am – 3pm The Royal Crescent was the greatest open-air theatre in Georgian England. In the 18th century John Wood the Younger’s sweeping terrace of thirty houses became the stage upon which the fashionable visitors… Read More Put on your bonnet, grab your reticule and get down to Bath
