Online research can take you in many directions, often deviating down minor roads and paths away from the route you thought you were taking – the subject you are studying. And so, as I clicked through pages of the Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette of 1890 on the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) looking for news of… Read More Llanerch Colliery disaster 1890
I have been obsessed with this picture ever since I came across it while researching my history of C. & T. Harris book. It was taken in 1900 by the Rev Robert Wheeler, who was minister of Calne Free Church for fifty years, and lived at No 1 The Green, opposite the Almshouses where the… Read More The Eight Widows of Tounson Almshouses – Part 1
Alphabetical Days O is for out and about & odds and ends Calne, Bromham, Devizes and Market Lavington
The winners of this year’s Calne Heritage Centre Quiz Night were team ‘Quiz on my Face’: left to right: Odette Carter, Steve Drage, Paul Johnson and Joan Whale. They were presented with the Little Lance the Pig trophy which is retained for the year. Odette, who is director of Odette Funeral Services in Calne, said… Read More Little Lance Trophy
BRINGING HOME THE BACON the story of the theft of Wiltshire’s Bronze Pigs by Dee La Vardera illustrated by Richard Cowdy Robbed, recovered, restored The much-loved bronze pigs taken from Calne in October 2017, found their way home, thanks to the power of social media. A story for all ages written by Dee La Vardera… Read More Coming soon
What I’ve learned about self-publishing this week: It’s hard work. Not hard physical labour like harvesting the wheat in this heatwave, more like soft brain work – exercising the little grey cells. You are responsible for every aspect of the publishing process unless you have loads of relatives or friends with skills you can call upon… Read More Cover story
