At last I have a date for the book launch and am pleased to hold it at Calne Heritage Centre where much of the material I used – photographs in particular, are held. This week, as I went about town, shopping and walking around, enjoying the sunshine and watching the ducks on the river Marden,… Read More 1770-1982 – a pretty good record
Coming soon Amberley Publishing As a trustee of Calne Heritage Centre, Dee La Vardera had access to their archives for her latest book C. & T. Harris (Calne) Ltd. – an Illustrated History. With her own key, a vacuum flask of tea, and a KitKat or two, when regulations allowed, she happily isolated herself there… Read More My lockdown book
What a pleasure to find a rare early Harris-related document to add to the jigsaw of its history, tucked away among a load of a papers in a plain folder in Calne Heritage Centre. It’s only A5 size, printed and hand written in a beautiful script, dated 1866, and it’s either vellum, which was made… Read More The £2 gift
I know from Calne in Photographs facebook messages – currently over 3.4k members – that many people have said how much they are looking forward to reading the book. Be patient. In normal times, it takes at least a year to write a book like this, and at least another year to be published after… Read More Another taste of the Harris book
What am I working on? I’ll tell you. A new book which I had planned well before lockdown. A subject very close to home, and, to some extent, ideal for lockdown. Material pretty well on my doorstep, and people to help with research accessible by email, Facetime or zoom. Autumn 2019, I decided to write… Read More Polonies, pasties and pies
