A NEW underpass mural, an original song for Melksham and a painted milk churn trail are just some of the ideas for local art projects to be considered by the town council.
The council’s Community Arts Project Working Group will choose three projects to move forward out of six that have been proposed.
Other ideas include murals around the town; a community music video, working with groups, schools, businesses; and a skaters bench – a project using repurposed skateboards to build new benches and other items of street furniture to go near the skatepark in King George V.
“An idea that has been popular is to copy the trails in other cities – Lions, Gromit, etc – to create a trail of painted milk churns throughout the town,” said the town council’s community development officer, Miriam Zaccarelli in a report to councillors.
For an underpass mural, she added, “It could be a collaborative art project with local artists and young people to paint a mural across the 200m length of wall leading to and under the A350 by the train station.”
Once the Community Arts Project Group has chosen their preferred projects, detailed costings will be explored for each of the three projects and then grant funding sought to cover those costs.
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A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
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A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
Read more on our website, the link is in our bio.")
