THE award for Melksham’s Best Looking Business for Spring 2015 has been awarded to Casa Restaurant on Bath Road.
Nominations for the new Italian restaurant saw it described as classy, sophisticated, refreshingly chic, fresh, modern, with excellent staff, food and service’ and “it is elegant and understated but delivers a wonderful effect all round”.
Ilir Bakiji, the manager of Casa said, “We are so happy to receive this award of Best Looking Business, and would like to say thank you to the people of Melksham for the great support we have received in the three months that we have been here.”
Casa opened in Melksham in February this year and has proven a popular addition to the town. Terri Welch, the chair of Melksham Town Team who presented the award said, “It is a delight to have such a friendly, welcoming restaurant in town. And the food is brilliant.”
The award was created by Melksham Town Team to recognise businesses that make a special effort in their displays and general appearance which contribute to making Melksham a lovely town to visit.
Around 150 nominations were received, by email and on paper at the Town Hall, and Casa scored highest on nominations, with the Samovar Gift Shop in King Street in second place and Waitrose in third.
Nominations for the Autumn Best Looking Business Award will open in September.
Above: Terri Welch, chair of Melksham Town Team, presenting the cup and certificate to Ilir Bakiji, manager of Casa with his team.
![Melksham Times Past
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”.]
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