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Repair works completed on iconic roundhouse
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Teenage indie band are chasing dreams
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Town Hall flies the flag for LGBT History Month
THE rainbow flag is being flown above the Town Hall throughout February to mark LGBT History Month. The annual event observes...
Say cheese! Melksham’s amateur photographers display work in Market Place café
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Melksham News goes walkabout Down Under!
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Local artist looking for muses
Rose Purdon with her art. AN artist from Melksham, Rose Purdon, is in search of her muses, to give them...
Breakthrough summer for local author
Melksham author Ted Tayler has had an exciting summer. The fifth book in The Phoenix series ‘The Price of Treachery’...
Local author has ninth book published
Melksham author Ted Tayler has had his ninth book published on Amazon. The third title in The Phoenix series...
Calling all young artists! Enter the Rotary Art Competition
ARE you a keen young artist who loves to paint or draw? Then why not enter your work into a local art...
New exhibition at Art House Cafe
December’s exhibition at the Art House Cafe has gone on show, with work from St Mary’s Art Group in Hilperton....
![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”.]
Read more on our website, the link is in our bio.")
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