Children at Daisychain Day Nursery in Whitley joined in the fun for a week of Children in Need fundraising, whilst providing a very good opportunity to bring an awareness of children’s different needs to the children in the nursery.
Sarah Radford said, “As usual we had organised a wide range of activities for all the babies, toddlers and pre-school children and parents to take part in, from making and decorating gingerbread teddies and red and yellow marbled cakes, learning teddy bear songs and rhymes and making up new versions of songs to well-known songs and rhymes.
“By the end of the week there was a Daisychain Pudsey gallery of all the pictures that were drawn, coloured, painted and collaged during the week.
“We had a nursery rhyme quiz for the parents, and the winner received a bottle of prosecco. There was a teddy bear who was looking for a new home; to win him children had to pick a name from the choice of 54 and keep their fingers crossed that they had picked the correct one, (teddy’s name was Franklin.) Staff and parents donated their old £1 coins that they still had knocking around in the car, pockets, bottoms of bags and in money boxes and throughout the week, staff and children dressed in spotty clothes and accessories.
“We made a huge Pudsey bear with spots, which was signed by parents when they donated money to any of the activities that they chose to join in with, and the total that we raised was £176.75.”
![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.")
