THE Market Place was flooded with crocheters and knitters earlier this month as Melksham celebrated World Wide Knit (and crochet!) in Public Day!
The Big Yarn & Yap event, held on Saturday 11th June, was organised by local business owner Nicola Coleman (aka The Secret Crocheter) and supported by Melksham Town Council.
The event saw lots of crafty folk gather in the Market Place to do what they do best – crochet and knit, as well as raise some funds for Melksham-based charity 4Youth South West.
Nicola said, “It was amazing to see so many people come down to the Market Place to crochet and knit. We all enjoyed sitting in the sunshine, drinking tea, eating cake and crocheting!”
The Big Yarn & Yap event raised £154.87 for 4Youth, and along with these donations, people also donated crocheted and knitted squares which will be sewn together to make some blankets for the young people at 4Youth.
Big Yarn & Yap attendee Pippa said, “It was a really lovely event; I could have sat there crocheting all day!”
For more information on next year’s Big Yarn & Yap, and other events organised by The Secret Crocheter, please get in touch via email: thesecretcrocheter@yahoo.com
Picture: Melksham’s ‘crafty’ community celebrate World Wide Knit (and crochet!) in Public Day!
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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”.]
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