MELKSHAM will be holding a Great British Spring Clean this weekend as part of a nationwide initiative to clean the country’s streets.
Fourteen local organisations from the Melksham area have registered to take part in the Great British Spring Clean over the weekend of 3rd to 5th March.
Melksham organiser Miriam Zaccarelli says, “Pick your closest clean from all the ones going on locally or show up at the Canberra Youth Centre at 1pm, get kitted out with the equipment provided, head off in pairs or teams to tidy up the town and return at 3pm for tea and refreshments.
“There is always a great turn out for Melksham’s Tidy Town events and we hope this one will be even better than usual.”
For more information call Miriam on 01225 704187 or email miriam@ melkshamtown.co.uk.
The events being held in the Melksham area will be:
• Friday 3rd March – Forest Community British Spring Clean, meeting 9.30am at Forest Community Centre.
• Friday 3rd March – Forest and Sandridge Primary School, Seend Primary School, The Manor Primary School, St Mary’s Broughton Gifford Primary School and Melksham Oak Community School will all be taking part. Please note these are closed events for pupils from each respective school.
• Sat. 4th March – Semington Spring Clean, meeting 10am at Semington Village Hall.
• Sat. 4th March – The Great Broughton Gifford Spring Clean, meeting 10am at the Broughton Gifford Scout Hut.
• Sat. 4th March – BRAG (Bowerhill) Spring Clean, meeting 10.30am at Tesco car park.
• Sunday 5th March – Young Melksham Big Clean Up, meeting 10am at Canberra Youth Centre.
• Sunday 5th March – Melksham Tidy Town Day, meeting 1pm at Canberra Youth Centre.
Community engagement manager at Wiltshire Council Rhys Schell said, “The simple ambition of the campaign is to bring people together to clear up the litter that blights our towns, villages, and countryside. There has been an incredible response from the schools, community organisations and town and parish councils, who will be getting out and cleaning up our local neighbourhoods.”
For more details visit www.greatbritishspringclean.org.uk or contact rhys.schell@wiltshire.gov.uk to find your local event.
![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.")
