HOLIDAYS & Cruises have released an array of holidays and days away for 2021, which are available to book now.
They say, “Pick up your leaflet now! You can collect your copy from the our Holidays & Cruises travel shop at 16 High Street, Melksham where we have also placed leaflet pick up boxes on the shop window for collection at any time. If you live further away, just give us a call and we’ll post one out to you. For more information about our tour experiences you can review video links online at www.travelclub.coach.
‘We have a tantalising range of holidays for your selection that pick up in Melksham – Market Place bus stop. There are traditional favourites like our seasonal Mystery Breaks & Swanage Steam Railway and new tour additions for 2021 that include; A Warners break, Historic Waterways including the Manchester Ship Canal & Anderton Boat Lift, Edinburgh Tattoo to name a few of the plentiful tours you can choose from.
“A new addition to our Days Away programme features: Weald & Downland Museum the filming site of BBC TV’s The Repair Shop. Also, popular visits to National Trust properties and gardens that include Knight-hayes Court, Coughton Court, Hidcote and others…
“If you prefer something more leisurely, there are scenic tours to relax and enjoy the commanding views from the comfort of your coach seat, or perhaps you might like a trip that includes a lunch or carvery experience you can savour.
“Would you love to see West End shows without the trek or expense of going up to London?
Join us for an evening performance in top stall seats for Les Miserable and Mama Mia or other productions showing at the Hippodrome, Bristol – we ’ll drop you and pick you up right outside.
“For your peace of mind all our coach holidays and days away adhere to government safety guidelines. We currently operate with reduced passenger numbers to observe seating with social distancing. Our policy for mutual safety includes implementation of temperature checks at pick up points, hand gelling every time on entry to the coach, sanitisation of the coach each evening through a defogging process and coach air circulation filters.
“We look forward to welcoming you on board,
Our Travel Club also offers membership savings on all travel, including personal holidays and cruises booked with Sherina in the travel shop.
“Call us on 01225 865725 (opt 3) – or email steve@holidays.cruises
![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.")
