A certain recently-elected world leader has been likened to the main character in the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes and, coincidentally, Seend Fawlty Players have chosen this as their 38th village pantomime.
Performances are in Seend Community Centre, Rusty Lane, Seend SN12 6NS on Thursday and Friday 16th and 17th February at 7.30pm and on Saturday 18th February at 7pm.
Don’t worry, it’s not a political pantomime. You can expect all the usual escapism, fun and silliness that Fawlty Players are known for, with an interesting take on the final denouement.
There will be a raffle each evening and interval refreshments. Tickets cost £6, £3 for children and are available from Seend Shop/PO, The Brewery Inn in Seend Cleeve and Seend Community Centre. All proceeds will be donated to Julia’s House in Devizes.
![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.")
