WITH the summer holidays at an end, what better time to start planning your next short break or day trip?
Vision Tours, the local luxury coach tour operator, is offering a variety of day trips and short breaks to enjoy with pick ups in Melksham.
Their latest brochure is now available to help you plan your next get-away featuring a wide variety of trips in the UK and abroad, covering Autumn, Winter and next Spring.
There are short breaks planned to Bruges • Blackpool for the Heritage Tram and Illuminations • Great British Value Breaks to Llandudno & Scenic Snowdonia • the Isle of Wight or Eastbourne • A Taste of Ireland with Springtime in Wicklow • or a Dolly Parton Tribute weekend with a Hilton Hotel Mini Break
If you’re looking for a Festive trip, you can choose from • a Thursford Christmas Spectacular • Yuletide in York, Castle Howard & Chatsworth • Turkey & Tinsel Great British Value Breaks to the Isle of Wight or Hayling Island • or visits to Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market & Gloucester Quays or Winchester Christmas Market & Portsmouth Festival of Christmas.
Day trips include • Bridgwater carnival with a carvery lunch • scenic Malvern hills & Webbs • Exeter shopping & Christmas market • Abergavenny • a Christmas train of lights • Clarks village • Christmas carols at the Royal Albert Hall • Hogwarts in the snow with a Warner Brothers studio tour • and a Twixmas Fabulous Carvery Lunch
“We want your time away with us to be relaxing and memorable, that’s why every one of our tours is carefully crafted by our expert team,” says owner Peter Baker. “The company was established in 2010 from humble beginnings offering just a handful of day trips and short breaks.
“Since then the company has grown steadily and expanded to offer an increasing range of trips to varied destinations.
“We offer luxury coach travel – often with Hostess Service for refreshments; experienced coach crews who pride themselves on giving you the highest levels of service and customer care; carefully chosen hotels and interesting and varied itineraries with many memorable excursions.
“And backed up with local pick up points including in Melksham.
“We have many, many returning customers and you can read a lot of their comments on our website.
For your copy of their latest brochure; call 01380 609303; email mail@vision-tours.co.uk or pick up a copy from the Melksham News in Melksham Market Place or the Tourist Information Centre in Church Street. For more details, visit www.vision-tours.co.uk.
![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.")
