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Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre: with 11 miles of archives dating back 800 years, you can discover more about Wiltshire's people, places and history.
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North again over the & we pass 2 white horses carved into the chalk. Don't be fooled, these are more recent additions to the landscape. The horse (left) was created in 1838 & the horse (3 miles away) followed in 1864.

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2021-02-23

Happy Hope you're celebrating appropriately.
Here's a Cheese Party 1850 style, the opening of the Great Cheese Market, as depicted in The Illustrated London News.

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2021-01-20

Next on our tour it's Back Avon Bridge. This flimsy wooden crossing stood at the end of River Street near where Lovers Walk now stands. It led to an island called The Ham. It was regularly lost due to floods & erosion, the final time being in 1927

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2020-12-28

Our next is House, built in the early C.17th for the 1st Earl of During WW1 it was used as a convalescence home for wounded soldiers, one of several such homes in the county.

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2020-11-22

Day 2 of the fest. Today's theme is
These C.17th homes in are called the Flemish Weavers Cottages. A 1672 Royal proclamation invited persecuted Dutch artisans to settle in England. A few may have settled in the town, bringing new innovations

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2020-11-22

1736 Edward des Bouverie, Earl of Radnor died.
In 1717 he bought Longford Castle, He was buried in & bequeathed £500 to the colonists of Georgia for them to give up slavery which was apparently declined

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2020-11-21

Happy 170th anniversary ! The Illustrated London News reported on the festivities. The High Street, filled with spectators & bedecked with flowers, sported flags and pine-boughed archways. The next day cheese overflowed from the new larger market into the High Street!

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2020-09-12

9 May 1945 Edith Olivier wrote: "Drove myself to Heytesbury for they say we should have petrol by June 1st. I suddenly felt I could run the car. Lunched with Sieg & George." Their talk centred on Sassoon's estranged wife Hesta & artist

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2020-05-10

On the hunt for Wiltshire's witches - historic fake news! https://t.co/BCiSmdKoQB

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2019-03-14

On this day in 1918 voting rights for both men and women were greatly expanded - find out how this affected in our talk tomorrow 10.30 am at WSHC https://t.co/eCKJ99IXds

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2018-02-06