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Happy #CheeseLoversDay. Hope you're celebrating appropriately.
Here's a Cheese Party 1850 style, the opening of the Great Cheese Market, #Chippenham as depicted in The Illustrated London News.
#ExploreYourArchive #Wiltshirepast
Our next #home is #Heywood House, built in the early C.17th for the 1st Earl of #Marlborough. During WW1 it was used as a convalescence home for wounded soldiers, one of several such homes in the county. #ExploreYourArchive #Wiltshirepast
#OnThisDay 1736 Edward des Bouverie, Earl of Radnor died.
In 1717 he bought Longford Castle, #Odstock. He was buried in #Britford & bequeathed £500 to the colonists of Georgia for them to give up slavery which was apparently declined
#OTD #Wiltshirepast #ExploreYourArchive