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Monkton Farleigh WI members celebrating their Golden anniversary

2:02pm Friday 19th March 2010

Monkton Farleigh Women’s Institute celebrates its 65th anniversary this March and will be holding a party in June.

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Then and Now - Bratton Fire Service

1:58pm Friday 19th March 2010

This week we continue our look at the Bratton Fire Service. Their horsedrawn pump was used to fight fires in Bratton and also in Edington, Coulston and Tinhead.

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Then and Now - Bratton Fire Brigade

12:35pm Friday 12th March 2010

This week we move into the centre of the village to feature the village fire engine.

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A look back at pupils at two of Trowbridge’s secondary school this week. The picture on the right shows pupils at the former Nelson Haden School on Frome Road, now The Clarendon College, and was taken some time in the 1960s.

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1:05pm Friday 5th March 2010

The 1st Neston and Box Scout Group has weathered a century of change and two World Wars, and is celebrating its centenary this month with a traditional Scouts activity day.

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Then and Now - Luccombe Mill and House, Bratton

1:01pm Friday 5th March 2010

This week we feature another mill along Stradbrook. The Napoleonic Wars brought an upsurge in the woollen trade because of the demand for cloth for military uniforms.

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12:26pm Friday 26th February 2010

Warminster Townswomen’s Guild voted unanimously to close earlier this month after almost 40 years of friendship and charity fundraising.

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Then and Now - Aldridge's Mill, Bratton

12:19pm Friday 26th February 2010

There have been mills driven by water power in Bratton as far back as written records exist. In 968AD a charter recording the grant of lands mention the Millbourne springs – the very name Milbourne shows that in Saxon times there was a mill there – and the name Milbourne, Mulbourne or Melbourne was applied to the hamlet which grew up alongside its banks.

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Then and Now - Stradbrook, Bratton

1:45pm Friday 19th February 2010

We remain in Stradbrook this week, looking at the same location pictured looking back towards the village.

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1:51pm Friday 19th February 2010

Our article a couple of weeks ago about Bowyers, the Bradford on Avon undertakers and builders, brought back memories for Alan Doddington, of Broughton Gifford, who is one of the staff pictured.