WSHC blog
One of Our Conservators Almost 'Meets the Ancestors'...
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Mar 10, 2010
Tagged in: wooden coffin , Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre , Walcot Street , tests , teeth , Syria , St Swithuns' Yard , skeleton , series , Roman Baths Museum , reinterpret , redisplay , reconstruction , Project , preserved , Planning , Objects Conservation Laboratory , Museum of London , Meet the Ancestors , man’s face , male , local , lead coffin lining , late 4th century , Julian Richards , filmed , female , exhibitionmuseum , excavation , eastern Mediterranean , discovered , development plan , conservation work , conservation equipment , conservation , collection , coffins , clay , buried , bones , BBC , ancestors , analysis , analysis , 5 year , 45 years old , 25 years old , 1999
Unravelling a Village's Origins...
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Feb 26, 2010
Tagged in: Wiltshire Life , Wiltshire , Whorwellsdown. , Westwood , West Ashton , walking , Village Life , village green , village , towns , tickets , Tel. 01249 705500 , Sunken path , study , street , Steeple Ashton , Steeple Ashton , Shrewton , Sherston , Shaw , settlements , Saxon , Rowley , Rollestone , remains , religious house , records , polyfocal , nucleated , names , Michael Marshman , Medieval , market cross , maps , Maddington , Looking at Villages , lock up , linear , lessons , lecture , learn , landscape detective , landowner , Lacock , interpret what you see , Inglesham , hundred court , house platforms , house , Horningsham , History Centre , Hindon , geography , field , farm , exploration , evolved , estate , Downton , disappeared , deserted village , deductions , cruck , clues , Church of St. Andrew , church , buildings , Broughton Gifford , Bradenstoke , books , blind house , available , articles , Archives , archaeological , and photographs , Alton , agglomerated , aerial photographs , 15th century
The 200 Year Old Time Capsule
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Feb 24, 2010
Tagged in: written , Woodborough , wood pulp , Windows , treatment , Trafalgar , Tisbury , TIME CAPSULE , Tetbury , tax returns , Sussex , survived , suffered , Steven Hobbs , status , social structure , servants , schedule , rags , poor , parish , papers , occupation , Nelson , name , Malmesbury , lost , killed , interesting , immuration , illustrates , houses , Hazland family , Gloucestershire , furniture restorer , durable , documents , cottage , Charlton , carriages , assessors , Assessed Taxes , Archives , antique chest , adhesive tape , 93 people , 200 YEAR OLD , 1949 , 1804 , 1801
How to banish those February blues...
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Feb 16, 2010
Tagged in: wooden building blocks , Women’s Institute and Girls Training Corps , Wiltshire , wedding dress , web page , weather , weather , Warminster Dewey Museum , Warminster , Victorian kitchen , Victor Manley , Valentine’s Day , utility coat and skirt suit , uplifted , Trowbridge Museum http://www.trowbridgemuseum.co.u , taffeta , Stourton , stone memorial , steam , St Denys Church , spring , spirits , south-west Wiltshire , Sir Winston Churchill , scrapbook , school-master’s house , Salute of the Red Army’ , Royal Albert Hall , recipe , poultry , photographs , Pewsey Heritage Centre , pathological testing kit , pancakes , New Year , Museums Advisory Service , Museums Advisory Service , museums , month , Ministry of Information , Mere Temperance Society , Mere Museum , Market Lavington Museum , Luncheon and Supper Dishes , Longleat Restaurant , local history collection , local events , killed , James Lye , Jacqueline Ramsay , inclement , Illustrated London News , http://www.pewsey-heritage-centre.org.uk/ , http://www.meremuseum.org.uk/ , http://www.marketlavingtonmuseum.org.uk/ , http://www.culture24.org.uk/sw000041 , http://www.chippenham.gov.uk/tourist-information/l , Horningsham , historical , historic museum , Helen Burke , grey , gramophone record , gloom , geology , Gardeners Chronicle , fuchsias , Frome Young Farmers , flint , fife and drum , February 1969 , February 1945. On a lighter note , February 1874 , February , entice , Edwin Townsend , dull , drama festivals , donated , Documentation Assistant , display , disinfectant , discover , diet , dance tickets , Dakota , crash , collections , Clarice Culverhouse , Chippenham Town Hall , Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre , chess match , Charles Street , Castle Combe Museum , bungalow , blue wool , blue hat , blindfold , bell-ringing , Beech Knoll , Barbara Norris , band , arrow-head , ancient , airmen , agricultural machinery , 1999
An Arts & Crafts Artist tucked away in Shalbourne
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Feb 5, 2010
Tagged in: Wiltshire , volunteers , village , USA , trip , timber , studio at Ropewind Farm , Stained Glass Work , stained glass , staddles , St Michael’ , snow , Shalbourne , Ropewind Farm , Rivar Road , Prosperous Farm , Pretoria , Parson’s , Parsons , parish , new development , mid-18th century 3-bay barn , London , listed buildings , leafy , lanes , Karl Parson , Jethro Tull , illustrate , granary , east , Dorothy Treasure , detached houses , designs , converted , churches , Christopher Whall , Cape Town Cathedral , brick , barns , barn eggs , Arts & Crafts Movement , Arts & Crafts , Artist , agriculturalist , adding a large , 1933 , 1930 , 1909-10 , 1908
Snow, Glorious Snow!?
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Jan 29, 2010
Tagged in: Yatesbury , winters , Winterbourne Monkton , Wiltshire. Herbert Spackham , weather , wagonnette , valley , trunks , tree roots , train , tornado , three feet deep , thaw , snowy winter , snowing , snowfalls , snowfall , snowdrifts , Slade’s Mill , skating , Shrewton , severe snowstorm , school , Salisbury Plain , roads , River Till , River Thames , riding , reveal , relief fund , Quemerford Villa , pond , poems , north Wiltshire , Mr Tanner , melt waters , Market Lavington , March 1891 , mail , Maiden Bradley , Lydiard Millicent , lost , log book , lives , letters , Landford , Lacock , kitchen garden , Kington Langley , July , January 25th , January 20th , January 1881 , January 11th , impassable , icicles , hunt , houses , homeless , History Centre , hedge , hailstones , Great Storm , Great Somerford , frozen , frost fairs , Ferne House , February , farm , Duke of Beaufort , drifted , downhill , Donhead St. Mary , Donhead St. Mary , Disruption , diaries , December 30th , dance , daily papers , cut glass , cow , cottages , Corsham. , Christmas , Chippenham , Cherhill Mill , Charlote Grove , cattle , cart horse , Calne , Burbage , Bristol Post , Bremhill , Bowood Park , Berwick Bassett , Belcher , 1908 , 1888 , 1881 , 1814 , 1813/14
Tiddley Pom..... More Amazing Wiltshire Animal Tales
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Jan 22, 2010
Tagged in: Zoological Society , Winnipeg , Winnie the Pooh , Wiltshire , troops , top ten , stone , statue , St Mary’s Church , south porch , Salisbury Plain , Reptile House , published , notable animals , moggy , mice , mascots , Marlborough , London Zoo , literary , Lieutenant Harry Coleburn , kittens from a fire , History , heroic , Great War , France , fifteenth century , Divisional Ammunition Park , corbel , Christopher Robin , character , cat , Canadian , bronze , British , Bill Epp , bear , American black bears , A A Milne , 8th and 10th Batteries , 7th June 1916 , 2nd Infantry Brigade , 2nd Brigade , 25 , 1915-16 , 000
'Attaboy', Mere Museum!
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Jan 14, 2010
Tagged in: Wiltshire museums , trilby hat , repaired , production , original paint. , Objects , Mere Museum , local industry , glass sign , exhibition , display , design , Conservators , Conservation labs , Attaboy Hats’ , adhesive , 1930s
Doctor Who found in Wiltshire and Swindon Archives!
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Jan 5, 2010
Tagged in: Wroughton , Wiltshire Family History Society , Wiltshire and Swindon Archives , Wiltshire , William of Whitley , will , Victoria and Albert Museum , TV series , topographical , Time Lord , Thomas Gore , The Doctor , Syntagma Genealogicum , Swindon Borough Council , surgeon , seal matrix , re-incarnated , Quarter Sessions , punning seal , Principal Archivist , parish , North West Wiltshire , Norfolk , medieval sculpture , medieval deeds , Mayor , marriage licence bond , Malmesbury , Latin , John Aubrey , importance , Gore family , Friends of the National Libraries , estates , Dr Who , Dr Qui , documents , collection , Claire Skinner , bidding , auction , Archives , antiquarian , Alderton deeds , Alderman
A Glimpse Into Victorian School Life
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Dec 31, 2009
Tagged in: Wiltshire Community History , Wilton , website , Victorianschool , school life , plans , parish , Lydiard Millicent , log books , local studies , early photographs










