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The Long and the short of it: South Wraxall Manor and the Longs
Posted by: Blog Administrator on May 6, 2011
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Fire!
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Mar 4, 2011
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And a Wiltshire New Year to You!
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Jan 4, 2011
Tagged in: Wiltshire , William Henry Tucker , wedding , wages , Trowbridge , treat , trade unions , Swindon , Sunday school , snow storm , Sir Edward Bayntun , schoolmasters , schoolboys , reverends , railway accident , polka , plague , New Year’s Eve , New Year , Lords , Lord Methuen , locomotive superintendent , Langley House , Langley Burrell , Kington St. Michael , Keren Wood , John Couzens , Jeffery Whitaker , Jackson’s Lane , Isambard Kingdon Brunel , inhabitants , Herbert Spackman , GWR , Graham Awdry , gauge , gardener , Francis Kilvert , flooded , experiences , Edwad Awdry , diary , Daniel Gooch , dances , Corsham Court , Corsham , Commonplace Book , clothier , Bromham , Bristol , Bratton , Bella Dixon , ball , authors , architect
So, just what Do our visitors come to see?
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Oct 1, 2010
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Victorian Prisioners Seen Through Modern Eyes
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Nov 24, 2009
Tagged in: Wiltshire local studies collection , Victorian Wiltshire , Victorian Prison Lives , treadmill , Suzanne Baker , Students.Wiltshire College , Stacey Sweeney , Sandra Herbert , Register of Prisoners , Rebecca Smith , prison life , prison diary , photographs , newspaper accounts , murder , journal article , Jennifer Hart , History , Henry Talbot , experience , evening class , documents , diary , Devizes prison , crimes , creative writing , creating , child prisoners , Bratton , books , adults improving literacy skills