Ashton Keynes
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holidays
my grandparents used to live in church walk in purton , my father and his brothers and sisters grew up there and every summer we used to go to stay there for our holidays.
they had feather beds and gas lighting and we used to go to bed with a candle.
the milkman used to come and fill up the pewter milk jug each morning.
we all got up early in the morning and went looking for mushrooms over the fields then go home and cook up a good breakfast. There was a well in the garden and we used to get water to wash our hair and it came out really shiny and healthy.Our grandfather used to take us on ...read more here
A memory of Purton contributed by Susan Scott
W Redman & Sons
The van on the left of the photograph was owned by my great-grandfather Wilfred Redman who had the butcher's shop at 41 The Triangle, Westport from the early 1900's until 1945. He died in that year and his son took over the family business. Wilfred Redman came to Malmesbury in the early 1900s from Nailsworth, Glos where his mother had a stationery shop. The van was registered to Wilfred on 30 June 1936.
A memory of Malmesbury contributed by Linda Hares
Family Tree
I am researching my fam tree. I have found out some of my ancestors came from Swindon. Due to a long story my Grandmothers biological Grandfather worked on the G.W.R AS A Labourer his name was Edwin New. He married Mary Jane Stroud in 1873 then went on to have my Grandmother Real mother Alice Elizabeth New. Alice was born on the 10th March 1884 at Lower stratton.
I wondered if any one out there knows of these name above. My grandmother was born in a mother and baby hospital in Hackney for unmarried mother on the 24th July 1906. I found the details out with the help of the Salvation Army her real mothers name was given ...read more here
A memory of Swindon contributed by Karen Surtees
Mother.
My mother worked in the cafeteria at lunch time, collecting the money from the students. She seemed to know everybody in the college and when she passed away at the young age of 48, it seemed that the whole of Swindon mourned with us. Swindon is a place that I hold dear to my heart. Every picture that I have looked at today brings back wounderful memories of a town that I still call home even though I live overseas.
A memory of Swindon contributed by patricia beach
Extracts From Ashton Keynes & Wiltshire books
This Wiltshire village is known locally as the village of four crosses, all medieval. This view looks along High Road with Church Walk on the left past the cross shaft, and the young Thames just out of picture on the left. Cocks House, in the distance at the junction with Back Street, is unchanged.
An extract from from"Down the Thames Photographic Memories".
Our photographic tour starts some four or five miles from the traditional source of the Thames in this delightful Cotswold stone village, through which the young river flows as little more than a vigorous stream. It formerly powered a watermill with the Mill House on the right and its mill-leet to its left.
An extract from from"Down the Thames Photographic Memories".
Malmesbury Abbey`s unique south porch, dating from the mid 12th century and built in the Romanesque style, is decorated
with thirty-eight fine sculptures depicting detailed and elaborate images, some of which are based on Biblical scenes from
both the Old and New Testaments. The images are divided by columns with decorative patterns.
An extract from from"Malmesbury Photographic Memories".
Taken from the abbey roof,
this photograph shows the
15th-century market cross
in the centre, situated at
the north end of the High
Street. There are no road
markings on the road at
this date. The undulating
roofline of the houses in the
High Street makes a very
attractive scene.
An extract from from"Malmesbury Photographic Memories".
We are overlooking the Old Bell gardens and looking towards the river Avon and the Malmesbury Branch Railway. During
the mid 19th century, proposals were put forward to build a railway line to connect the town with the south of England. The
Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Railway Company put forward a bill to undertake the work, which was finally sanctioned on 21
June 1864. There were also negotiations between the W & GR, the GWR, and the Midland Railway. Progress was hindered by
the hostile attitude between the GWR and the Midland Railway, but eventually a ceremony to cut the first sod of the W & GR
was performed on 1 July 1865 by the Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire, using the silver-mounted ceremonial wheelbarrow
which is now in the Athelstan Museum. Problems between the various railway companies were not resolved for a further
few years, and the W & GR ceased to exist in 1871. Finally a branch line from the GWR line at Dauntsey to Malmesbury
was opened in December 1877, linking the town to Paddington; the station was built east of the town. A spur was also built
at Little Somerford, connecting the Malmesbury branch line to Bristol and South Wales. The railway was finally closed in
November 1962 and dismantled in 1963.
An extract from from"Malmesbury Photographic Memories".