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Memories
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Cippenham J.S. & The Flypast For Queen Elizabeth
I recall classes being abandoned in the afternoons when I first attended Cippenham J.S. (Mrs Jones class?) due to the practice by the RAF flypast culminating at Farnborough for Q.E.II. A huge display of ...Read more
A memory of Cippenham by
Derry Hill Wiltshire
I did not live in Derry Hill, but rented a cottage there, Primrose Cottage, in 1990. I was introduced to Wiltshire in the 1980s by my husband's mother who had been based near Pewsey in the Land Army during the Second World ...Read more
A memory of Derry Hill in 1990
My Grandmother Was From Cippenham And Moved To Canada
I and my sister are trying to get geneaology info on our maternal grandmother who grew up in Cippenham. Her name was Mary Freeman and she was the daughter of Daniel and Roseann Freeman of ...Read more
A memory of Cippenham in 1890 by
Colerne In The Second World War Continued
Those of us at Colerne school who passed our 'scholarship' exam at the age of about eleven usually went on to Chippenham Secondary School, which probably goes under a different name now: it's at ...Read more
A memory of Colerne in 1940 by
Hawthorn Box Fields
Pat - it's lovely to read about Hawthorn as my grandmother Mrs Berrett and my Uncle Peter and Aunt Hilda Evans also lived there. School holidays were spent picking blackberries at the old D.P camp and playing in the ...Read more
A memory of Hawthorn in 1955 by
Main Street, Cippenham
This Main Street is the A4 Bath Road approaching Everret's Corner from Taplow direction toward Slough. Slough was the (Road) Safety Town.
A memory of Cippenham in 1965 by
Cippenham Schools
School on left, Westgate wasn't the only school but it is the only one I never went to. Below was the Primary and Junior, this was the Senior till 1953 when Haymill was built. Whilst building it was Junior but when finished ...Read more
A memory of Cippenham in 1950 by
Chippenham Swimming Pool
I was about 12 when the pool opened and what excitement it brought to us kids of Chippenham. I learnt to swim their with my friends (Margaret Ritchie, Jean West etc. and many more). I remember the bank being covered in ...Read more
A memory of Chippenham in 1961 by
Western House , Cippenham , Berks
I am looking for a 'photo of Western House , Cippenham before it was demolished and replaced by the Western Hose School.
A memory of Cippenham by
My Childhood
I was born at West View, Stanley in August 1939. My father bought 2 cottages and knocked them into a very large house. I had 5 older siblings and my mother's father lived with us. Our family name was House. I loved every ...Read more
A memory of Stanley in 1940 by
Captions
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The public were provided with a diving board, dry and wet-side changing cubicles, a children's paddling pool, a first aid room and a staff mess room, which was provided by the Chippenham Amateur Swimming
Chippenham High Street is much changed today. The street is closed to traffic, Lennards on the left is now a solicitors and the drab building to the right has been spruced up.
St Andrews church, Chippenham, viewed from the market place.
Today the main road (the A342) is thronged with traffic travelling between Devizes and Chippenham.
The people of Chippenham enjoy their leisure time on the Island, probably at the weekend.
Today the main road (the A342) is thronged with traffic travelling between Devizes and Chippenham.
The shop front visible at the top of the High Street is the Chippenham Co-op Society.
The ornate building on the left is no longer The Chippenham Co-operative Society, but a department store. On the right is a grand stone shopfront, with decorative carving at the top.
In the late 19th century the hotel was run by S Buckle - this is where Joe Buckle, a well-known Chippenham trader, was born.
This building, along with Nos 42 and 43, were demolished, and a modern post office was opened on 10 June 1959 by Sir David Eccles, MP for Chippenham.
No 16, next door, was occupied from the 1890s until 1916 by Wheelers, who specialised in selling Goss ware as souvenirs of visits to Chippenham.
At centre right a Bristol bus (Service No 65 to Chippenham) is leaving Rolleston Street with the Bristol Omnibus Company offices on the corner.
It was designed by the Chippenham architect Walter Rudman, , gives details of the construction by Blackford & Son: the building used '3650 cart loads of stone …. 75000 tiles cover the roofs' and 'the
John Coles was a key figure in the provision of education in Chippenham. A
