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Dorothy Robertson – Associations with Calstone

My associations with Calstone are through the Moore family and the Bowsher family. I used to visit my Bowsher grandparents ...
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30 & 31 Greens Lane circa 1913

Judy Stempfer (nee Francomb)

I came to live in Calstone when I was about five years old in 1944. My mum and dad had ...
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Madge Cornell

I was born in the year 1926 at 36, Hayle Cottages, Nr. Calne. (that was the postal address) and I ...
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Margaret Joan Embling (nee Drew)

Margaret Joan Embling (nee Drew)

I was born in Calstone in 1930 in a house behind the Chapel at Theobalds Green. My mother was Lillian ...
Michael Maundrell opening Reading Room exhibition

Millennium Village History Exhibition

The village held a history exhibition in the old Reading Room at the top of Sprays Hill in March 2000 ...
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Calstone Jubilee Signpost and bus

Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Signpost

Tim Havenith, from Calne Heritage Centre, sent me the wonderful photo above asking if I knew what happened to the ...
The Changing Scene - Calstone

The Changing Scene – Calstone

This was taken from a Gazette and Herald article in the 1950's and reprinted in The Villages magazine in March ...
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The Mills Family Memories

Maurice’s Story My mother and father, Minnie and Jim Mills were originally Gloucestershire people where I was born at Lydney ...