A much-loved tramp from Malmesbury who walked across much of the UK will have a bench unveiled in his memory by Mayor Catherine Doody.

Ken Hudson, who took part in the Normandy landings as a marine, was known around Malmesbury for his entertaining conversation and bright personality.

He died from heart disease in November 2008 aged 84, while staying at Athelstan House.

On Tuesday his friends and Mayor Doody will unveil the bench outside Malmesbury Libra…

Rules for wearing Decorations and Medals

1. Decorations and Medals to be worn on Full Dress Uniform at Ceremonial Parades only. They should not be worn when on active duty, such as Drills or Fires.

2. The method of wearing Decorations and Medals on Fire Brigade Uniform (Full Dress) shall be as follows :

The position of the Suspender Bar for Decorations and Medals shall be in a horizontal line not more than two inches nor less than one i…

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Enrolments (Supreme Court of Judicature)

1906 Part 14 No. 162

Luce
and Earl of
Suffolk and
10/- others } This Indenture made the thirty first day of March One Thousand eight hundred and ninety six Between Charles Richard Luce of Malmesbury in the County of Wilts Esquire of the one part and The Right Honourable Henry Charles Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire of Charlton Park Malmesbury aforesaid Sir Richard Hungerford Pollen Barone…

 

Athelstan Walk

Roy Cooper

Wootton Bassett

 
EKCO was involved with the design and manufacture of airborne radar systems for military and civil use since 1939, where the emphasis during the war was obviously on Military radars for the bomber fleet.

After the war, the company built on their experience and developed a civilian weather radar system, which was first installed in a civil aircraft in 1949.

In the 1950's, there was continuous development and progress through the E38, E120…

 

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Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door,
Pillow and bobbins all her little store;
Content, though mean; and cheerful, if not gay;
Shuffling her threads about the live-long day,
Just earns a pittance; and at night
Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light.

William Cowper 1731-1800, from his poem ‘Truth’

Introduction

When I offered to write a leaflet on lace in general and Malmesbury lace in p…

 

Died January 19th, 1897.

Reprinted by permission from The Temperance Worker for March, 1897.

“His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world :-'This was a man.'”

To no particular class belongs the honour of usefulness, and from the humble life the most efficient workers have frequently been raised.

James Player was born at Malmesbury, on…

 

Are you sitting comfortably, now I'll begin.

Ian Henderson A.K.A. “The Bishop of Milbourne”, son of Thomas Hobbes is inspired to place a memorial to the late great Tom Hob on Abbey ground between Whole Hog and neighbour to the left.

Ian sought ideas for possible wooden bench carved by sculptor on the lines of Westonbirt Arboretum Chainsaw Massacre. Forthcoming advice was to avoid wood for its negative survival abilities to the towns continual…

 

During the mid 1980's Andrew used to fly his kite in the fields behind our house. There had been pigs grazing these fields for years and the land hadn't been ploughed in living memory. Occasionally we walked across the fields with Andrew and noticed areas where the pigs had rooted up a lot of stone, which in some areas appeared to be in lines.

In one place there was even a row of stones several inches above the ground as if there were foundations of bu…

 

Introduction

For over 130 years, the engineering needs of the Malmesbury area have been catered for, in the broadest sense, by the firm of Ratcliffe and Son. The Ratcliffe name is still associated with domestic and public works that are an integral part of 21st Century Malmesbury, covering electrical, mechanical and civil engineering, both utilitarian and decorative.

Edwin Ratcliffe came to Malmesbury in 1869/70 and set up his Iron Foundry in a c…