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Printing blocks made during the 1970s/early 1980s for postcards showing work by Ann Sullivan. Possibly for Aldbourne Civic Society. These images are created from photos of the plates, flipped and tweaked into black and white with digital magic.
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Etched copper plates with a business card from R J Gallimore, Printing and Stationery, address 120 London Road, Marlborough. Five digitally enhanced photos showing Aldbourne from Baden Hill, West Street, the Pond, the Square and The Butts.
December 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Devizes Assize Court saved and new home for Wiltshire Museum secured. Delighted to announce that The National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded us funding to transform the derelict Assize Court building into a spectacular new home for the Museum.
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Banner showing the front of the restored Assize Court and viualisations of the completed displays. Title reads Assize Court Saved.
December 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Wood and copper printing plates featuring sketches of Aldbourne by Ann Sullivan, who lived in Aldbourne during the 1970s and 1980s. I'm guessing made back in the 1970s (but not 100% sure). Now I know how the postcards were made if not exactly when!
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The image shows copper etched Aldbourne village scenes mounted on solid wood blocks. They are very detailed. The artist was Ann Sullivan who lived in the village during the 1970s and 1980s. The photo also shows a business card for R J Gallimore printing and stationery 120 London Road Marlborough. A postcard with an Ann Sullivan signature presumably printed from the wooden and copper blocks. But there are some differences which may be down to the blocks being worn from use.
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Avebury Vocal Ensemble, Music at Christmas, in St Michael's, Aldbourne marlborough.news/event/avebur...
Avebury Vocal Ensemble, Music at Christmas, in St Michael's, Aldbourne
Click here for tickets Our 2025 Christmas concerts are based around the atmospheric “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” by Ralph Vaughan-Williams. This
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November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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13 November 1925 newspapers reported that Aldbourne's Four Barrows were selected for official preservation as just one of many sites (over 70 according to the paper) on 'Wiltshire's numerous list' (photo 2011)
Looking back towards Aldbourne village from Four Barrows showing the beech and hawthorn trees on the track with hills in the distance and cloudy skies
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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The Parish News magazine 1980 tells us that veteran Jack Humphries from Aldbourne attended a Christmas Dinner at Buckingham Palace, the event was organised by The Not Forgotten, a charity still very much active today.
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Discover The Not Forgotten, enhancing lives of veterans and the serving military with events and support. Join us in honouring their service today!
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November 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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St Michael's Churchyard is the final resting place of William Henry Walker, who died in 1941 aged 77. The last of a long line of dew pond makers #OnePlaceWednesday #31DaysOfGraves
Gravestone in St Michael's Churchyard Aldbourne. Inscription reads Peace in loving memory of Mary Jane Walker who departed this life 12 Feb 1937 aged 78 years. Also of her husband William Henry Walker the last of a long line of dew pond makers who died 31 July 1941 aged 77 years. Reunited
October 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Inspired to wander up to the top of St Michael's Churchyard for a moment of quiet. Paused on the way up for a breather and the colours on the beech tree are stunning.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Oh wow, what a discovery by @thelineagefinder.bsky.social
My most recent find was a copy of A Country Camera by Gordon Winter (1971 edition) in the second-hand bookshop at @valeanddownland.bsky.social featuring Blossom, Golden and Spark in the capable hands of Harry Wootton and Arthur Watts (1911)
October 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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One of Aldbourne's great institutions, shared today for #OnePlaceWednesday - with thanks for posting the concert photo to @janh1.bsky.social 🙂
Photo today shows the band in 1885, from the Aldbourne Civic Society Archive ref 155
Photo dated 1885, with ten men and two boys all in uniform with peaked military style caps and at least one man with stripes on his sleeve. Instruments range from a large drum, trombone, and cornets.
October 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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John Veitch (1856 - 1920), Royal Navy, then Coastguard at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex and in retirement landlord at both the Crown and Blue Boar pubs in Aldbourne. Remembered at the weekend at the St Michael's Church Discovery Day - our village links with the sea
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The grave of John and Emily Veitch in Aldbourne churchyard shows an anchor on the cross The grave of John and Emily Veitch in Aldbourne churchyard shows an anchor on the cross. This photo shows a close up of the anchor.
October 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Welcome once again to #OnePlaceWednesday! As always, we’ll be using the hashtag throughout the day in posts about #OnePlaceStudies, that brilliant blend of #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory, and we hope you will join us by sharing your OPS news, views, links, pics, questions, suggestions, and more.
#OnePlaceWednesday. Image: A photo of open countryside with fields, trees, hedgerows, the occasional building, and some low, rolling hills. In the centre, and in the near distance, there is a tree in some sheep pasture, casting a long, early morning shadow while around a couple of dozen sheep are gathered beneath its leafy boughs. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
October 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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The railway didn't quite make it to Aldbourne, although it looked like a possibility in 1883 - read on ...
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All Aboard the Aldbourne Express
Way back in 1999 I was puzzled by a photo of a postcard. It was part of the preparations for the Aldbourne Civic Society exhibition in the Old School Room, Millennium Festival 2000. This coloured i…
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September 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Join us this Saturday 20th for our annual #heritageopenday this year celebrating all things architectural from our #archives & #localstudies collections. Meet the experts on #househistory & #familyhistory and why not drop in for a cuppa at our pop-up Heritage Café. See poster for more details.👇
Poster for Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre’s “Architecture in the Archives” Open Day on 20 September, 10am–4pm. Includes event details: archive displays, behind-the-scenes tours, conservation lab visits (10am–1pm), and a pop-up café. Poster includes photo of the History Centre plus logos for Wiltshire Council, Heritage Open Days, and Swindon Borough Council. A pink banner reads “FREE TO EXPLORE.”
September 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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"Aldbourne can boast that her name was formerly written Auburn; she can remember that Richard Jefferies, thus misled, sought to identify her with Goldsmith's "Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain"
Source: @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social scrapbooks 1920
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September 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Thomas Fairchild (1667-1729) was baptised in Aldbourne. The location of his memorial became known as the Hackney Road Recreation Ground. Renamed Fairchild's Garden in 2017, this open space has now been rejuvenated aldbournearchive.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/t... #OnePlaceWednesday #OnePlaceBaptisms
Thomas Fairchild 1667 – 1729
3 September 2025 update: The rejuvenated garden; as described by the creators of the bespoke street furniture and incorporating some excellent photos. Fairchild’s Garden, London – A former di…
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September 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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There's a full day of expert speakers lined up for Wiltshire Buildings Record Study Day on Saturday 18th October on topics as diverse as Model Farms, historic racecourses, William Morris, Quaker architect Brightwen Binyon, & Victorian architectural ornament:
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The Age of Innovation – Building in the 19th century - Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
Expert speakers at Wiltshire Buildings Record's Study Day on 'The Age of Innovation' will cover diverse topics including Model Farms, historic racecourses and William Morris.
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August 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Last weekend I met with a WWII evacuee to Aldbourne in 1939 with many memories and photographs to share. Inspired by this connection, I've been researching Raphael Tuck & Sons postcards. Love this one, showing the 'village council' gathering by the bench in the square
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Aldbourne village pond in sepia tint with Pond House the Crown Inn and St Michael's Church. There is a gathering near the bench in the square where village worthies have long rested to chat and to put the world to rights.
August 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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John Robinson, who played Professor Bernard Quatermass in the 1955 BBC Television serial, lived in Aldbourne from the early 1940s until 1946. His wife Kathleen was the granddaughter of Charles Smith 1818-1886, Maltster and Farmer in South Street #OnePlaceWednesday
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Article clipped from Evening Express
Clipping found in Evening Express published in Liverpool, Merseyside, England on 4/17/1933.
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August 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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A simple and intensely moving commemoration. The National Two Minute Silence for VJ Day 80 at Aldbourne Memorial Hall on Friday 15 August 2025
Photo includes a poppy wreath labelled VJ 80 which was placed on the Aldbourne Memorial Hall at the commemoration also an arrangement of yellow flowers laid in tribute for a father who served in the Burma campaign. Other photos show the names of those who died in the Second World War remembered on the Aldbourne Memorial Hall and the chalkboard giving notice of the Two Minute Silence that was placed by the hall committee to alert passers by during the days leading up to VJ Day. Our vicar and two representatives from the village who gave readings are shown during the service with the wreath and flowers in position.
August 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Love this little tree. Blossoms and berries make frames in their season.
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Football field Farm Lane Aldbourne. Site of the American Army Camp during the second World War. The Pitch with goalposts and houses in the distance are framed by haw berries and green leaves.
August 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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TODAY: A long standing village institution, supporting an even older village institution! The 21st Aldbourne Artists Exhibition (founded by Andrea & Peter West) in the Aldbourne Memorial Hall. Free entry to view and find a work of art. Profits to Hall funds. 10-4 Sunday 10 August 2025 🎨
A banner advertising the Aldbourne Art Exhibition beside the bench commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Aldbourne Memorial Hall opening in 1922. The Art Exhibition is raising funds for the Hall which can be seen in the background.
August 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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As VJ Day 80 approaches, my thoughts turn to the memories shared in Aldbourne for earlier commemorations. #OnePlaceStudies #OnePlaceWednesday
Some #VJDay75 Recollections
Aldbourne Memorial Hall VE and VJ Day 75th Anniversary commemorations have been vastly different to those originally envisaged. On 15 August 2020 there will be national events to mark the occasion,…
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August 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Harvest at Eastleaze, Aldbourne circa 1941. From the Aldbourne Civic Society archives #OnePlaceStudies #OnePlaceWednesday
Two large horses possibly Shires standing still hitched to what looks like a baling machine. One of the horses has a nosebag. The driver of the machine may also have his lunch which was brought to him by a woman in a summer dress standing by the baler. Two traditional hayricks can be seen in the distance and beyond those the rolling Aldbourne downs.
July 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Each year harebells spring up in a different place in the churchyard, and focus our attention on a different family grave. This year we are thinking about Florence Kate Bowes, died aged 9 years 6 months in March 1914, and her parents Joseph and Rose #HarebellChallenge @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Harebell soft blue flowers growing in long grass beside a gravestone with the churchyard of St Michael's, Aldbourne in the distance
July 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM