Box People and Places
Latest Issue 26 Winter 2019-20 
  • This Issue
    • Free Heritage Trail
    • Central Box Residents
    • Genevieve Brunt
    • Smith Family around Box
    • Margaret Little
    • Webster Family
    • Railway Station Commemorated
    • Head and Chandler Families
    • Graham Brayshaw
    • Coach Trips 1950s
    • Village in 1950s
    • Springfield
    • The Wilderness
    • Humphries Brewer
    • Operation XX and Me
    • Goulstones & Goodhinds
    • Street Furniture
  • Georgian
    • Napoleon versus Box
    • Revolutionary Times
    • Coaches in 1830
    • Agricultral Census 1803
    • Tithe Apportionment
    • Slavery Families
    • Mullins Family, Schoolmasters
    • Box Churchyard
    • Sheridan's Duel
    • Tree of Life at Middlehill
    • Box's Highwayman
    • 1752: Very Odd Year
    • Witches, Quakers and Chapels
    • The New Road, 1761
    • Vulgarity in Box
    • Rebuilding the Village
    • Speke Family
    • Georgian People
    • Georgian Timeline
  • Previous
    • Issue 25 - Slave Owners
    • Issue 24 - Highwaymen
    • Issue 23 - Georgian
    • Issue 22 - War Memorial
    • Issue 21 - Childhood 1949-59
    • Earlier Issues 1 - 20 >
      • Issue 20 - Box Home Guard
      • Issue 19 - Outbreak WW2
      • Issue 18 - Building Bargates
      • Issue 17 - Railway Changes
      • Issue 16 - Quarries
      • Issue 15 - Rail & Quarry
      • Issue 14 - Civil War
      • Issue 13: Box Revels
      • Issue 12 - Where You Live
      • Issue 11 - Tudor & Stuart
      • Issue 10 - End of Era 1912
      • Issue 9 - Health & Leisure
      • Issue 8 - Farming & Rural
      • Issue 7 - Manufacturing
      • Issue 6 - Celebrations
      • Issue 5 - Victorian Centre
      • Issue 4 - Slump after WW1
      • Issue 3 - Great War 1914-18
      • Issue 2 - 1950s & 1960s
      • Issue 1 - 1920s
    • Index By Author
    • Currency Converter
  • People
  • Places
  • General
  • Series
    • Prehistory
    • Roman >
      • Early History Hoard
      • Roman Road Finds
      • Ancient Discovery
    • Saxon
    • Feudal >
      • Magna Carta in Box
      • Monk's Tale
      • Norman Conquest of Box
      • Tracing Bartholomew Bigod
      • When it Rained and Rained
    • Medieval
    • Tudor & Stuart >
      • Box in Civil War 1642 - 51
      • Wolf Hall and Box
      • Marsh Family
      • People during Civil War
      • Original Box Revels
      • Tudor Local Government
      • Ordinary People
      • Religion in Box, 1475-1660
      • Where You Live in 1626 >
        • Ashley
        • Central Box
        • Ditteridge
        • Hatt, Old Jockey and Blue Vein
        • Hazelbury
        • Henley and Washwells
        • Kingsdown
        • Middlehill
        • Rudloe
      • Hugh Speke Shaped Box
      • Walter Bushnell
      • Reformation in Box, 1535
      • Ten Tudor & Stuart Mansions
      • Death at Thomas à Becket >
        • For Whom Box Bell Tolled
      • Tudor & Stuart Timeline
      • John Aubrey's Box
    • Rail & Quarry >
      • Railway Men Remembered
      • Old Clay Pipe
      • Recalling Box Quarries >
        • Oily Series
      • Quarrymen and their Families
      • Built in Stoneyards
      • Quarries in 2000
      • Single Ticket
      • Trainspotting in Box
      • Light Through Box Tunnel >
        • More Light on Tunnel
        • Brunel Myth
        • Sunrise at Box Tunnel
      • James Moodey
      • Railway Staff in Box
      • Impact of Railways
      • Vivash Follow-up
      • Underground Quarries
      • Lambert's Stoneyard
      • Cranes at Work
      • Railway Policeman
      • Terror in Tunnels
      • Vivash Family
      • Railway Buildings and More
      • Why Railways Came to Box
      • Box in 1830
      • Building Box Tunnel
      • Boxing and Quarrymen >
        • More Jem Mace
      • Clift Quarry Steam Loco
      • Timeline 1830 - 1870
    • Late Victorian >
      • Edwardian Love Story
      • Northey Estate Sale 1912-1923
      • Box Fete & Friendly Societies
      • Methodism in Box
      • George Reeves, Quarryman Ganger
      • Dipsomania in Box
      • 1870 Start of Era
      • Victorian Farming
      • Ashley Leigh
      • Steam Mill and Cottages
      • Class Division
      • Grove Inn
      • Box House
      • Celebrations >
        • Jubilee Mug 1887
      • Parish Magazine History
      • Postcards of Box >
        • Postcard Solved
      • Skeate, Speck and Ponting
      • 1899 A Year of Festivities
      • Valens Terrace
      • Village Outings >
        • Excitement for Outings
        • Cycling Craze
      • Timeline 1840 to now
      • Local Pubs
    • Great War >
      • Photos 2014
      • Cecil Lambert's War
      • VAD Working Parties
      • After the War
      • Box School Research
      • School WW1 Projects
      • List of Servicemen
      • Embroideries
      • In Memoriam
      • Never Forgotten
      • Where They Lived
      • Christmas 1913 and 1914
      • Children in WW1
      • Neighbour Against Neighbour
      • Home & Far Away
      • Finding Private Hall
      • Box Before the War
    • Inter War Years >
      • Shops in 1920s
    • WW2 Index >
      • World War 2 Scrapbook
      • Box in 1943
      • Aircraft Factories
      • D Day Implications, 1944
      • Peace
      • After the War
      • Epitaph to WW2
      • New Page
      • Wartime People
      • Bath Blitz 1942
      • Invasion Threat 1942
      • Children in War
      • Air Raids on Box
      • Military Camps
      • Royal Visits
      • Your WW2 Tributes
      • Box Home Guard >
        • Home Guard Names
      • Life at Home
      • Dunkirk Evacuation
      • Evacuee Children
      • Village & Ammunitions Depot
      • Memories of WW2
      • In Service at Home
      • At War
      • Lead up to War
      • Servicemen & Women
      • Timeline 1939-45
      • Dennis Moss >
        • Hazelbury Air Crash
        • Air Crash Wreath
      • Flight Crew Lost
      • WW2 Resting Place
    • Modern >
      • Modern Art
      • Centre of Commerce
      • Shoe Sculpture >
        • Stiletto Sculpture
      • Characters in 1940s
      • Teenage Rebels, 1960s
      • Swingin Sixties or Not?
      • A Box Childhood
      • Box People from 1950s
      • Shops in 1950 Box
      • Box in 1950s
      • Summer of 1959
      • reCollections
      • Residents After the War
  • Contact
    • Blog
    • Q&A

Pam Kite

21/8/2017

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Susan Hatton wrote:
Many of you may remember Pam Kite. She was a well-known character in Box and a coordinator of Link for many years, and latterly a client.
 
Pam died on July 13th 2017 at her nursing home in Pembrokeshire. A memorial service is being held for her at St Thomas à Becket Church on Saturday September 16th at 11.30 am.
Her son contacted Link as he felt we would like to know the details of her memorial service and may wish to attend.
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Wildlife Photography

6/2/2017

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Nick Upton has worked as a biologist and a wildlife film maker for over 20 years. At Box Methodist Hall on Tuesday 21 February 7.30pm he talks about his background, his TV work and travels, and some of his major UK conservation project documentaries. Members are free and visitors £2 are welcomed.

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Rail & Quarry Era in Box

24/1/2017

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Click here Issue 15 if you want to know more about the impact of the railways in Box. We have newspaper reports of the making of Box Tunnel and how a very rural area was altered for ever. The new issue is full of stories and photos about Box and masses of comments from readers.
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Chalk and Cheese at Box NATS

12/1/2017

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Wiltshire's landscape shaped the history of the county as you will discover at Box NATS meeting on Tuesday 17 January at 7.30pm in Methodist Church. Steve Hannath explains the relationships between the rocks underground and aspects of Wiltshire life such as the natural landscapes, prehistory, vegetation & farming, vernacular architecture, settlement patterns & routes, extractive industries and water resources.

Visitors are welcome to turn up on the night £2 admission, members free and all enjoy free tea/coffee. Steve Hannath is a retired headteacher who ran two primary schools in North Wiltshire, so he should be expert on everything about chalk.
It's bring your own cheese though !!

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North Wiltshire Parish Churches

23/11/2016

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Box NATS meeting on Tuesday 13 December 7.30pm will be in a changed venue at Box School. It features Michael Rumsey taking us on a tour of important North Wilts parish churches. To get us in the Christmas spirit there are free mince pies plus tea or coffee.
It sounds a winner all round.
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Gardening For Wildlife

8/11/2016

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The Box NATS meeting at Methodist Hall, High Street, Box 7.30pm on Tuesday 15 November is from gardening guru Jacky Thomas who gives tips on how to attract wildlife to your garden and affect the local environment. It's free to members and open to visitors for only £2.
Pudsey Cakes will be available, for a small donation, after the talk and tea or coffee is free as always.
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World War 1 Exhibition Red Cross Hospital, Corsham

14/10/2016

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Exhibition 22 - 30 October
in Corsham Town Hall


The story of the women who manned an improvised hospital in Corsham to care for soldiers who had been wounded, often severely, is seldom recalled in detail.

There are numerous Box women who served in the hospital, travelling daily to do their bit for the war effort. You can find out about the ancestors of well-known Box village residents.

The record of their experiences is challenging and heroic. Newspaper reports and nurses' diaries explain their daily duties.The main hall of Corsham Town Hall has been reconstruced as a hospital ward to let you see first-hand.

Free entry and daily admission from 9.30am. All are welcome.
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Box and Corsham Stone History

28/9/2016

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Want to Know More about the Quarries?
Corsham Institute is putting on a free exhibition of the story of the stone industry in the area from its origin up to the present day.

The displays include the way that the stone was laid down, the Romans' use of the material, Box Tunnel and the Victorian methods of extracting the precious material and the military use of the quarries in the Second World War and the nuclear age.

The exhibition is at Hartham Park, just off the A4, from 18th to 22nd October and is open to everyone who wants to find out more about the amazing story of the stone which is such a feature in our history. Please check opening times on the poster attached or by contacting events@corshaminstitute.org.
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Bottles Fair and More 18 September

25/8/2016

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Don't miss this fair at Corsham School if you are keen on local bottles and related stuff such as advertising. There will be plenty to look at, including a magnificent Corsham flagon collection and some Box related information.

We are keen to see if there is any MAPs bottles from Box Hill and any Chippenham ginger beer bottles on display.
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Box Revels Photos Needed

25/8/2016

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Please can you help with early photos of Box Revels from 1980s? We need them to illustrate the missing years from the history of the village May holiday festivities at: http://www.boxpeopleandplaces.co.uk/modern-box-revels.html
Please get in touch if you can help William (and us) Win the Day.
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