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Are You Interested in
Box's Local History? Box Library is launching a new project this autumn to increase the local history facilities on offer in the library premises. As well as books and research documents, there will be quarterly displays and illustrated talks on different aspects of Box’s story. The project aims to build up a library of information relevant to Box and its residents, open to anyone to access. Box People and Places has agreed to offer support. |
What would you like to be included in the library records? What further research would you like for your interest and research on local families and houses? Do you have views about topics that need more investigation? How about your house and its plot of land in 1626? Would you like a copy of the burials in Box Cemetery to find your ancestor's grave? Should the project display photos of old Box families? Do you have family details that you are happy to share?
Inaugural Meeting
You can join an inaugural meeting about the local history hub in Box Library at 10.30 am on 3 October 2024.
Entrance is open to all, subject to holding a Wiltshire Library ticket (free and can be issued on the day). Come and let us have your views – or give feedback on our suggestions and sign up if you would like to be kept in touch with new events.
Alan Payne will give a presentation at the meeting of the Concise History of Box. He proposes to give an outline of the entire story of Box area showing how the history keeps changing from the Roman period to modern times. He says the talk includes new and challenging research which has emerged over the last decade which is helping to redefine the story of Box village. He promises that there are many new discoveries which change our knowledge of the area, including archaeological finds, a report about Box in the year after the Black Death, and the story of slave plantation owners in Georgian Box. He also has agreed to show some of the village tithe books of 1726-1731, never before displayed.
Inaugural Meeting
You can join an inaugural meeting about the local history hub in Box Library at 10.30 am on 3 October 2024.
Entrance is open to all, subject to holding a Wiltshire Library ticket (free and can be issued on the day). Come and let us have your views – or give feedback on our suggestions and sign up if you would like to be kept in touch with new events.
Alan Payne will give a presentation at the meeting of the Concise History of Box. He proposes to give an outline of the entire story of Box area showing how the history keeps changing from the Roman period to modern times. He says the talk includes new and challenging research which has emerged over the last decade which is helping to redefine the story of Box village. He promises that there are many new discoveries which change our knowledge of the area, including archaeological finds, a report about Box in the year after the Black Death, and the story of slave plantation owners in Georgian Box. He also has agreed to show some of the village tithe books of 1726-1731, never before displayed.
Library Exhibition
To celebrate the new project, there will be an exhibition in the library from September to November, illustrating the story of the village. If you want more details a brochure of the history will be available for readers with additional photographs and information. Lastly, a separate booklet will be available about the Children's Story of Box (also of interest to adults!)
To celebrate the new project, there will be an exhibition in the library from September to November, illustrating the story of the village. If you want more details a brochure of the history will be available for readers with additional photographs and information. Lastly, a separate booklet will be available about the Children's Story of Box (also of interest to adults!)
Make a note in your diary to be part of the project and just come along to Alan's talk if you are interested in the history of the Box village and the hamlets in the wider parish.