A slide projected onto a wall, having been found in a box from the late Maureen Albright - Aldbourne Photographic Club. The photo shows a gathering on Aldbourne village green in 1974 with speakers standing on the market cross and flags flying

Incredible to see footage from the 101st Airborne Association visiting Aldbourne in 1974 via BBC Wiltshire, including Oliver Hawkins, Anthony Brown, Joseph Beyrle and Aldbourne Band
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I try to visit Studland on the anniversary, but sadly won't make it down this year. So will be pausing by the apple tree to take a moment to remember.

Studland Bay memorial for the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards who died during Exercise Smash 1 on 4th April 1944. Photo 2025. The Memorial is polished black with gold lettering mounted on stone. Poppy wreaths have been laid and there are boats on the sea in the background. The names of the fallen are Lieutenant Charles Robert Gould (C Squadron, 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards), Sergeant Victor Hartley (C Squadron, 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards), Corporal Arthur Jackson Park (C Squadron, 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards), Corporal Victor Noel Townson (B Squadron, 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards), Trooper Albert Victor Kirby (C Squadron, 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards), Trooper Earnest Granville Petty (C Squadron, 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards)

Apple tree dedicated to Cecil Newton planted during the Aldbourne village commemoration for VE Day in 2025. The leaves are out and the blossom is about to appear.

Studland Bay memorial to the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards who died on 4 April 1944. Cecil Newton lived in Aldbourne and spent a lifetime honouring his fallen comrades. Cecil died, aged 101, just days before Aldbourne commemorated VE Day 80. The apple tree planted in his name is about to blossom.

Pink cherry blossom on a tree by the Aldbourne village pond. St Michael's Church is in the background and in front is a banner showing that the Aldbourne Heritage Centre is now open at weekends. Operated by volunteers so if making a long or special journey please contact the centre to check it will be open https://aldbourneheritage.org.uk/

Blooming beautiful blossom by Aldbourne Pond this morning. The cherry tree was planted in 1976 as a memorial for Mr Oliver Hawkins (1889-1975). Heritage Centre now open at weekends. Staffed by enthusiastic volunteers. To check opening times please visit aldbourneheritage.org.uk

Myths, Monuments, and Memory We are delighted 2026’s exhibition will be titled “Myths, Monuments, and Memory”, curated by Lauren and Jane Golding. This exhibition will explore the myths and legends associated with the...

I will have a few pictures on display at the "Myths, Monuments and Memories" exhibition at the Uffington Museum. It will be open 2-5pm every weekend and bank holiday Monday from Easter to end of October.

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Aldbourne is also the subject of a registered #OnePlaceStudy! Naturally, the Doctor’s visit to Devil’s End is remembered by @aldbournearchive.bsky.social...

Photo shows three books. Ramsbury Then and Now by Barbara Croucher. All for the Empire by Roger Trayhurn and Mark Child. Holy Wells of Cornwall by A Lane-Davies, Federation of Old Cornwall Studies

My history haul from the Oxfam bookshop in Marlborough today, including *All for the Empire* by Roger Trayhurn and Mark Child. In 1910 the play *The Village Wedding* written by Charles McEvoy for the Aldbourne Players was performed at The Empire, Swindon #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceWednesday

George Marshall Watts Scouts in Aldbourne 1910 (including Clifford Brown) GMW centreNewspaper cutting 1933 courtesy of Wiltshire Museum, Devizes In 2014 I happened to be in the Post Office when I overheard a gentleman a…

Snowdrop season always brings to mind George Marshall Watts (1854-1937), and a chance encounter with his great-nephew in the Aldbourne post office back in 2014 aldbournearchive.wordpress.com/2020/02/10/g... #OnePlaceWednesday

10 Trees from a One Place Study The good folks at the Society for One Place Studies are celebrating their 10th birthday this month. I joined up with the Aldbourne Archive in April 2023, so am very much the newbie. The advice and …

More trees in the village on this link, including the prunus in full blossom, from 2023 celebrating the 10th anniversary of the @oneplacestudies.bsky.social aldbournearchive.wordpress.com/2023/09/07/1...

“At a meeting of the Coronation Committee [March 1937] the offer of Miss Satchell, Red Cottage to provide trees was accepted and a Tree Committee appointed. A prunus was planted between the bridge and Miss Fosters garden wall [South Street]”
Source: Ingpen Papers at Wiltshire Museum, Devizes

The picture shows tiny bubbles of prunus blossom with the Aldbourne watercourse, brook or bourne along South Street.

Paused to check bubbles of blossom just beginning. I'm not sure if this tree IS the one planted in 1937, but every year the blossom is a herald of spring, and it's a joy to watch the flowers appear #Aldbourne

This paragon of powders was advertised as available from Moulding; Palmer; and Tayler in Aldbourne
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Source: British Newspaper Archive / Moulding family history

Marlborough Times 1860. Source British Newspaper Archive. Advert reads "BROTHER FARMERS Wheeler's Pastry Powder is used at North Farm, making bread, which it greatly improves, both for lightness and whiteness. Valuable testimonial from Eton College: Wheeler's Pastry Powder has been well tested in the kitchen, and found to answer admirably"

"Highly approved in the Royal Household, Wheeler's Pastry Powder produces a handsome, wholesome and delicious article in pie-crusts ... and all kinds of pastry" As supported by the inventor of the celebrated Agricultural Liquid Drill, Mr Chandler of Aldbourne #OnePlaceAdverts Marlborough Times 1860

Good to stay connected, for #BrewMonday and any day 🫖
@samaritans.bsky.social Remembering 50 years : Aldbourne Beating the Bounds (2014)

My first visit to Aldbourne was in 1963. We were apparently on the way to my grandparents near Swindon. I was in a carrycot. Dad always said he drove through the snow. Surely not those snow drifts! Never thought I'd live here, much less write about the village history. Funny how things turn out.

Aldbourne winter 1963 YouTube video by Ron Morley

A brisk morning today with frost and mists gradually disappearing in bright sunshine. Time to remember 1963 🥶 With thanks to Ron Morley
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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.

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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Banner showing the front of the restored Assize Court and viualisations of the completed displays. Title reads Assize Court Saved.

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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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.

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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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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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

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)

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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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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

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

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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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)

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

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.

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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#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.

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.

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…

The railway didn't quite make it to Aldbourne, although it looked like a possibility in 1883 - read on ...
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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.”

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.👇