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admin · Site Admin Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 144

Let's have your fondest memories of Calne.

Perhaps it was a shop you used to visit as a child or a particular house/shop that has since been demolished to make way for a new modern building? Did you ever work at the Harris bacon factory - which probably put Calne on the map?

admin · Site Admin Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 144

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GTB · Bentlian Oldboy Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 604

I remember the huge Harris factory. It left a massive gaping hole in the centre of Calne when it was demolished back in 1984. Can anybody remember the bridge that went over the road at the bottom of Church Street?

Local lass · St. Mary's Old Girl Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2231

one of my first memorys is of the first bull dozer to get put into harris.

i can remember getting dragged down to the jumble sales what were held in the town hall on a friday morning by my mum.

playing 40 40 in in ernle road.#

catching butterflys by ernle road

wilkinsons toy shop used to love it.

going to the firework displays up the football club.

the snow of 83(might of been 840 AND MAKING A HUGE SNOWMAN

THE PURPLE AND WHITE square flooring of the dinner hall of gutrie.

the town cyer in guthrie coming in to the playground shouting oh yay

the market in the pippen on a friday

Local lass · St. Mary's Old Girl Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2231

can anyone remember a shop where you used to play in ernle road and you walked up a track and it took you to the back of the shop.im guessing the shop must have been on oxford road

we used to buy bon bons and space saucers in there and of corse not forgetting rice paper at a peny a sheet Laughing

ecc's · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject:

used to like the joke section in wilkins

GTB · Bentlian Oldboy Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 604

That shop, local lass was the Mace shop which provided a handy short cut from Earnle Road through to Oxford Road. I think it has been closed now for about 20 odd years.

Steve B · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject:

Who can remember the smells that the Harris factory used to give off? ONe minute it would be a salty bacon smell, the next it would be of rotting meat from the abbatior.

daffy · Harris's Factory Worker Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 265

my memories or Calne would have to be

1... scrumping apples from gardens in oxford rd .
2... westmarts (i think thats what it was called ) in the precinct ,they sold cheapo things .
3..playing tennis in the square in Ernle road
4.... going down the cafe on a sat morn with friends at 10 yrs old and having a pot of tea .
5...the heavy snow in the 80s ,going sledging up by the fire station
6... going to sunday school in the oxford hall
7... that little sweet shop in north street ,army and navy sweets ,kop kops ,blackcurrent and liquirish .
8... playing about in Harris whilst it was being demolished .
9.... building dens in Ernle road
10..buying wham bars at tichs newsagents at william st.

GTB · Bentlian Oldboy Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 604

I remember Tich's very well in William Street which was just up the road from where we used to live. Tich Richens (the owner), who was in his 60's knew every school kid by name during the 1970's and 1980's. There was a launderette next door where we used to go if it was raining because it was warm and dry. There was also a butchers shop there where we used to get rabbits and chicken feet to take to school and frighten the girls. Laughing