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Top Dog · Site Moderator Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 1624 Status:

With all the redeveloment of the town,what are/were your favourite 5 buildings or objects in the town?
Mine

1.The pigs
I can always remember as a child playing on them.

2.St marys church.
excelent building steeped in history.

3.Doctors pond
Every child who grew up in calne has fed the duck here.

4.The cottage next to the shop on angels corner on north street.it has a lovely caractor,and such a small frount door.

5,The friday market what used to be held in the pippen before sainsburys,when it took up both car parks.

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Chepfer · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject:

Good topic,

Calne is steeped in hidden gems....

1. I loved the old Ebor house in wessington avenue (knocked down now)< it was like a french chateu all hidden away, winsotn churchill stayed there during the war !!!!. But they still knocked it down, it's called Ebor gardens now.

2. The house that's at the entrance to castlefields, looks like a castle, is pretty unique.

3. St marys church is amazing, if you get the chance, climb the tower onto the roof, there are inscriptions dating back to the 1600's inside the lower part of the tower (the bit that didn't fall down, when it was a spire !!).

4. The old Naffi house in church street (reputididly the oldest standing house in Calne) I know the present owner and this place id just amazing, with an old Masonic fireplace (engraved) and a cellar that was supposed to have held meetings of the masons and used for ceremonial use.... just amazing place.

5. If you walk behinf the church along the footpath, there is a house there, look over the wall, it is on 3 stories, it seems to be built into the cliff, facinates me..... it's called .......... Hall.

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iamelliot · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:45 pm Post subject:

i was thinking about this the other day..

in no particular order:)

- the massive slide that used to be on the recreation ground (might not have been massive, but it looked massive at the time)

- the pigs!

- ebor house - I remember sneaking up into there when I was a kid

- the tiny yellow/orange houses just off The Green

- the big grass area that used to be opposite the strand

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Martin Peck · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject:

1. The yew hedges in the churchyard used to hide in them as a toddler.
2.Heaths newsagents on the Strand always full of Tin Tin books and Rupert Bear annuals that I still collect.
3.The old school buildings on the Green
4. The old Guthrie school up the lane.
5.Wilkins toy shop when they had the fire work in used to lust after the most enormouse bangers.
6. Parkhouses butchers where you paid the lady through a little window.
7.The clothes shop that had a system of vacuum tubes that carried your money in cylinders to the office.

Ok I now I did 7 and none of you are old enough to remember them.
Martin

GTB · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject:

I remember the Wilkins toy shop well. I used to walk past it everyday on my way back home from school and often used to pop in there to buy practical joke packs - itching powder, peppered black jacks, etc. Most people of a certain age bemoan the fact of that shops demise.
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Martin Peck · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject:

I remember wheeling my first bike out of that shop. There was a little guy who used to fix up the bikes out the back.
Martin

Peter Dolman · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:56 am Post subject: 5 things

Martin I well remember your choices.

I delivered papers for Heaths paper shop. The wooden floor was like walking on a bouncy castle where the floor joists were so old.

The Guthrie School up the narrow lane by the side of the undertakers which is now a house was my 1st memory of going to school.

The junior school on the green where Mr Rogers the head master canned every boy when his window was broken by a piece of ice. As no one would own up we were all punished (1963).

Parkhouses (hairdressers) and the Co op (Halifax) both had the vacum tubes for moving money and notes to the offices upstairs.

How about the hair dressers between Buckridges and the Midland Bank (HSBC). It was up the stairs, on the ground floor was a tobacconists, and had proper chairs with leather strops to sharpen the cut throat razors on. It would be heaving if still open a fantastic place.

Another place of interest was the cafe above Gabbs the butchers (1st floor of the library?) I well remember sitting up there drinking coke from a bottle.

Calne had many interesting building and businesses which have disappeared over the years, shame but that's progress?

Chepfer · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject:

The slide you are talking about is still in use !!!!!!. If you want to relive you childhood memories, then pop on down to the Atwell wilson motor museum!!!!!!! It is there in all it's glory.