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1878 |
Le Marchant Barracks built in Devizes - home of the Wiltshire Regiment |
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Aldbourne
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1878 - 1879 |
Bronze Age Barrows north of the village excavated by Canon Greenwell - finds which are now in the British Museum include the Aldbourne Cup |
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Amesbury
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1878 |
Gas works built |
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Amesbury
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1878 |
Town brass band formed |
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Broughton Gifford
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1878 |
The nave of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin is re-roofed and the organ chamber formed, first certificate of proficiency is awarded to the school. A Mrs Hopkins gives a silver mounted flagon to the Church of St. Mary the Virgin. |
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Calne
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1878 |
Street lighting installed at Derry Hill |
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Corsham
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1878 |
Corsham Methodist Church built in Pickwick Road |
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Cricklade
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1878 |
Front of Congregational chapel replaced |
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Cricklade
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1878 |
Board School for Girls closed |
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Minety
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1878 |
Silver Street School was built, to cater for children in Lower Minety because of the railway |
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Pewsey
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1878 |
Church of England Mission Room built at King's Corner |
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Ramsbury
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1878 |
Mary Jane Lanfear bequeaths £600 to apprentice poor boys from Ramsbury and East Kennet |
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Sherston
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1878 |
Reverand Morgan begins the Methodist Church Sunday School at the chapel |
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Wootton Bassett
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1878 |
£400 is spent on a drainage scheme for the town; a Baptist community is formed |
