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« on: December 27, 2018, 18:40:53 » |
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I did a Google search - What is there to do in Melksham? - and here is what it told me ... Things To Do & Days Out In Melksham
Boomerang Play Centre. Melksham. ...
The Lacock Spy Mission Treasure Trail. Chippenham. ...
Lacock Abbey. Lacock. ...
Trowbridge Sports Centre. Trowbridge. ...
ODEON Trowbridge. Trowbridge. ...
Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre. Chippenham. ...
Trowbridge Museum. Trowbridge. ...
The Chippenham Treasure Hunt Trail. Me thinks ... we may have an image issue ... anyone who's been here, please feel free to make some constructive comments! |
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« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2018, 19:56:39 » |
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I had a brief recce visit there before Christmas. Too short a time to check it all out but took note to look again. Springtime in Melksham? And why not? A town not done properly on foot is a town not explored.
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grahame
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« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2018, 20:05:30 » |
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I had a brief recce visit there before Christmas. Too short a time to check it all out but took note to look again. Springtime in Melksham? And why not? A town not done properly on foot is a town not explored.
Would be delighted to show you around some of the many things which are not on the Google list! |
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« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2018, 20:27:20 » |
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Long wait for the Trowbridge museum to open
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I like to travel. It lets me feel I'm getting somewhere.
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TaplowGreen
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« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2018, 22:12:53 » |
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I did a Google search - What is there to do in Melksham? - and here is what it told me ... Things To Do & Days Out In Melksham
Boomerang Play Centre. Melksham. ...
The Lacock Spy Mission Treasure Trail. Chippenham. ...
Lacock Abbey. Lacock. ...
Trowbridge Sports Centre. Trowbridge. ...
ODEON Trowbridge. Trowbridge. ...
Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre. Chippenham. ...
Trowbridge Museum. Trowbridge. ...
The Chippenham Treasure Hunt Trail. Me thinks ... we may have an image issue ... anyone who's been here, please feel free to make some constructive comments! Don't tell me the Casino's closed down?.........the Absinthe bar? And what about the legendary tribute to the Paris nightclub, the "Melksham Rouge"? 🙂 |
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JayMac
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« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2018, 23:11:21 » |
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One thing it's possible to do in Melksham more easily these days is take the train to somewhere else.  |
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"Good news for regular users of Euston Station in London! One day they will die. Then they won't have to go to Euston Station ever again." - David Mitchell
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grahame
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« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2018, 02:32:33 » |
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One thing it's possible to do in Melksham more easily these days is take the train to somewhere else. Hasn't been a single one since last Saturday ... |
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grahame
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« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2018, 02:38:09 » |
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Don't tell me the Casino's closed down?.........the Absinthe bar? And what about the legendary tribute to the Paris nightclub, the "Melksham Rouge"? 🙂
Many a true word written in jest ... you may be closer to the truth than you think, except not closed down and rather too niche to generate a lot of traffic. |
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« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2018, 08:20:10 » |
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« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2018, 10:15:17 » |
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I did a Google search - What is there to do in Melksham? - and here is what it told me ... Things To Do & Days Out In Melksham
Boomerang Play Centre. Melksham. ...
The Lacock Spy Mission Treasure Trail. Chippenham. ...
Lacock Abbey. Lacock. ...
Trowbridge Sports Centre. Trowbridge. ...
ODEON Trowbridge. Trowbridge. ...
Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre. Chippenham. ...
Trowbridge Museum. Trowbridge. ...
The Chippenham Treasure Hunt Trail. Me thinks ... we may have an image issue ... anyone who's been here, please feel free to make some constructive comments! That appears to be a list of things to do NOT in Melksham. Only the first could lay any claim to being in Melksham, and even there it is in Bowerhill rather than the town itself. I've probably only visited Melksham less than a handful of times but it always struck me as a pleasant little town to spend a bit of time wandering around. |
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grahame
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« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2018, 11:27:33 » |
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That is interesting thank you - I have added it to my "work in progress" page at http://www.mrug.org.uk/town.htmlI did a Google search - What is there to do in Melksham? - and here is what it told me ... Things To Do & Days Out In Melksham Me thinks ... we may have an image issue ... anyone who's been here, please feel free to make some constructive comments! That appears to be a list of things to do NOT in Melksham. Only the first could lay any claim to being in Melksham, and even there it is in Bowerhill rather than the town itself. I've probably only visited Melksham less than a handful of times but it always struck me as a pleasant little town to spend a bit of time wandering around. Exactly ... I've taken and rewritten a potted history of the town and marked all the places mention in my condensed history on a map ... add other section ... very much work in progress but there ARE quite a lot of things to look at - none to keep you attention for an extended period (we don't have a theme park - yet!) but all adding up to an interesting day. http://www.mrug.org.uk/town.html and it WILL go in the main menu at some point. |
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« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2018, 12:27:45 » |
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I have never been there, but nobody yet has mentioned the shopping centre. Surely you have shoe shops and a couple of banks. And at least a nice supermarket.
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grahame
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« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2018, 12:51:41 » |
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I have never been there, but nobody yet has mentioned the shopping centre. Surely you have shoe shops and a couple of banks. And at least a nice supermarket.
Err ... no shoe shops as such left. One bank left. Waitrose, Sainsbury, Asda, Lidl and Aldi, 2 co-ops and a Tesco express. What we do have - and I have a note of it to work into the town page in more detail - is a cluster of antique / nicknack shops which we should be using to encourage inbound traffic, and plenty of places for teas, coffees, or something a little more substantial and/or intoxicating - all within about 15 to 20 minutes walk of the station. And there's a number of rather interesting individual shops too. At the time my wife and I were very active in the Chamber of Commerce, we helped research and Lisa did a town map - but it gets out of date very quickly. Realistically there are things to encourage people to make a trip to Melksham, but shoe / clothes shopping ain't one of them. |
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« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2018, 13:02:08 » |
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I note that Melksham was also home to Henry Moule, "pioneer of the earth closet", surely that alone deserves to put the town on the map?
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« Reply #14 on: December 28, 2018, 13:09:47 » |
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I note that Melksham was also home to Henry Moule, "pioneer of the earth closet", surely that alone deserves to put the town on the map?
How come you are privy to that information? |
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