A meeting of History Portal Club, with Lucy Whitfield, Historian Together we'll look at commonly-held rumours about incidents in Chippenham's past that pepper local history discussion, and whether there's any truth in them - so we're talking aliens, murders, escaped wild animals, arson plots, palaces, accidents and so on. This interactive club session will explore […]

A town walk meeting of History Portal Club, with Lucy Whitfield, Historian. The guy that built the house that is now the Brunel Pub, by the arches, was John Provis. He, and his identically named dad, built a lot more of Chippenham than that - the Bear Hotel for example, and loads more. And Lucy's […]