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A bit of advanced warning
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Not sure when my web hosting for this site is due (this year somewhen) but I will not be renewing it........ I just can't find the time to keep the Marlborough site up to date and the costs are going through the roof.....so I think after nearly 13 years it is time to pull the plug. Thanks to everyone for bein...
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Bloody roadworks
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I'm just about hacked off with these bloody holdups every morning. Poor buggers coming in from Swindon had to queue from traffic lights at Og St George!! Must have taken at least an hour.
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Is this the end for Riverbank Theatre??
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A little bird told me that Mr Spooner from Clatford was so fed up with the footdragging council that he about to pull the rug from under the whole scheme and withdraw his support......Anone else heard this??.....
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Christmas Card Recycling - Marlborough
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Does anyone know where Christmas Cards can be recycled? I think WH Smith might have stopped doing it this year.
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A bit of a moan
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I regularly read the forum but, apart from one post years ago, never contribute anything. With the New Year and all that, and probably something to do with hitting my 40's, I am going to have a moan about some aspects of Marlborough (some of my points are applicable to other towns I am sure) which get...
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Happy new Year
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A happy and healthy 2010 to everyone
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RIP Carnival
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We waited for 2 hours last night to see if anyone would turn up for the Carnival meeting....and as we expected not one person did....so what happens now? We will hold a donations evening and an AGM when the books have been done and then the carnival will be wound up and the books/money etc. will be lodged e...
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Happy Christmas
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Happy Christmas to everyone, may you get what you asked Santa for and have a fantastic day. Rob and Angie
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Hands up who's ready for Christmas?
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Finally, I think I'm finished with Christmas shopping, not too bad this year! How's everyone else doing? If I don't have a chance to post again before, have a really great Christmas and New Year with your loved ones Susan
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How many visit this forum
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It looks like we have up 150 people actually viewing this forum....but only a handful post on here ....well now's your chance to post ...this is an experiment to see how many regular forum users we have....so feel free just post whatever you like (within reason) ....the more people that post the bette...
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Oh good it's Halloween
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Well it's come round again .....all hallows eve....spoilt by the American nonsense of trick or treat, I'm afraid the film E.T. has a lot to answer for as it brought this bad idea to our shores in the first place.
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Moving to Malborough
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1969 BBC documentary about Marlborough
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8343000/8343064.stm
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mop fair
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hello
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i just want to make my self known and here i am my name is liz and the reson i joined this site is i am looking for someone i went school with in the 90s i am hopeing someone will know them or of them there name is kevin clarke and he went to st lukes school in marlborough then the school moved to swindon if any one...
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The proposed New Tesco
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Hasn't anyone got any comments about the proposed Tescos on the White Elephant Business Park?
As usual the G&H had a misleading headline (unless they know more about planning law than anyone else). It should not have been "Tescos are coming" but "Tescos would like to come&qu...
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Marlborough Fun Day
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OK we think the funday was a great succes.....so please can we have your thoughts on the day....what was good, what was bad, what was needed or not needed etc. etc. Come on if you went don't be shy post up your views, we need them
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searching for my grandad
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hello all, i know you are all prob to young to help me, but we all have older relatives do we not? please has anyone any information on a arthur caswell? i know he lived in marlborough at some time in his life if not all, i think he was born in overton. thank you. i think he died in the seventies?
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Website Redesign
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Hi all,I'm interested in redesigning your Marlborough website for free, so that I can then use it as a portfolio piece for my website business. Before I contact whoever runs this, I thought I would see whether the users wanted it and were interested. Of course, there is no obligation to accept it if yo...
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J.H.Pope, Marlborough
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I saw an old Garden Roller at a sale yesterday, the make on the roller was Alexander, but in a roundel on the handle was the name J H Pope Marlborough. Could it have been made inMarlborough or was J.H.Pope an irnomonger who had his name cast onto the handle?
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town council office door
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has anyone seen the red front door of the town council office, I have never ever seen such bad painting some prat has just daubed red gloss paint over the original coat with no prep and no thought, check it out the next time you are passing.
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bollocktics
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can anyone tell me where I can find out who is standing in the euro and local elections I have only recieved the facists flyer (BNP) and the old chestnuts (dobson) I tried googling but came up with nothing for marlborough. are they SO crap that they can't be bothered
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Railway Modellers
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Hello, are there any Railway Modellers in Marlborough or the local area who would be i nterested in meeting occasionally (once a month,a quarter,a year) to gossip,exchange information, learn from or help others, or visit each other's layouts. Meet possibly in a local Pub, or in our homes, shed or ga...
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Some B&B suggestions please
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Hi there Visting in your summer to do some family history research and wonder if anyone can recommend a B&B in either Marlborough or Devizes for a few nights - twin share and pleasant My ancestor was the Marlborough and Devizes prison governor in the 1800s so hoping to find some more information ab...
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Quaint Americans!
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http://www.travelistic.com/video/show/2290/Avebury they cannot pronounce the towns name correctly!
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There will be a new Tescos in the area in May
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http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=9452).
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where is everone
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I suppose everyone is on face book is that the reason no one is using this forum or is it because nothing happens in marly what shall we talk about the crap councilers? the crap government ? the even crapper tory opposition the wankers, sorry bankers. or even the existance of god and the tooth fairy come o...
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Marlborough Leisure Centre
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What is it with the staff at Marlborough Leisure Centre? Why do they feel it necessary to be so rude and officious with the people who try to use their services and ultimately keep them in a job?! Is it just me or does anyone else share this view?
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M&S Closing
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Well it has finally been announced that M&S is to close. What with Woolies going it will make a big dent in the High Street. In the current climate it is hard to imagine any other trader wanting to "expand" into Marlborough so it looks like we are in for a future of an ever emptying High Stre...
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The Common and the Golf club
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The golf club occupies 66% of the common leaving 33% for use by the every other organisation and person in Marlborough .....now they want another 2 acres for a driving and practice range, including some "temporary" buildings to play from, this will not be fenced off so the public using th...
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Happy New Year
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useless town hall
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I've just read in the local rag that the powers to be are going to spend a shed load of cash on the town hall very commendable that they are doing something for the disabled but I have a much better idea pull the place down it's not used that much, mainly as a sale room for a continuously closing down sale...
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merchants house
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Marlborough Genealogy Query
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Hello to everyone on this forum - I have just joined. After many years of researching my family tree I have found that I have connections to Marlborough on both my maternal and paternal sides of the family. Leaving the maternal to one side can anyone tell me where the Kings Arms Hotel in Marlborough is...
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Savernake Hospital
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Friends of Savernake Hospital are celebrating their 50th Anniversary by launching a website. Find out what goes on in Savernake now, have a look at the History Project that will be launching soon and get news of the legal campaign..... yes... it's still going on!
Have a browse - leave a comment - joi...
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So !!! a relief road
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In the paper today there is a possibility that a relief road will be built from the bottom of Postern hill to the top of Granham Hill and this will take some of the traffic away from George lane ....then I spot that when this is built there will also be houses built around it as well as Super market .....now...
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French woman arriving in Marlborough looking for an accomodation
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Hello everybody, I am soon arriving in your lovely city to be a french teacher at St John's school. I am thus looking for an accomodation, preferably a shared one in order to meet easily some new people. I'm 27, serious but I also like to go out with friends. I like many sports, cinema, music, litteratur...
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Marlborough Fun Day
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Well? Did you all enjoy it ......did you know it was on .......we are after any feed back ...good ...or bad, so we can make next years event better.......this year was a big experiment for us all and has taken since January to organise.
So come on, ideas please
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Our LOCAL? Paper
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I could not believe it when I heard today that all articles written for our local Gazette & Herald are now sent to India to be edited! The paper's layout is now also made up over there and then sent electronically to a UK printer.
You couldn't make it up could you!
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DUCK'S TOY SHOP CLOSING - an end of an era
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With all the recent posts concerning High Street Shops, I am sure you will be saddened to hear that one the few remaining family businesses, Duck's Toy Shop, will be closing in the coming months after serving the town since 1926. It is not being sold as a going-concern and within time 114, High Street w...
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New shops ...what would you like to see
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Just wondered ....what type of shop would you like to see in Marlborough High Street.....apart from a cheaper food shop that is as everyone knows we need one of those,
We could do with a cheap clothes shop Male/Female....something like TK max or for Eddie Grundy (the knicker man) to set up a shop
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New Shops?
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Anyone heard whats happening to the old newsagents shop next to the Library? They seem to have been months working on it's interior. And what about London Road Post Office? Whats that going to be?
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Battling for Charity. Earl Rivers Regiment,Sealed Knot
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Hello.Looking for a new hobby?Something, thats sociable and fun for all the family?Then why not join the largest re-enactment Society in Europe!I would like to introduce you to Earl Rivers Regiment of Foote...
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Minal Beating the Bounds
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I know it's the 11th hour but..... Minal Beating of the Bounds is on Sat 3 May at 9am meet next to the church. I'll post some photos and report later in the weekend
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New Primary school
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Just got back from a meeting about the new proposed primary school that will replace St Peter's and St Mary's infants held in Chopping Knife Lane. Well...... The venue was chosen to accomodatte the expected large turnout..... I think there was FIFTEEN people!!! When this is built the traffic co...
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if i am not mistaken there is a raven residing in the forrest maybe it was partly blowen here during last weeks storms ?
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it all gone quiet over there
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whats happened, why is no one adding to the forum (apart from those civil war anoraks) come people . nothing from rob even. there's the carnaval revival to comment on and there's ummm ummmm yes I see now not much to think about in marly. what do you think of this then, lets close the high street to all traff...
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holiday accommodation
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Hi. Just wondering if anyone knows any 2-bedroom flat/house on High Street available for one week rental in this coming July. We are looking for one that is within walking distance to Marlborough College (cos we don't have a car with us).
Our other option is to stay in a hotel. I found Castle& Bal...
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oldie/newbie
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Hi people, Im an old marlbarian (if thats how ya spell it). I was moved here when i was 6 months old way back in prehistoric days of 1944. I left marlborough finally in 1974 as my parents moved to Northampton. My step fathers name was Ted Quarterman if any of you remember him. They moved while i was at sea and...
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How will the closure of our MIU affect you
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How will the cosure of Savernake Hospital MIU (minor injuries unit) affect you.......
I would like to know if and how this closure will affect you.....for instance: I have to have regular blood tests and used to go to the MIU early in the morning to have this done so I could go to work afterwards, neve...
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