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  • Bishops Cannings Parish Council Renovate YMCA Memorial

    Bishops Cannings Parish Council Renovate YMCA Memorial

    When I started Devizine I never imagined I’d be writing about a memorial which looked like a litterbin, but I did, because it did, and it was being used as one. I’m glad to say little over a year later the memorial has been restored to its former glory by Bishops Cannings Parish Council.…. A Read more

  • Professor Elemental Booms Trowbridge Town Hall with Raccoons and Cheesemakers

    Professor Elemental Booms Trowbridge Town Hall with Raccoons and Cheesemakers

    Type “smack me” into Google, at your own risk, and third predicted search is “…on the bottom with a woman’s weekly.” Six years since her passing, and over three decades since Victoria Wood first performed the Ballad of Barry and Freda her finest hour is everlastingly. Proof while often pushed into the “novelty” pigeonhole, comical Read more

  • Danny K & The Haters; Here’s my Small Axe

    Danny K & The Haters; Here’s my Small Axe

    Danny K & the Haters, sounds like a belligerent rockabilly band, but it’s not, it’s far more shameful than that. Devizes and District MP Danny Kruger turned his back on his constituents this week, labelling them “haters,” in order to brown-tongue the effortlessly-reasoned worst Prime Minister in English history. And guess how many people asked Read more

  • Laughable Excuses for Savernake Forest Proposals  

    Laughable Excuses for Savernake Forest Proposals  

    Last week I tried to convey how Savernake Forest has fond memories for all who live nearby it, and how it’s cherished by users in the same manner today, in the wake of a publication by Forestry England called “Our Shared Forest.” Ironic by title, it seemed to propose restricting the public to set walking Read more

  • Lovesong at The Wharf

    Director Freddie Underwood, who brought the highly successful Things I Know To Be True to the Wharf Theatre, Devizes in 2019 once again puts her personal stamp on this production with the use of movement and music partnering text….. Written by Abi Morgan Lovesong comes to the Wharf on Monday 23rd and runs until Saturday Read more

  • Easter at the Crown, Bishops Cannings

    Easter at the Crown, Bishops Cannings

    Looking south yonder from the Wansdyke atop Morgan’s Hill, you will see the spire of St Mary’s in the parish of Bishop’s Cannings, much less you belt past it on the A361, glad to have escaped Devizes’ congestion.….. Impressive is the church, recorded in the Domesday Book as held by the Bishop of Salisbury. Tis Read more