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History Stories
The Workhouse
The Amesbury Workhouse, or Amesbury Poor Law Institution, was constructed in 1836. The Poor Law Union which operated the workhouse,...
Amesbury Cinema
Do you remember the art deco-style Plaza Cinema in Amesbury, which stood on the site of the current St Melor surgery? Maybe you remember...
HMS Coltsfoot and Amesbury
In a corner of the Amesbury History Centre lies a somewhat forgotten and dusty plaque commemorating the adoption in 1942 of HMS Coltsfoot...
The Story of the Death of Leonard Williams: The Amesbury boy who was hit by an aeroplane (twice)
On 19th May 1912, a young man living in Amesbury became probably only the second spectator to be killed by an aeroplane in England. ...
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