Calne, Doctors Pond c.1965
Photo ref:
C228103
Photo ref:
C228103
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This footbridge, now gone, went across the river Marden from the footpath to the left, and led into a bungalow which was situated on what is now Somerfield's car park. Dr Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), who was librarian and tutor to the 1st Marquess of Lansdowne at Bowood, identified oxygen in 1774 and is commemorated here by a plaque.
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Memories of Calne, Doctors Pond c1965
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I remember walking across this bridge every day on my way to school then on through the church yard and through the green.
I walked across this bridge four times every day, on my way to and from school (I used to go home for lunch). Home was Abberd Way, and the school was on the Green. I used to stop there to watch trout, and I can still recall the smell of flour from the mill. The 'pond' was actually the millrace, and a second stream joined the river at this bridge, from where it flowed south towards the Harris factory and pass under the Strand, to emerge finally next to the Town Hall.
Having been a resident of Calne from 1944 to 1962, I often walked across this little bridge, mainly on the way to the recreation ground. There used to be (and possibly still is) a plaque commemorating Dr Priestley's discovery of Oxygen in this place. I believe the pond was situated just behind Harris' factory but when I last visited the town there was a supermarket there.
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