LAST week’s photos of Harris’ factory being pulled down prompted Nick Baxter to email about Hog Street in Calne.

The Wiltshire History Man Facebook site carries his plea to resurrect the name. He writes: “Calne has an association with pigs which predates Harris’s. The Calne borough map of 1728 shows a narrow and short street, leading off the then Market Place, which was called Hog Street. This marks a much longer tradition than that linked with Harris’s. Hog Street continued to be marked as such as late as 1886 where it appears on the Ordnance Survey map of that year: but by 1899 Hog Street had been replaced with Castle Street, its current name.”

The week before Wendy Ladd contacted me about the photo of tree planting by Trowbridge Chamber of Commerce. Wendy writes: “Far left is James Ladd and far right is his son Patrick Ladd, who was my husband who sadly passed away two years ago. Patrick was Managing Director of James Ladd and Sons, builders’ merchants in Trowbridge for many years.”

Last week’s photo of Sammy Paradise the rag and bone man reminded Bradley Girl of his horse Sonny. She said it led her to have a life long passion for our four-legged friends.

Onto this week and Marlborough’s Rob Dickens who has provided the images. Firstly, there is a photo Rob in chains being marched through the town to stand trial in 1998 for stealing a net. It was part of the recreation of trials that took place in the 19th century in a piece of living history. The electrician was taken to the cells in the town hall along with his wife Angela, and son Kevin who was sentenced to transportation. Rob said one woman thought it was real and shouted that it was barbaric.

The Polly Tea Rooms in Marlborough is pictured before the fire that destroyed the top part of the buildings but much of the rooms was saved by the fire brigade that included Angela’s dad Jack Bull. Even then Rob said the Polly was very posh with the name coming from Polly Peachum in the 1728 Beggar’s Opera by John Gay.

Another eatery pictured was also a service station. The Ridgeway Café is now long gone. Once the M4 opened it lost trade. Moving to another service station is Rob’s photo of Edwardian Burbage showing Seymour Garage which is now a petrol station.

Finally the photo of Adam and Eve Rocks in Avebury is believed to be from the early 1970s judging by the older girl’s attire with a wide collar and pinafore. The stones were partly buried and lost for centuries but in the 1930s business man and land owner Alexander Keiller re-erected the stones and demolished some of the buildings to create the circles and avenues we see today.