I have been searching on my bookshelves for a little early 20th-century booklet about Trowbridge with no luck, so far, though I know that it must be there. In my search I have turned up another Wiltshire booklet, which I bought at a PBFA book fair in Bradford-on-Avon some years ago. This is a little booklet on Bradford & Melksham Rural District published just under half a century ago. (A bookseller's note attached to the first page indicates a publishing date of 1951-1952 and that the booklet is scarce.) There are 16 black-and-white photographs, which include subjects such as the Manor House and Church, Great Chalfield, The Old Manor, Broughton Gifford, The Courts, Holt, The Old Ham Tree Inn, Holt, South Wraxall Church, South Wraxall Manor, The entrance to Westwood Manor House, Westwood Church, Wingfield and Winsley, Conkwell. A folding map at the back shows the area covered by The Bradford & Melksham District guide. What is interesting about a guidebook such as this is that there are a number of advertisements for local businesses. There is also local information about banks, railways, buses, domestic services, local newspapers, places of worship, cinemas, clubs, schools, sport and markets. A page with 'Some Useful Addresses' is at the back. Reading through this little booklet has whetted my appetite for a return visit to this area. It's been some years since I last visited the National Trust properties of Great Chalfield Manor, Westwood Manor and The Courts Garden so I look forward to visiting them in the spring, when the properties are open. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com