Kathy Davis
Favourite Trowbridge Fact: West of England cloth produced here in Trowbridge, was exported to over 70 countries around the world. At home clients included Savile Row Tailors, M&S, Jaegar and Burberry and trendy London designers such as Mary Quant.
Hannah Randall
Favourite Trowbridge Fact: We don’t have an exact date for Trowbridge Castle being built but the first official records of it it were in 1139 when it was under siege!
Nikki Ritson
Favourite Trowbridge Fact: Trowbridge spinners & weavers were so angry about machines taking their jobs that they staged violent riots… However often the riots were in other towns, to save the disruption to Trowbridge!
Andrea Bartlett
Favourite Trowbridge Fact: That there is a (fabulous) museum inside a shopping centre, housed inside the last woollen cloth mill to close in the town!
David Birks
Favourite Trowbridge Fact: Fore street echoes the line of the castle ditch and the name Fore reflects the medieval houses that fronted onto this old street – history is there for all to see if you know what you are looking at!
Hannah Lyddy
Favourite Trowbridge Fact: Trowbridge was granted one of the earliest Market Charters in England (1200!), which enabled the town to flourish.
