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Did you know that during the Roman Period Parchment Street was called Pergamene Street meaning...Parchment Street? The Latin word derives from the Ancient Greek city of Pergamon, which was known for its learning, library and production of...parchment.

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Caroline Silvester wrote:

Henry

Biscuit

The Bears of Stonegate

Buttercross

I'm a local musician and teacher - servant to 3 demanding cats - part time crazy dog custodian. New to the writing lark but loving the adventure! Loves travelling, going to the theatre and eating sushi.

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Rachel O'Neill wrote:

Licoricia: A Death in Winchester

Since graduating in Drama, Rachel has had an extensive career in marketing and communications across a range of industries from dance label Gee Street Records to online giant AOL before deciding to try playwriting.

Her work includes Sir Walter's Women, directed by Alice Kornitzer, which received its premiere at The Great Hall in Winchester, September 2018.  Her play about the life of trail-blazer Beatrice Shilling, Tilly and the Spitfires, was performed at the Discovery Centre in 2019. She has had recent success in writing monologues, being short-listed by The Studio, Salisbury (runner-up Best Original Monologue 2020), and as a Finalist for Green Theatre's 'Looking Back Across The Water' competition 2021.

About Licoricia: A Death in Winchester

I became aware of Licoricia when I saw an exhibition on Great Women of Winchester held by Heritage Open Days in 2018. She had a fascinating life and a terrible death. There is increasing interest in her both as a woman who was a successful businesswoman in the Middle Ages when this was a rarity, and as a Jew at a time when then - as now - this carried the danger of abuse and attacks. I am now working on a larger piece about her life intended for live performance next year.

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Helena Fox wrote and performed:

Queen Emma

Helena is an award-winning writer, performer, and drag artist. In 2019, she created and co-wrote the five-star, sell-out Fringe hit 'Rust the Musical'. That year, she also placed 2nd at Man Up! as her drag persona King Hoberon. Her new one-woman play, Tectonic Plates, debuted at The Chelsea Theatre in August. Helena has worked with the likes of Katie Bonna, Kate McAll, and The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. As King Hoberon, she has recently appeared in Stagey Queer Nonsense at The Karaoke Hole and The Great Big Cabaret F*ckabout at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. Her latest collaboration, the new musical Astrid, is playing at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge in November.

www.helenafox.co.uk/@kinghoberon/@hcafox

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Emma Caulton wrote:

This is the secret

Unheard Winchester

Emma Caulton: writer + editor

I am fortunate. For decades I have made my living as a teller of tales. But I don’t create; I relate – stories about people, places, achievements, adversity. I have written for magazines and newspapers, businesses and academia. I have interviewed, researched, evoked, subbed, tweaked, proofed. In short, I am what is referred to as a wordsmith. No more; no less.

However at home I have folders stuffed with the occasional first chapter or unfinished verse. Unpublished. Unread. Probably rightly so.

My involvement in this local initiative was suggested, not sought, and I wonder if it is an opportunity to see if I can still imagine.

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Danae Mathews wrote:

The Wagging Tongue

A year ago, at the age of 56, I applied to Winchester University to study Creative Writing.  I come from a writing family, my mother was a published author and my father a Press Officer for Unilever.  I wanted to carry my mother’s legacy on, but also do something that I enjoyed doing -  after all, isn’t there a book in everyone?

I grew up in Winchester and attended St. Swithun’s girls school, was confirmed in Winchester Cathedral and worked for some years for Lloyds Bank where the infamous clock is that countless people use to check the time.  Even my daughter attended Winchester University and graduated in the cathedral in July of this year.

At the moment I am learning lots of different aspects of writing.  I am not sure which area I shall pursue eventually but I am learning so much and just enjoying the journey I’m on.

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Cecily O'Neill wrote:

Lewd Women and Female Felons

Cecily O’Neill is the artistic director of 2TimeTheatre, a new venture dedicated to re-imagining classic and original texts for performance and publication.

Adaptations for 2TimeTheatre include Meeting Miss Austen, Winchester Festival 2017, and Venus and Adonis, Winchester Festival 2016. Other adaptations include Drinking with Dorothy, Players Theatre New York 2015, and The Golden Apple, Dublin Theatre Festival 2008.    A Fruitful Season: Keats in Winchester,  was staged July 2019 and Pies and Prejudice, based on Jane Austen's writings on food, marriage and more, was presented as part of Winchester Heritage Open Days, 2021.

Cecily is the author of a number of influential books on drama education, including Drama Words (1995). Children’s fiction includes Miss Macdonald had a Zoo (1991) and Tim and the Wolf (1986), both published and broadcast by the BBC.

About Lewd Women

Lewd Women and Female Felons is a play for voices, based on research in the  Hampshire Record Office. If offers a glimpse of the social and financial context  in which women were committed to the County Bridewell in Hyde for the ‘crime’ of giving birth to illegitimate children. Condemned  to hard labour, the harsh conditions led to the death of a number of women and  their babies.

The play  is enlivened by songs and ballads of the period and was staged in St Bartholomew's Church, Hyde, in 2019 and in NSTCity in 2020

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Dave Sinclair wrote:

Encrypted

The Watchers Above

I'm a retired software engineer now studying Creative Writing and English Literature at the OU in a somewhat belated attempt to see if I made the right career choice back in the 70s.  So far the jury is out (and possibly quite bemused by the question).  You can see some of my recent writing efforts at https://davesinclair.org.

As an engineer I have always been fascinated by the mechanics of building structures like Cathedrals and as a long term resident of Winchester it is perhaps not surprising that my contributions to Wordwalk focus on the (non-human) occupants of the Cathedral.

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Miriam Coley wrote:

"Mary and Henry did their courting here circa 1947"

Mary/Henry/1947

Miriam enjoys all kinds of writing.  Often she is inspired by Winchester and other places. Her murder mystery novel Close to the Edge is set here. Currently she is looking for an agent for this.

Other on-going writing includes making her short play Coffee and Cakes, which was performed at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, into a full length play.

Having discovered Mary and Henry she is keen to find out more about them.  All research thus far has drawn a blank!  She has imagined their courtship and life in a short story, which could easily grow into a novel.

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Milly Cheong wrote:

Tracing Footsteps in Winchester:  Part 1 Dad's Office used to be here, Part 2 Purchasing Sweet Treats

Transported

The Hedge Three

It was trying to write song lyrics for GCSE Music around twenty eleven that Milly's love of writing poetry started. After completing a Bachelor's Degree in Drama and taking any odd jobs possible, Milly continued writing and updating a creative blog, 'Cheong's Creativity' and posting vlogs via Youtube. Whatever job Milly is in, she does end up either writing poetry or filming a vlog - even becoming a bit of a book worm.

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Jacqui Burch wrote:

Winchester Soul

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Naomi Abraham wrote:

Beatitude of the Aged

I was working from a very young age in my motherland and here in the UK. Now I am retired and here at St John's, which is lovely. We are cared for but most of us still live alone.  I pray, read and write to fill my time.