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HOMECARE

i IMPROVEMENTS Easter at

Tooth i I I Church
A local comprehensive Home Improvement
1
1 We can supply and install a wide range 1 Good Friday 17th April
Service to Home Owners.
10.30 am Family Service
1 3.00 pm Liturgy of the Passion (RC)
of top quality products including: 6.30 pm Stations of the Cross
- Building extensions, garages, porches 1 Easter Day
1 - Replacement windows 8, doors in 1
Aluminium, uPVC or wood 9.30 am RC Moss Communion
; 10.45 am Family C
1 - Secondary Double Glazing
5.00 pm RC Mass
Cavity wall Insulation
6.30 pm Evening Worship
e - Loft Insulation
- Central Heating Installations 1 The cantata "The Cross of Christ" will be
Dry Rot, Woodworm & Damp Proof , sung at 7.30 pm:
Treatment
At Toothill Church, on Wed 15th April
- Electrical & Plumbing Installations
At Lydiard Tregoze, on Good Friday
All at realistic prices - for further On Holy Saturday, there are occasions for
information or a FREE estimate, ` confession, and an Easter Vigil in the evening.
telephone Swindon 485098.
FRESHBROO K SCHOOL
HOMECARE IMPROVEMENTS, 44 Bodiam Drive, parents who would like their children (5 - 9
Swindon, SN5 8BE.
yrs. old) to attend Freshbrook School are
invited to contact the new headmistress, Mrs.
Barker at Toothill School, Tel. 47250.

Carrefour is Coming:

Carrefour are coming and we who live in Toothill, Freshbrook and Westlea are the lucky ones with their
Superstore on the doorstep. At a recent meeting with members of the Toothill Residents' Organisation, Freshbrook Village
Group and Westlea Residents' Organisation, a representative of Linfood/Carrefour explained what we are likely to see at the West
Swindon Centre development. Here's a report.
Firstly, Carrefour is not French, it is a British company owned by Linfood who also operate and supply other
stores around the country. For comparison's sake, our superstore will be about twice as large as Sainsbury's in Swindon, but only
half the size of the Carrefour Hypermarket in Bristol - 43,000 square feet with 27 check-outs.
The superstore will sell every kind of foodstuff you will need. It will have its own bakery producing 20,000
loaves of 16 different kinds per week plus a patisserie; fish will come straight from the nearest port; the vegetables will be
the freshest possible and the meat will be processed in a butcher's shop in the store itself. Carrefour pride themselves on
selling nearly 100 types of cheese and they recently won an award from Harrods for it. In the dry grocery sections, some 2,500
different lines will be available; 200 wines will be stocked and a range of health foods will be available. You will also be
able to purchase DIY and household goods along with toys, stationery, records, clothing and shoes.
The-main store will look out onto an air-conditioned covered mall which will also have 13 smaller shop units -
a newsagent., a shoe shop, clothing shops and others still to he finalised. On an upper level will be a restaurant seating
312 people at one time, with access for the disabled via a lift, and a roof garden.
Outside the superstore will be many other facilities - a bank, building society office, children's play areas,
public toilets, two pubs, landscaped gardens, a petrol filling station and a garden centre. A number of craft homes are to be
built to allow crafts people to make their wares in workshops, sell them and live on the premises.
There will he 1,000 car parking spaces near the superstore and car/lorry drivers will be well directed to them,
away from the nearby residential areas. Pedestrians will have well-lit footpaths to follow and bus routes will pass close to the
store.

Carrefour pricing philosophy is based on selling brand leaders and discounting everything so that there is high
turnover and low profit margins. They claim to be 1496 cheaper than the BBC Shopping Basket and about 5% cheaper on average than
Sainsbury's or Tesco's.
The superstore will be open between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday; 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Friday;
9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Saturday; closed Sunday and Monday. The Garden Centre will be open on Sundays but the petrol filling station
will be closed.
The West Swindon Centre development is going to provide a large number of jobs, many part-time. In all, some
320 people will be employed in the superstore itself, another 100 in the smaller shop units in the mall and quite a number in the
outside retail and non-retail outlets. Carrefour anticipate that most of their employees will come from Toothill, Freshbrook and
Westlea.
When is all this going to happen ? Well, believe it or not, opening day for the superstore and a large number of
the other units mentioned above is October 27th this year. Carrefour will be using The Link as their link with you, their
customers. Watch this space for more information.