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FRESHBROOK 1
The Blue Banana Playworkers, pictured here,
have started after school play activities at:
Toothill Community Centre TAKE AWAY
Tuesdays 3.45pm - 5.45pm
Freshbrook Community Centre FRESHBROOK VILLAGE CENTRE 3,
Wednesdays 5pm - 7pm + FRESHBROOK, SWINDON, WILTS.
Fun and Games are guaranteed for any TELEPHONE: 873178 1
youngsters who come along.
Red Cross Kids EXOTIC CHINESE DISHES

DO YOUR CHILDREN KNOW FIRST-AID?
TRADITIONAL FISH & CHIPS
If the answer to be above question is no, then send
them along to the Community Room, Toothill School, 6pm
Tuesdays for the meeting of the British Red Cross Society DELICIOUS HOT SNACKS
(Toothill Unit).
Anyone over the age of 6 years and under the age of
15 years is welcome. LUNCHEON VOUCHERS ACCEPTED
For further details contact Miss C. Ross on 33852 after
6 pm.
PHONE-IN ORDERS WELCOMED
Garden Views

DOES YOUR HEDGE NEED RELAYING BADLY - (OR EVEN
NELL?) 1 -
Just moved into West Swindon? Hedge looking a bit II T J.. 1
unkempt? Learn how to relay it yourself. Thamesdown
Council Arts & Recreation Group is organising hedge laying
work-ins at Shaw this November. The first is planned for
Saturday and Sunday 1st and 2nd November 1-4pm. No charge
Dress warmly, bring gloves. ILi '1;'JI
For more details contact:-
Richard Keating, Landscape Architect, 26161 Ext.3123. or Ian
Drummond, Shaw Resident on 874372.
A ROSE FOR LYDIARD PARK- by Sidney Ball.
One of the most interesting of the St.John ladies is
Johanna of the 17th Century. She was the wife of Sir Walter
St. John, the third Baronet. Johanna was a St. John before
and after her marriage, for she was of the family of the
Bedfordshire St.Johns; she and Sir Walter were distant cousins
Sir Walter and Lady Johanna had a big house at
Battersea, as well as Lydiard Park. They divided their time
between the two mansions. At Lydiard their trusted estate
steward was Thomas Hardyman. When living at Battersea,
Sir Walter and Lady Johanna wrote often to Mr. Hardyman
about the management of the Lydiard Park estate. SWINDO "
In one of her letters to Mr. Hardyman, Lady Johanna
wrote that she was going to send some slips of the Austrian
rose for planting at Lydiard Park. This letter was written GLASS
326 years ago, but it is still possible to buy and plant the . 17^
same species of rose!
Peter Beales, one of the foremost growers of, and OKUS ROAD,
experts on roses, recently published a book called "Classic
Roses". In his book Peter Beales describes the rose as
"Austrian Briar" or "Austrian Yellow" - Rosa foetida. It has SWINDON. ^±:
"large single flowers of rich golden yellow with prominent
stamens produced in early June". Peter Beales also lists this TELSw. 615262 '. ,1"
"old fashioned" or "classic" rose in his catalogue. yt
The Borough of Thamesdown has made an excellent
leisure centre at Lydiard Park, the ancient home of the St. GGF r ^^'a,
John family. How interesting it would be to buy and plant Ifl 1
some Austrian roses there - the same species that Lady .
Johanna St. John ordered to be grown at Lydiard over 300 M►^ OV.w^r^^wrw1 - .- -
years ago!