Page 17 - link magazine

A MIDSUMMER

FAMILYPICNIC

Sunday 21st June, 12 noon --4 .m.

Come on an adventure to the Blagrove Copse Park
bring a picnic and make it a West Swindon community

get-together.

Refreshment tent organised by 1st Westlea Scouts and Cubs

Link Centre Inflatable and Lincoln The Bear
altisej
CS O1,
Bring Footballs, Frisbees, Rounders Bats and Balls G'"
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Children - come in fancy dress and win a prize -
the theme is nature (e.g. birds, bees, animals, flowers etc.) - Judginf at .00 p.m.
(Wheelchairs and Prams - please use Bodiam Drive Gate which will be open.)
* * * SEE YOU THERE * * *

Allotments at
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FSTP-ATFORD Some long awaited allotments
will soon be available in West
Swindon at the western end of
the Blagrove Copse open site,
To,thII ," Mannington close to the Water Research
VIIg.
Centre building.
Altogether some fifty plots will
be available but they will only be
•&.4 ' developed as demand shows it-
a self. A call by Thamesdown
RIPPLEMLO
Council's Arts and Recreation
ICE Department for people wanting
to have an allotment, through
the pages of The Link (in January
1987), produced considerable
interest.
During the summer the allot-
--/
picnic ment site will be drained, fenced
and a waterpoint installed ready
area .. for the autumn planting season.
/ - If uptake of the plots is good,
more will be cultivated and
offered for hire.
West Swindon residents inter-
ested in developing an allotment
should write to the Director of
Arts and Recreation, Thames-
• down Borough Council, Civic
Offices, Swindon.