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SHAW

GOVERNORS' SHAW CHURCH WELL ATTENDED EXHIBITION
HARVEST FESTIVAL By Lin Davies Vice-Chair, Shaw Res. Assoc.
COMMENT AUCTION
Following a recent Governor's by Debbie Griffiths Shaw Residents Association held West Swindon to Lydiard Milli-
a very well attended exhibitions cent and Purton, avoiding
meeting at the new Brook Field Going, going, gone! Sold - to in Shaw Church at the end of Cartwright Drive. Mention was
Primary School, where the con- the tune of £112. That's what September. Between 400 and 500 made of the need for early pro-
cern expressed by parents on the we auctioned our Harvest Fes- people attended. vision of street lighting and the
possibility of future 'mobile' tival gifts for. Not exactly com- The exhibition showed plans completion of the grid road
classrooms was discussed, a letter petitive prices, but what com- and models concerned with the system, particularly the link from
has been sent to Whiltshire petitive bidding. There was nail growing village of Shaw courtesy Sparcells to Moreden, avoiding
County Council's Chief Educa- biting tension as the price of an of Thamesdown Borough Coun- Common Platt and Washpool.
tion Officer, requesting that the apple pie soared to £2 whilst cil Planning and Technical These matters, and others, can
school planned for Roughmoor cooking apples were in big Services Department, and photo- be discussed at the next Shaw
be brought forward one year in demand at £1 a bag. Our guest graphs old and new from Roger Residents Association meeting
the Capital Budget. Develop- auctioneer kept the interest Ogle's private collection. on 10th November at 7.30 p.m.
ment of housing is already well going all evening as he waded The comment sheet available in Shaw Church. Residents from
under way in that area and there through jams, pies and vege- to those who attended showed an the Association's area, which in-
is considerable worry that unless tables. The money raised went to emphatic need for a local Post cludes Shaw, Nine Elms, Middle-
the school opens before Septem- the Jubilee Gardens Horticultural Office, public telephone boxes, leaze, Ramleaze, Common Platt
ber 1990, many children will Therapy Centre for handicapped better pedestrian walkways and and Washpool are all invited.
have a long and hazardous walk children and adults in Purton. advance road signposting to solve Just turn up.
to attend classes, not to mention The centre needs wheel- the mysteries of getting from
possible overcrowding at Brook barrows and gardening equip-
Field. Governors and Teachers ment. It's a nice thought that the
agree that 300 pupils in a Primary gifts from God have gone full
School ought to be the maximum êircle - fruit & veg, to auction,
in order that all pupils become to money, to wheelbarrows, to
known to the Head Teacher fruit & veg.
Concern was also expressed in
the letter, that no plans exist for NEW TO SHAW
another secondary school in the Come along to a coffee morning
Western Expansion. Once house for anybody who wants to meet a
building is completed in a few neighbour on Thursdays 12th.
years, it could mean that over 19th & 26th November in the
2,000 pupils a day will have to be temporary community centre,
bussed out of the area to take a the yellow building behind the
place wherever one can be found. shops, on Ramleaze Drive.
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