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MAKING COMPANY CONNECTIONS
Students at a local secondary or drawn caricatures and there
school will soon know which one are some sculptures and models,"
has won a big prize in an art said Thomas Howard.
competition. Leo Norris, Design Co-ordina-
Management services company tor at Greendown, is keen about
PHH Europe decided to com- the PHH link-up. "I was attracted
memorate their move to West because it was to be a serious
Swindon this month by asking competition. A brief was given
youngsters at Greendown Com- and a real objective set, like in
munity School to produce art- the real world where designers
work related to one of its products have to submit their ideas for
- a card used by company car selection.
drivers to buy everything required "The company was also com-
for the vehicle and have it put all mitted to giving good prizes
on one bill. which was an incentive to produce
Margaret Hockly, 12, described high quality work. It was an ideal
the project. "PHH adopted a opportunity for the designers to
Toucan as a symbol and we were stretch themselves. I'm very
asked to produce artwork about pleased by how the youngsters in
it." the group have responded; there
Looking to the big time. Greendown artists display their competition
"We were taken to the Cots- are some outstanding pieces of entries.
wold Wildlife Park to visit their work."
Toucan," said Maria Home of The entries will be judged this
Grange Park. "His name is 'Orlon month and the work will be dis- to NEAL HEAVENS I •
Wun Bill'." played at the new PHH Centre. AUTO-ELECTRICIAN
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Friday afternoons during the T-shirts, pens and folders and Wiring Harnesses Made & Repaired
autumn in a voluntary extra class the winner will be taken on a Alarms Fitted from £40.00
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NAMES FROM THE PAST

by Nick Digbv
Many of the names now familiar
to us in West Swindon date back
many hundreds of years, and will
have been understood by resi-
dence back as far as Domesday
or beyond. One of the oldest is
Shaw or 'Scaega' as the Saxons
wrote it. Names like Toothill,
Blagrove and Mannington are
probably equally old. Toothill
has not even changes its spelling,
so the medieval village that lay
there would have gone by the
same name. Freshbrook is named
after the stream that runs down
the valley to the River Key. The
other names such as Westlea,
Ramleaze and Middleleaze are
derived from the medieval field
names. The 'lea' or 'leaze' means
pasture or meadow.
Even West Swindon can be
found in records dating back to
the 13th century, but instead of
referripg to the area we know as
West Swindon today, it was
applied to the west half of the
parish of Swindon around the
Kingshill and Okus area. It made
up one of two manors in Swindon
Parish.
While the maps may now look
radically different in terms of
features, the names are the same
as have been used for a thousand
years. You may well find familiar
local names on this map of 1773
even if the spelling is a little
different! Can you follow the line of the 01(1 London to Bristol Road (the old .-142())tro,,, 1/ails Mill (Woollon Bassett
Road) to Marsh Farm (Windmill Hill)? .4lso Old Shan, Road running north ivest, and far Lane going north
from Marsh Farm?