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The Company Company the Swindon
West Swindon can be a pretty according to two ladies who have
unfriendly and soulless place if started The Company Company. CofflOany
you are on your own. Swindon Liz Walton and Rosemarie
as a town has very few places Watson run the 'Carriages At
where people can meet on a so- Three' ball gown hire service in corniany
cial basis. Victoria Road. They launched
After all not everybody wants The Company Company in No-
to take an evening class and you vember after many of their clients
need somebody elseto play bad- had said how they would like to Wiltshire's brightest Introduction
minton or squash with. And if meet other people of a like mind. Agency and Social Register
you are a bit older, you may feel "When you think about it,
self-conscious walking into a Swindon has so few places for Telephone Rosemarie or Elizabeth
yuppie bar or pub alone. Any- people to meet others," says Liz. on 487761 or 790927
way, for women, its just not done Perhaps you don't want to social-
without giving some people the ise with others from the office, or
wrong idea. You might not want to go where 4
The idea of lonely hearts may everybody is much younger.
raise a snigger with some people, "We're pretty sure that in West Over 1,000 Cycles usually in stock
but its surprising how many Swindon there are many people Massive range of
people feel lonely and have tried who have moved to the area
an introduction agency for help without knowing a soul, or per- Mountain Bikes
haps they have separated from a now available
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Publisher/Editor: the chance." EXPRESS CYCLE SPECIALISTS
Roger Ogle Liz and Rosemarie definitely 96/99 Manchester Road.
dApple Macintosh design, do not want The Company Tel: Swindon 34907
layout & lasersetting Company to be seen as yet an-
by IMacOgle. other dating agency, or worse still
Printed by Western Webb, a marriage bureau. "We want to
Bristol. get over the idea of a Social Reg-
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