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4 TOOTHILL

RALPH Toothill Community Centre
PALMER Philip Stone Annual General Meeting
Friday 20 July 8.00p.m.
PHARMACY Painter & All residents of Toothill are Invited to attend and find out
3 Deerhurst Way, Decorator what goes on at their community centre
Toothill For a high standard of
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Hours of Opening: available.
Mon - Fri Telephone now for terms work on life during Medieval times came to an end in a
fayre at Toothill School on 23 June. On 13 June five hundred
9a.m. - 1p.m. a FREE estimate children went to Barbary Castle to welcome King John on his
2p.m. - óp.m. Royal Progress through Wiltshire.
Each class took a name of a village, dressed in period
Sat. 9a.m. - 12 noon Tel: Swindon costume and humbly asked the King to pass laws for them.
870515 The two reports below were sent on parchment to The Link.
Telephone: 512063

Toothill Chinese Kitchen

English Food and Fish & Chips
Special Chinese Food
Take-Away Menu

Tel: 487055

Hours of Business

Sunday 6- 11.3Opm

Monday Closed all day
5- 1130pm
Tuesday
Wednesday 12- 145pm 5- 1130pm

Thursday 12- 145pm 5- 1130pm

Friday Who be that unusual character with the strange tool close to his face? The
12 - 1.45pm 5 - 1200am
Saturday 12 - 2.00pm 5 - 12.00am peasants, travellers, serving maids and knights from Toothill School look from
the past into the future.
Rachel Lawrence describes the frolics I had lots of fun at the fayre. I
STORM MANAGEMENT SERVICES atop Barbary Castle think King John will take some
It was quite cold at Barbary Castle notice of the laws.
Storm Technical & Industrial Division and was very windy on top of the
mounds. Jennie Spencer thought King John was
King John did not arrive when in a bad mood when he came to see his
TEMPS • TEMPS • TEMPS he should because something subjects.
happened to a shoe on one of his Our new law that will hopefully be
COME ON DOWN AND horses. Luckily the good people of passed is No evicting people as a
SAY HELLO TO MIKE & JULIE Marlborough had left behind a punishment!' The effect on our
blacksmith to help him. village I think will be tremendous!
Before the King arrived I did I'mlooking forward to the special
U WAREHOUSE OPERATORS some bartering and I got some fayre that the Lord and Lady have
rosemary,a candle and some bread. organised and invited King John to
U FORK LIFT DRIVERS After that I had a drink and a little sign the Wiltshire Charter that all
rest. Because it was so cold Iran to the villages had made up. The part
U LABOURERS the top of the mounds and back I'm looking forward to most is
again. On the way back I fell over dining with KingJohn. I think that
U STORES PEOPLE and rolled on the ground. the Wiltshire Charter was a good
We had to line up facing each idea and my feelings about it are
U H.G.V. 123 other and when the King came we good and strong.
all bowed down. I had never seen On Thursday 14 June 1215 King
U VAN DRIVERS a King before. He had his food John was in a VERY bad mood, so
brought before him and he called he didn't pass our law although he
U EVENING SHIFT WORKERS for a tester. I was glad that I didn't did sign the Wiltshire Charter. King
have to be the food tester. Then the John said "If you all weren't
STORM INTO 1990 WITH S.M.S. King said that the feasting could naughty, you wouldn't get
The Right Choice begin. Everyone cheered and ran punished."
to their lunch.
My favourite part was the
After lunch some people did jousting. Francis Cherryman stood
Office Hours: Mon - Fri 7.30am - 530pm some singing, then the jousting in place of the knight Sir Simon
Sat. 9am - 12 noon began. Our village beat Bassett. Francis got jabbed in the
Winterbourne Bassett. When the eye with the lance (but he was
32 Morley Street, Swindon, Wilts. jousting finished the King signed alright).
Tel: (0793) 480693 our laws, but he didn't sign ours. I had a good day but the weather
Then he left. was COLD!