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8 SHAW
LOSE A STONE IN Shaw annual Grand Table Top Sale
Sj. St. George meeting Saturday 27 April 2pm - 4.pm
4 WEEKS AT
MA (Oxon), FCA Holy Trinity Church, Shaw
The Shaw Residents' Association £5per table - advance bookings
will be holding its Annual General
Chartered Meetingon Monday 8 April, 7.45pm only, to Mrs Parker on 881343,
10am - 6pm weekdays.
Accountant in Shaw Community Centre (next to Creche facility, 2-5 years only,
the doctor's surgery).
Specialist in A change of the Association's 40 pence per family
Tuesdays 7pm constitution is being proposed so
financial services
that the quorum at meetings should Nine elms fail
for small business Holy Trinity Church, not be less than twelve people. to survive
Shaw Village Centre Shaw residents who want
11 1A High Street something done about community A long time resident of Shaw is
Wootton Bassett, Swindon, Wilts For more details, phone problems, or have ideas on how to annoyed that nine elm trees planted
Telephone Sheena on 874088 build up community spirit in the to replace the trees of many years
area, are invited to attend the ago have all died.
(0793) 848030 "Caring in Action" meeting. Lii Bint, pictured below, who has
For more information,contact Bob lived on Old Shaw Lane for 25 years
Bauld, chair of the SRA, on 886193. says that more could have been done
to maintain the trees planted by Ideal
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(*4ESSCRETE' houses in Shaw and donated the
The company built one hundred
trees which were unveiled by the

Mayor of Thamesdown in March
DRIVEWAYS 1989 on common land adjacent to
the housing site.
However Lil says that once
planted no maintenance was given.
c Pattern stamped "It's a shame that the trees were
concrete in natural allowed to die. A bit of the past was
being re-introduced into the area
stone colours for but nobody bothered to water them
paths, patios The Link Magazine started 12 years to keep them going. After the first
ago (1979). It first began as a news- hot summer they didn't recover."
& driveways letter. But after a while West Swin- Lii said that she can't remember
don became too big, so they decided the trees at Nine Elms when she
to make a magazine. For four years arrived in Shaw, but according to
The Link has been professionally local historian lrene jay fromPurton,
Wide range of produced. The main object of the the trees were grouped on a triangle
patterns and magazine is to provide the public of land formed by the junction of the
with news about West Swindon. roads leading from Swindon,
colours available Mr Ogle produces it and reports Lydiard and Washpool. She says
Flagstone pattern being on 3-4 of the stories a day! He said they were removed in the early
imprinted into fresh concrete his best was on Katie Quite (who is 1930's after one had toppled over in
at our school) and her fight against high winds killing the occupants of
We lay it, you'll love it cancer. a passing car. The trees had become
Mr Ogle either finds the stories dangerously large and too close to
himself or someone will tell him of the main road.
'Phone for FREE colour brochure NOW any local news. Mr Ogle receives Martin Cobden, head of Thames-
the stories 3 weeks before the next down Council's Landscape Section,
issue. It takes about one month to said that the ground conditions had
0793- 851250 days put together The Link. Once he has to be improved to give new trees a
typed the stories he arranges them chance of surviving in the clay soil.
0793 - 855303 eves on a computer. Then it is taken to be lIe said that the work followed by
printed in Bristol. The whole the plantingof new trees would take
concrete with a difference.' magazine takes 2 hours to print. place next winter.