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No. 113 August 1991 Circulation 10,500 96 - 99 Manchester Road Swindon
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Rescue planned to prevent W. Swindon market closure
A rescue package is being put together to keep months operating licence had come to an end for the market contract was advertised.
the open air market going in the Link Centre and confirmed that Wendy Fair was being ap- The mini-bus service for the housebound will
coach park, thirteen months after it was launched. proached to run the market until the new tender continue as a condition of any future contract.
Tuesday 30 July was its last day under the
terms of the licence held by the present opera- Your help wanted for Green Map
tors and desperate efforts are being made to
ensure that there is no break in service. The Link magazine promised a 'green map' of up the various parts of West Swindon are.
The market has been poorly supported by WestSwindon last year,butit never came about. This wifibe the first time this kind of map has
traders and customers for months due to the We're having another go and we need your help. been attempted in Swindon, so we need your
recession and lack of promotion, but Toothill The idea is to print the street map of the area help - the people who actually do the walking
ward councillor Ricky Midwinter has been in grey and overprint the green open spaces, and cycling at present.
working to keep it going. "1 was very disap- cycle/footways and locationof recycling points. Local councillor Bob Pixton, chair of
pointed when I heard that the traders had been We will also publish information about ways to Thamesdown's Environmental Forum, is coor-
given notice. I'm in touch with Wendy Fair recycle other materials in the town, i.e. oil, fur- dinating the information to go on the map. He
Markets and am hopeful they will run it from niture, old fridges etc. knows many of the foot/cycle routes, but not
next week I'm very keen to see the market The map will have limited value if you're all. If you can suggest a route that should be
continue and develop at the weekends." trying to find your way round in a car, but if included, give him a call on 695317. Or you can
A spokesman for Thamesdown Council's you're out for a walk or a bike ride, it will show send him a sketch map at 12 Lambert Close,
Estates Department said the initial twelve how much greenery there is and how well linked Freshbrook Closing date 20 August.

A taste of Victorian times
Children from Salt Way School,
Shaw donned Victorian costume
on 11 July and attended the wed-
ding of two of their classmates at St
Mary's Church, Lydiard Park
The wedding, conducted by lo-
cal vicarandchairofgovernorRev
Keith Boxall, was the cuhnination
of a study topic on RuralLife in the
Lydiards during Victorian times.
The fifty eight to eleven year
olds adopted the names of people
on the parish register at the turn of
the century. Farm workers, game
keepers, milk maids and local
dignatories attended the
reenactment of the 1901 wedding
of maidservant Maud Mary Twine
and James Henry Embling, the
farmer from nearby Wick Farm,
played by Fiona Talbot and
Andrew Quinn.
The ceremony was followed by
a parade, a picnic of Victorian food
and traditional games and enter-
tainment on the lawn with mem-
bers of staff and parent suitably
dressed for the occasion.

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