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4 TOOTH ILL
RALPH Circus acts entertain Circus came to Toothill School

PALMER when the fourth years performed
for other children and parents in
PHARMACY the annual leavers production of
Barnum.
3 Deerhurst Way Singing, dancing, and circus acts
Toothill played to packed audiences, with
all 60 departing youngsters hay-
Hours of Opening: ing a part in the musical written
Mon - Fri and directed by teachers Penny
9a.m. - 1p.m. Purvis and Sue Tinker.
230pm, - óp.m. Mini Market Toothill Church
Saturday 14 September
12.30pm w Ent lop
Sat. 9a.m. - 12 noon ldam .
Jumble, Crafts, Cake Stalls
Telephone: 512063 Proceeds towards
Church Hall Fund

Toothill Chinese Kitchen Historical detective work

English Food and Fish & Chips A class of eight and nine year old whose family moved out of Snap
children at ToothillSchool have spent at the end of the last century, vis-
Special Chinese Food TakeAway Menu the summer term making a fascinat- ited the classroom. He said the
ing study of the village of Snap, near children's work was incredible.
c.
Tel: 487055 Aldbourne, south east of Swindon. "We have a bible fromSnap Chapel
The work has been all the more dated 1812 and the family has al-
Hours of Business interestingbecauseSnap disappeared ways known about Snap, but the
Sunday 6 -1130am just 70 years ago. All that is left is a children have filled in a lot of the
Monday Closed all day wooded hillside which covers up the details unbeknown to us."
Tuesday 5 -11.3Opm rubble and foundations of cottages AnothervisitorwasJohn Fisher,
Wednesday 12 - 145pm 5- 1130pm occupied by people who gradually great grandson of Rachel Fisher,
Thursday 12 - 145pm 5- 1130pm moved between 1896 and 1914. the last person to live in Snap, who
Friday Why the people moved out is not visited the site with the children.
5 - 1200am
12-1.45pm
Saturday 12 - 200pm 5 - 1200am clear, but agricultural recession and "They have gone into so much
OPEN ALL BANK HOLIDAYS (MONDAY) the attractions of work in Swindon detail. It took a long time to read
are the likely causes. all of it, so the amount of work
The project was conceived by class bringing it together for display
teacher Brian Gardner and Toothill must been huge.
SHAW VETERINARY School headteacher Richard Jackson Brian Gardner said the children
and involved children visiting the had got a great deal of excitement
site on several occasions, taking doz- and pleasure out of their study.
CENTRE ens of photographs, illustrating and "Kenneth Watts' book looked at
writing down a huge amount of in- the history of the village but by
formation. They also collected a large following up the descendents of
SHAW VILLAGE CENTRE quantity of artifacts which had to be the residents, the children have
sorted, classified and thought about. unearthed a great deal of original
RAMLEAZE DRIVE, SHAW Many people were contacted for information."
information about the village includ- To commemorate the last resi-
ing Kenneth Watts, author of an dents, the present landowner has
Consultations by Appointment award winning book on the village agreed to allow Toothill School to
Mon to Fri 8.30am - 6.00pm and relations of people who lived erect an engraved stone as a per-
there. manent memorial to the villagers
8.00pm -1 0.00pm
Ken Ponting from Cirencester, said Mr Gardner.
Sat 9.00am - 1 2.3Opm Children from Mr Gardner's class show off the large model of Snap to John Fisher
. and Ken Ponting whilst being filmed for Central TV
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