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TOOTHILL
Same Day Local West's first playgroup to close
HANDMADE FIREPLACES
Plumbing Services The lack of pre-school children in and advertising places in The Link,
We offer:
A free design service • House water problems and Toothill is forcing a playgroup to we are just not getting new chil-
Choice of brick or stone central heating close - the first tobe formed in West dren to join. The playgroup is
Traditional or Modern • Washing machines installed Swindon and the first to shut down entirely self-financing and man-
aged by volunteers; we don't have
TV Shelves and Video Units • Power showers installed because of a drop in numbers.
Tel: (07:3 535291 The Toothill Tots group which the funds to keep going."
• Bathroom installations meets at Toothill Community Cen- Janet, supervisor for 12 years,
• Dripping taps and leaks tre, will lose 12 children to school said she was sad that the group
• Burst pipes, etc. at the end of term, leaving only was closing. Toothill Tots was
• Dishwashers five or six children in each session. formed in 1977 in a hut that served
_%__s• ..-- • Outside taps Playgroup supervisor Janet as a social hall and moved to the
%.5 i: A&M Services Freeguard said the management community centre when it opened
committee had decided to close in 1984.
24 hour response after a long struggle to survive. She thought that fewer people
Li Tel: 874240 "We were doing really well last were moving house and the chil-
S(our dispi year, but after putting up posters dren in the area were growing up.

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HOOVER • HOTPOINT
Pictured with Mark Eynon from Allied Dunbar Staff Charity,front,from left,
SPECIALIST Sarah Reynolds, Tina Lewington, Bev Sainsbury, Denise Egan. Rear, Marie
PFS J. PHILLIPS Woodward, Deirdre O'Connell, Andrea Nevitt
SECURITY SERVICING Volunteers at Toothill School dren learn to read and write.
Toothill School headteacher
working to build a library of story
SYSTEMS sacks have received major backing Richard Jackson said fifteen par-
Repairs to most makes of from staff at Allied Dunbar. ent volunteers had been meeting
INSTALLATION & Washing Machines, Dryers, The staff charity made a grant of weekly to make items for the sacks
MAINTENANCE OF Dishwashers, Microwaves £2,000 in early July so that materi- and to discuss ideas for new ones.
and Vacuum Cleaners als can be bought for the sacks. Ten sacks had been made since the
INTRUDER-FIRE
Hoover Trained The money will also pay for sup- beginning of the year, but they
ALARM SYSTEMS Local Engineer port from a Swindon College mem- need a stock of forty in the library
74 Victoria Road, Swindon All work guaranteed ber of staff who will run work- before it can be opened.
New parents, grandparents or
shops for the volunteers.
No VAT to pay
Tel: (01793) 642792 Using the ideas pioneered at friends of the school are always
Tel: 526656 or 827804 Westlea School and now being de- welcome to join the working group
NACOSS Approved Installer Intruder Alarms
velopedat six other schools in on a Wednesday afternoon. Any-
Swindon, each story sack contains body with ideas, sewing skills and
play items and games based on a time, or interested in helping out
book which will be used by par- in any way, should contact Mr
ents who want to help their chil- Jackson at the school.
All your shopping needs under Company helps school grounds
one roof at Swindon Market Keen gardener Denise Cottee, a
(formerly Greeenbridge Market)To SwMon team manager at PHH Vehicle
at Faraday Road, Dorcan Management Services, visited
Toothill School on 5 July to help
Open every: Large car boot children plant up the PHH garden
Wednesday sale on Sundays outside one of the classrooms.
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Saturday. Sunday Large free car The company donated £100 to
park
9am - 4pm buy red, white and blue shrubs
which were planted in topsoil paid
ENDY FAIR for by English Nature.
MARKErS
Denise Cottee gets a little help from
Wendy Fair Markets, The Old Workhouse, Ducks Hill Road, Ruislip, Middlesex Rebecca Norcross, Kay Davis and
Telephone: 01895 - 675558, Fax: 01895 -621042 Robert Gray