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The Link Magaz ne • September 1996 39
Freshbrook
Local Lives SWINDON Evangelical
FAMILY CHURCH
Church
Farm of childhood memories Live with integrity Worsley Road
Love wholeheartedly
The July Link magazine featured Wick Farm at The Prinnels, Shaw Trust God in all things Will give YOU a warm
which is has been renovated into three properties and is now being sold welcome
for a combined total of £425,000. SUNDAYS AT THE
LINK CENTRE Sunday I Qam Family Praise
A group of West Swindon Christians wanted to convert the farm into (Community Suite) with children's Covenanter
a community support centre but their bid for the property was turned 10.30am & ?.00pm Movement & creche
down by Thamesdown Council. This month we talk to Joan Rummings 630pm Evening Worship and
from Lydiard Tregoz who spent her teenage years in the farmhouse. All ages of children & teens cared for Communion
Information: Call Brian For details of mid-week
at the Church Office: 849731 meetings, house groups and
in association with other activities, telephone the
NEW FRONTIERS INTERNATIONAL Church Office, Tel: 873050

.-LOCAL CHURCHES

All Saints'Lydiard Millicent - 10:30am Revd Peter Knight
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772417 (for the Village and Roughmoor)
St Mary's Lydiard Tregoze - 9:00 & 10:30am Revd Rob Buries
870244 (for Freshbrook, Grange Park & Hook) '
Holy Trinity Shaw - 10:30am Revd Andrew Hetherington 770568
(the Church is at Shaw Village Centre)
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Toothill Church - 10:45am Revd George Gibson 692620
(meeting in the Community Centre during rebuilding)
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Westlea Church - 10:00am Revd Peter Walker 872932
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Joan in front of Wick Farm at The Prinnells (this Church meets in Westlea School Hall, Langstone Way)
Although the present Wick Farm Joan met her future husband The Parish of West Swindon and the Lydiards
was built in the mid-17th Century, George at the St Mary's Church Baptist . Church of England . Methodist • United Reformed Church
the Anglo Saxon name denotes a youth fellowship. They married
dairy farm which stood on the site in 1954 and she moved to Park
from 800AD. Farm, less than a mile away, on the
other side of Lydiard Park. She
When Joan arrived at the age of 14 still lives in the same house, Green- Carpet Cleaning
in 1940 the farm stood on its own, down View, overlooking the field
surrounded by fields. Her father with that name. by your local
had moved from South Marston to
a bigger farm. The closest neigh- Her brother Peter Cove continued professional
bours were Canon Rev. Willets to live at Wick Farm until the early
who lived in the now demolished 1980s when he retired from farm- Satisfaction
rectory where Tregoze School is ing and Thamesdown Council
now, and the tenant farmers at started to plan the development of guaranteed by
Brook House Farm. The Prinnells. For five years, the
farm was the base for the
Soon after the family moved in the Thamesdown Archaeology Unit, 1RA CLE4Ik
army set up huts in front of the which investigated finds at build-
farmhouse, for soldiers operating ing sites across West Swindon.
three big searchlights on the open Fully trained
space at the end of Shaw Ridge. Looking around the old farmhouse Alan Trask of Ultra Clean & insured operators
The lights served the anti-aircraft in July, just before the builders
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to where Oliver Tomkins School is by the refurbishment. The origi- Protects against spills and dirt
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served. A new kitchen has been smelling fresh For Asthma & Allergy sufferers
Joan and her sister Dorothy ran installed, but the original Rayburn
their own little poultry business in cooker has been left in place. DISCOUNTED PRICES AVAILABLE
the field behind the house and were PLEASE PHONE FOR DETAILS
kept very busy in the weeks before "It looks nicely done on the inside,
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