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Heritage Centre public appeal sees launch ROTTEN WOOD?

of new town marketing theme PEELING PAINT
DRIPPING GUTTERS?
'Swindon, a community built on achievement'
Swindon was singled out as a town of achievers on 28 April when a public appeal for £300,000 was SOLUTION
launched to complete the state-of-the-art railway Heritage Centre based around the GWR works.
Maintenance free
Funded by a £11 million grant A series of awareness raising and
from the National Lottery Herit- fundraising events are being UPVC fascia boards
age Fund, reconstruction and planned over the next two years, cladding & guttering
transformation of 20 Shop at including a £60 a head appeal din- Expertly fitted at DIY prices
Churchward into a new museum ner on 23 June where Millennium
starts in the summer. Dome minister Peter Mandelson FREE SURVEY
Famous locomotives, carriages will be the guest speaker. NO DEPOSIT
and railway artifacts will be on Building on an earlier town
display, alongside reconstructions marketing slogan 'Proud tobe Swin- Work it out for yourself
of several railway workshops, sta- don,' councillor Bates announced 20' fascia board fitted £ 50
tion buildings and multi-media a new theme, 'Swindon, a commu- 20' fascia & gutter fitted £115
presentations. nity built on achievement.' She said 20' fascia, soffit & gutter £175
The centre is due to be con- it sums up "the courage, achieve- 20' fascia & soffit £110
pleted in summer 2000 and will ment and spirit of community dem- (prices correct at time of publication)
become a major regional tourist onstrated by our forebears - exact-
attraction to compliment the adja- ing standards which we aspire to
cent Great Western Designer Vil- Major donation at the launch: Chair today." THE
lage and the National Monuments of the Heritage Centre trustees Brian
Record Centre. Find out more about
Barrett, chief executive of Virgin Rail the Heritage Centre IF huN
and Swindon councillor Sue Bates and the appeal
receive a donation for £12,000 from between 18 and 21 June CREW
James Alexander, head of external re- when Swindon's past and
lations at Burmah present achievement will be
wages. It's important to remem- on show at a fair near the For a free quote
ber the hard work put in to build Great Western Designer Village Tel: 827494
the railways and the sacrifices Local companies will be
made by the workers and their showing off their products anytime
families." alongside fun attractions.
Around three quarters of the
Heritage Centre funding is being
met by a Heritage Lottery Grant.
Most of the balance is being do-
nated by the three core partners
involved in the project - Tarmac,
BAA McArthur Glen and Swin- TAKE
don Borough Council.
The last £300,000 has to be found 1
Enthusiastic supporter of the Hërit- from the Swindon community to W01
age Centre project, ex-railway man cover the cost of fitting out an on- 1 1
Dave Ellis beside a coach displaying site classroom, a schools' exhibi-
the GWR badge tion gallery and lunch room and
the setting up of an oral history
Heritage Centre trustee Swin- project. A lift for the disabled and
don councillor Sue Bates said the a sound stick system for the pro-
project will remind the world that foundly deaf is also required. Collect any
the secret of modern Swindon's medium or large
success lies in its strong sense of Heritage Centre appeal coordinator pizza and get
Jay Radway has the task of raising
community and its tradition of a SECOND one
achievement. "Swindon today is a £300,000 from Swindon sources HALF PRICE
place which has successfully trans-
formed itself from a single indus- Available any time
try railway town to a base for hun- Collection only
dreds of leading companies from a
wide range of prospering indus-
tries. Our Heritage Centre will Collect any medium or large pizza Pizza Hut
and get a SECOND pizza up to the
focus on the human aspect of a ante value HAL!' PRXE
hard industry." Shaw Ridge
Also speaking at the launch, ex- '2 30J,m,1998 3¼,24fl I,,,, S.indc.t Leisure Park
railway workers union ASLEF gen-
eral secretary Lew Adams said Whitehill Way
people should not to be carried Swindon
away by the romance of railway Tel: (01793) 876212
engines and buildings. "If herit-
age is about anything at all, it is €tLSt(O4flh12flW
about people. The union was
formed in Swindon because the
bosses were intent on reducing