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Name for new multi-million pound heritage centre
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Work on Swindon's Lilmillion Railway Heritage Centre starts next month with completion scheduled
for Spring 2000. We have two large
Located in part of the original the machinery built in Swindon barns full of top
GWR workshops, begun in 1841, and the huge numbers of people Mechanics Institute for sale quality furnishing
adjacent to the main railway line, who worked 'inside' the GWR What's to happen to another ma- fabrics (often more LOOSE
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the centre will be a major focus for works. jor, but derelict, feature of the than 50 metres) which
millennium celebrations. Displays will feature educa- town's heritage. The New Me- are the ends of ranges.
Funded by an £8 million Herit- tional exhibits, audio-visual chanics Institute Preservation Also wallpapers. All are from
age Lottery Fund grant, £1 million shows, computer graphics and Trust holds a meeting about next
leading manufacturers at greatly
from Swindon Borough Council, multimedia presentations, along- steps. Seepage 5. reduced prices.
and the rest from local business, side locomotives, such as the huge
'Steam - The Museum of the Great King George V, and rolling stock. Who was the first railway Why not come and see us?
Western Railway' will transcend To be found next to the Great workers doctor? Sue Cutcliffe. Giles Green,
conventional ideas of a museum. Western Designer Village, the her- Link reader Sheila Povey disputes Brinkworth, Nr Chippenham.
Visitors will be offered interac- itage centre will quickly become an article in the October magazine Tel: 01666 510685
tive, hands-on, state-of-the-art at- one of the major tourist attractions on page 42. Open Monday - Saturday 9am - 1pm
tractions which will celebrate both of its kind in the country.
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