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10 FREE PLACES Drop in for coffee at cafe in community centre
EACH NIGHT!! The cafe at Toothill Community
Centre is becoming a regular so-
Introduction to cial spot to meet friends during
the week.
line dancing
The cafe is open on Thursdays,
Freshbrook lOam to 12 noon, when coffee, tea
Community and biscuits are available at rea-
Centre sonable prices. Children are wel-
Tuesdays 10 November come.
The ladies pictured used to meet
to 8 December, weekly at the Asda restaurant but
7.30pm to 1000pm
now get together in the centre. "The
For details call 764732 (then 4441) tea is hotter and the pot is bigger,"
£3 or F1.75 said Mary Pignatelli.
10 free places each night for Volunteers are needed so that
use the following week the cafe can open on more morn-
ings. Drop in and talk to centre co-
ordinator Annette Kennedy.

Community worker Pam Pixton and centre coordinator Annette Kennedy
Dr Peter Swinyard serve Linda Helali, Sue Hull, Mary King and Mary Pignatelli

& Dr Robert Forrester GP gets ready to build
of the Phoenix Surgery Toothill based doctor Peter
are delighted to announce Swinyard is looking forward to
moving his practice to a purpose
that their new surgery built surgery in April next year.
Planning permission to build
will shortly be built in Toothill. was granted for the empty site at
Toothill Village Centre and build-
New patients welcome. ers should be on site in January.
Dr Swinyard, who first opened
All enquiries: 433211 a temporary surgery in November
1995, said, "we are delighted to
Phoenix Surgery, Deerhurst Way, Toothill Village Centre
provide an excellent new medical
facility for the people of Toothill
and surrounding areas. We will
be doing all we can to retain the
Comfortable cosy house atmosphere we pres- Dr Swinyard digs in with new
ently have at Deerhurst Way."
partner Dr Robert Forrester
independence Railroad layout impresses Euro eyes

Model railway enthusiast Geoff Bishop, from Toothill, was one of
four British exhibitors invited to Europe's largest model railway
exhibition held during October in Utrecht, Holland.
The annual four day exhibition attracts over 40,000 visitors and this
year there were sixty railway layouts and 500 traders
Geoff discovered his passion for model railways over 14 years ago
when, following his wife's death, he spent time with friends in Phila-
delphia. He became fascinated by American railways and has returned
regularly since then, collecting models on his travels as well as buying
from dealers in the UK.
The 35ft layout Geoff took to Holland depicts Union City, Nebraska,
a typical mid-western switching yard. Even with the help of three
supporters, it takes him two hours to set up.
Of his hobby Geoff says, "it creates your own little world. Like an
For your retirement living, we have vacancies artist, you make a picture, but a moving picture."
in Swindon, Reading and Goring. Geoff Bishop, centre, and his Union City layout with fellow modellers
at the Purton Carnival earlier in the year
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