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Swindon Wide
Lower Shaw Farm Wilts & Berks Canal Trust
Wednesday 12 June Wiltshire Waterways Festival: 14 to 16 June
1 Oam - 12.30pm or 1 pm - 3pm
Childrens Activities Templar's Firs, Wootton Bassett
To be opened by David Hempleman-Adams
A family run business offering A great family weekend. Boats of all shapes and sizes, music,
great service and very low wandering theatre groups, children's entertainment, Punch and Judy.
prices. If you can find it
cheaper, we will beat that crafts, waterbike and bathtub races, hot air balloons, pony rides, clay
price on the spot. pigeon shooting, mini-cruises on the restored stretch of canal
PART EXCHANGE WELCOME. Exhibitions celebrating 25 years of canal restoration and 209 years
COMPACT CAMERAS Fun on the farm for young children since plans were made to build a canal link between the Kennet &
Examples: and their parents and carers. Follow Avon Canal and the River Thames, as well as looking forward
Olympus Mju 11 ......................... £79.95 the nature trail, feed the hens and to the next twenty years of canal redevelopment.
Olympus Mju Zoom 140 .......... £159.95
collect the eggs, seasonal art and
SINGLE LENS REFLEX To book a trade or craft stall and to enter waterbike and bathtub
Canon EOS 300 with 28/90 .... £239.95 craft work. A snack is provided, you races, call Jan Flanagan on 523048 or Harry Bromley on 344220
are welcome to bring a picnic lunch.
www,wilts-berks-canal.org.uk
Call 771080 to book. £5/family.
Sunday 30 June, 3pm - 6pm
o ^ Canal route creates opportunities
Open Afternoon
An opportunity to see what goes on The Mayor of Swindon David Cox unveiled the new £500,000 Purton
down on the farm. Meet the sheep, Road canal bridge on 10 May.
the hens, the ducks and friends old
Nikon F65 with 28/80 .............. £249.95 and new; see what's in the gardens,
the ponds, and the polytunnel; try the
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Olympus C-1 Zoom 1.3 MP .... £199.95 swing, the storywalks, the snacks.
Fuji Finepix 2800 2.0 MP ........ £349.95
No need to book, free.
MEMORY CARDS
Compact Flash 32mb ................ £19.99
Compact Flash 64mb ................ £34.99 Vintage rally
DEVELOP AND PRINT 24 hour service competitors wanted
Any35mm film 6x4 ..................... £2.99
Any35mm film 5x7 ..................... £4.99 Competitors are invited to attend the
vintage rally organised by Swindon &
Cricklade Railway Society on
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 August.
For an application form which must
be returned by 30 June, call 814403.

The Mayor cuts the ribbon with Tony Davy, chair of the Wilts & Berks
Canal Trust and Henry Smith, chair of the Swindon branch
The project arranged by Swin- three major routes and the Purton
4IILum don Borough Council and paid for Road canal bridge is a key to un-
ate:
by the North Swindon Develop- locking the opportunities that wa-
ment Company as part of the North- terways offer in drawing tourists to
ern Orbital Road/Thamesdown an area."
Drive construction provides a cru- He added that the canal trust is
V
cial link in the route for a restored hoping for a major capital injection
canal between the Kennet and in the next few years and for the
TJk _ Avon to the south and the Thames Kennet and Avon to be linked to
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in the north, sometime in the next the Thames within 12 years.
1 5 to 20 years. The canal bridge incorporates a
Chairman of the Wilts & Berks major cycle/walking route which
Canal Trust said restored canals li nks Coate Water via the Old Town
Superglide. in other parts of Britain were the railway path to Moulden Hill and
source of significant economic Berrimen's Wood, Purton and North
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An artist's
impression of
the canal in
use. Note that
because of the
level of the
canal water,
the boats will
pass through
the tunnel
some five feet
higher than the
adjacent
footpath