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Venues Family events and children's activities Theatre

The National Monuments Record Sunday 1st to Sunday 20 October Friday 11th, 7.30pm
Centre Kemble Drive. Tel: 414600 The Shape of Things to Come. Use Here and Now. The Sermon on the
The Science Museum Wroughton your imagination to design a nevi _hoW o Mount dramatised is an entertaining
Wroughton Airfield. Tel: 814466 tree or shrub. Entry details from the and humorous production. £10.
STEAM - Museum of the rangers. Lydiard Park, tel: 771419 Wyvern
Great Western Railway Thursday 3rd, 12.30pm & 3pm 47
Kemble Drive. Tel: 466655 The Izzy Wizzy Tour. Sooty is Tours & talks
Swindon Museum & Art Gallery coming to town with a brand new fun Thursday 3rd, 7pm
Bath Road. Tel: 466556 packed show. £6.50. Wyvern Sooty at the Wyvern on 3 October Take the 'A' Train with Tim Bryan. A
Town Hall Studios Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th look at how the railroad influenced
Regent Circus. Tel: 463210 Careless talk costs lives... 62 years Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th, generations of blues. jazz and swing
ago this week the Blitz was raging 10am - 4pm musicians, celebrating Black History
The Wyvern Theatre
over London. Become an evacuee Science Museum Wroughton. Month. £2.50. STEAM
Theatre Square. Tel: 524481
for the day and join STEAM's air raid Marvel at the vast array of unique
Confirm date, time and price with Wednesday 9th, 7.30pm
warden and secret agents on the trail and incredible objects from the
the venue Swindon Society talk - The
of spies, missing secret plans and an furthest reaches of the national Archaeology of Swindon Hill by
unexploded bomb hidden in the collections, tractor and stationary Roy Canham. £1.50. Broad Green
museum. Normal admission charges. engine demonstrations, family
Swindon & STEAM events, model aircraft displays. free Community Centre, Salisbury Street.
Call 521408 for details
Cricklade Railway Saturdays 5th, 19th vintage bus service from STEAM Thursday 10th, 7pm
Meet the Railway Workers. Join museum. Free admission
William Stanier, a talk by John
former engine drivers, firemen and Saturday 26th to Sunday 3rd Nov
Halloween Ghost Train railway workers to find out about life Hobbits and Hobgoblins. Find the Chacksfield. Stanier spent much of
Diesel Traction: `i nside' the Swindon Works. Norma naughty hobbits and hobgoblins his early career working for GWR at
Swindon. but rose to fame as the
Thursday 31st October admission charges.STEAM hidden around Swindon Museum & Chief Mechanical Engineer of the
6.30pm - 8.30pni Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th Art Gallery. 50p London Midland & Scottish Railway.
oPO E N Day out with Thomas. Meet Thomas
Pal- Saturday 26th to Sunday 3rd Nov £2.50. STEAM
I the Tank Engine, take a ride on mini Mouse in the House. Follow a trail
3^ NORTH L Thursday 17th, 8pm
rn-,,. SWINDON Thomas road train and meet Sir through the rooms at Lydiard House Mr Nice - an audience with Howard
I Topham Hatt, The Fat Controller. and help the servants by finding the Marks. £13.50. Wyvern
Also storytelling, face painting, little mice before they eat all the
^^ u•*ON Aa HAYOON
WEST WICK competitions and quiz trails. Adults furnishings. £1.25
SWINDON r,^
£6.60, children £4.20. under 5s free. Sunday 27th, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Blunsdon Station, Tadpole Lane STEAM Woods, Witchcraft & Folklore. A
Swindon. Tel: (01793) 771615
gentle 3 mile walk around Lydiard
looking at woodland tales of witchcraft
and folklore. Wearstoutshoes. bring
plenty of imagination. Meet Lydiard
Park Visitor Centre. Book on 771419
Monday 28th to Sunday 3rd Nov
Calling all Novice Witches and the 13th Century Holy Rood
Wizards. A mischievous enchant-
Friday 18th, 7.30pm
ment has been cast and we need
at Swindon Society slide show- Holy
your help. Normal admission Rood to Christ Church, a Christian
charges. STEAM
Millennium in Swindon. £3/£2,
Tuesday 29th, 1.30 - 4pm proceeds to Christ Church. Christ
Fairy Tale. Puppet making event
MUSEUM OF THE GREAT WISP!RM RAILWAY Church Cricklade Street. Call 521408
themed around Grimm's Fairy Tales. for details
Museum of the Great Western Ro iway Forage 5- 11 years, booking advised.
Kemble Drive, Swindon Saturday 19th, 2.15pm
Next door to McArthurGlen Designe° of £2. Swindon Museum & Art Gallery Tour of the National Monument
Wednesday 30th, 1.30pm - 3pm Record Centre. An introduction to
Saturday 26th & Activity Zone. An afternoon of the work of the NMRC. Free
environmental games and activities
Sunday 27th October Thursday 24th, 7pm
for 7 to 14 year olds. Wearold clothes.
The Churchward Revolution. Tim
Meet Lydiard Park Visitor Centre.
Great value family tickets Book on 771419 Bryan, STEAM curator highlights the
including mini train ride huge changes made by Churchward
Thursday 31st in the design of locomotives and
Under 5's Free Halloween Hocus Pocus. Come rolling stock, and also in the
and ' meet characters from the past.
expansion and development of the
Normal admission charges.STEAM Works at Swindon. £2.50. STEAM
Thursday 31st, 4.30pm - 7pm
Ugly Bug Ball. Come as a spider. a
beetle, or any creepy crawlie. Music,
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bug dancing competition, storytelling,
prizes. Forage5- I1 years. booking
essential. £1. Swindon Museum &
THOMAS Art Gallery
Swmeon & FRIENDS Thursday 31st, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
Halloween Ghost Train - diesel
traction. Swindon & Cricklade
Railway, Tadpole Lane, Purton. For
details tel: 771615 George Churchward 1857 - 1933