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40 The Link Magazine • June 2003

CYCLECARE - Purton Display your memories with a little help
Nowadays you might think the only way to show off photographs is
sales • spares • repairs by doing fancy things with computers, so its nice to discover a quick,
Made to simple, community orientated way of presenting photographs.
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY.
/measure curtains, cards, coins, newspaper articles,
THE BROMPTON Jennifer Saunders from Purton
if i swags, & tails. '+-
Folding runs Creative Memories work- ballet shoes.
All other valances, shops where you can discover sim- "The workshops introduce you
bike light
/weight, R-blinds, London, etc. pie techniques to bring photo- to simple, low cost, easy to use
use with Free measuring & quotations, graphs to life. "Rather than leaving cutting equipment, and more im-
Bcycles Full fitting service availabl e pictures in albums or the shop en- portantly it gives you the confi-
bus/train
Handmade footstools to order' velope, the workshops teach you dence to have a go. You don't have
Re-upholstery of dining chairs etc. ways to present them in unusual to be'creative', just keen to explore
w4: fr m and appealing ways," she said, new ways of telling a story with
GIANT &
PUKY "Any project is suitable where you your photographs."
have photographs and memora- For details of classes and work-
89 High Street, Purton bilia, such as celebrations, retire- shops in the Swindon area, call
1 Apsley House Arcade, Wootton Bassett. ments, engagements, weddings, Jennifer on 771858 or 0797 33 22
Tel: 778123
anniversaries, holidays, moving 519 or mail: jen@godwinsfarm
home, pets, hobbies, small busi- .co.uk
nesses, works socials, sports, She is also looking for people to
Brewster friends, class mates, year books - train as Creative Memories con-
the list goes on.
sultants. You can be of any age or
"The techniques are ideal for dis-
Hire Cen playing family history as well and background, just keen to share a
great way of 'preserving the past,
you can combine all manner of enriching the present and inspir-
Carpet cleaners mementoes to go with your pie- ing hope for the future.' All train-
£20 days hire; £25 2 days/week tures: tickets, place cards, post ing is free.
hire (includes shampoo)
LETTERS TO THE LINK
20% off all other tool hire
(Includes half day and over-night nlres) War time attacks on Swindon
From Gwen Powditch (nee Green), The Street, Moredon
1 78 Rodbourne Road Memories came flooding back fear I experienced seeing the gas-
reading the recent letters in The ometer on fire and seeing firemen
Near Designer Outlet Village
Link on the air attacks in Swindon with metal sheets trying to extin-
Tel: 01793 522306 during World War II. The one re- guish the flames.
latedbyJohnPartridgelastmonth The houses demolished in
was most vivid. Ferndale Road (by Northern Road)
I lived in Harcourt Road with is also a morning I remember as on
my parents and three of my four that occasion our ceilings came
brothers. I can still remember the down.
Tim Bryant, curator at the STEAM museum also responded to the letters and
provided this photo of workers repairing the gasometer in Rodbourne after it
was machine gunned in an attack on 27 August 1942

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vs computer technology. The Tony Long wheelchair marathon and sponsored walk takes place
at Kempsford in Gloucestershire on 29 June in aid of the Wiltshire
5- Once we were just another Community Foundation and the Thamesdown Housing Trust, Scope
a conservatory company... Association Housing Trust and charities supported by the Rotary Club.
now we truly live up to our For details of the event organised by The Rotary Club of North
0 Wiltshire, call Peter Clifford on 721701.
name of Dynamic
People to abseil 100 foot in aid of the Anthony Nolan Trust
01793 727297 Play a significant part in the battle against of leukaemia by harnessing
up and walking down the side of the W.H.Smithbuilding atGreenbridge.
The Anthony Nolan Trust manages one of the world's largest regis-
www.dy-namic.co.uk ters of bone marrow donors and provides hope to over 7,000 adults and
young leukaemia sufferers looking for a suitable donor.
The entry fee is £15 per person, £20 per couple, or £36 for a group of
four. For details, call 01865 - 875757. www.anthonynolan.org.uk