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18 The Link Magazine • January 2004
        Milestones for us - 25 years in West Swindon and 10 in the North

   The Link has been in publication  sand homes in Haydon Wick and  archives stretching back to those  of building to be completed at
   for a quarter of a century!  Woodhall Park to our target distri-  early days of West Swindon.  Priory Vale - but the tenth anniver-
     Starting out as a four page news-  bution in readiness for the first  However do you have any pic-  sary is a significant moment in its
   letter distributed to 600 houses in houses to be occupied in Abbey  tures and other special memories  development.
   the 'western expansion' in Decem-  Meads in October that year. Then  which need to be preserved for  Who has pictures taken in those
   ber 1978, we now print 23,000 cop-  we distributed to 15,000 homes,  posterity? Time is passing and  early days? Could you write down
   ies. This number is set to rise to  now we go to over 20,000 across  unless it's collected now the infor-  your hopes and aspirations of mov-
   30,000 as houses in Priory Vale are  West and North Swindon.  mation will be lost.  ing to an area advertised as the
   occupied over the next six years.                       We ask because the Swindon So-  'community for the 21st Century?'
     We think we are the closest read  History starts today.  ciety - renowned for its books on  Can the parents of the first baby
   publication in Swindon, and many  Archive material appeal  Swindon in the past - has asked us  born in the area contact us?
   people say that The Link offers by  Asa debate rages about Swindon's  to contribute to a book looking at  More important, is there a group
   far the best quality in terms of con-  future growth - Front Garden,  the recent history of the town.  of residents willing to bring to
   tent and appearance, standards  Coate, East Swindon- The Link rep-  Call The Link on 872282 if you  gether this material for preserva-
   which we intend to maintain.  resents a slice of the town's recent  can help.     tion and exhibition in the future?
     January is also another milestone  history through the stories cov-  The same goes for Swindon's  If you have ideas and are willing
   for us. In 1994 we added five thou-  ered and also photographs in our  northern expansion. Everybody  to commit time to making some-
                                                          thinks it is brand new - and indeed  thing happen, call 872282 or mail:
                                                          there is another six to eight years  publisher@swindonlink.com
     CO-OPERATIVE FUNERAL SERVICE                                     Making history up north
                       SWINDON                                                                 Althe Hugh they have moved barely
        , ON OppG                                                  on  to the north  In a ceremony to mark the rust  ife  from their old house  in
                                                              s
                                                         Swindon'  expansi  by occupation on 21 October, David a r  rd Road. I faydon Wick, the
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       y s                                               has been given the human  I  t and Ann Scotford and sons Daniel Sherfo phere is totally differen  on a
       a     ~^   439 Cricklade Road                      the Scotfond family who   am,thefirs   g site said Ann. They a re all
              o                                                       move into and Alex we re  presented with a b  in
                                                          of some 30,000 people to  bouquet of flowers and champagne  g forward to being joined by
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                    (01793) 534759                        the area over the next 15 y uId beoc- by representatives of house build- looW  cighbours,
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                                                          copied in the Abbey Mead s sector of  en lit sts  Homes.  d  pander. Ann
         & Temple House, 4/5 Temple Street                the northe rn development byC'hnst-  The  Scot ford
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                                                          mat,  out of a total of 10,
           (The closest ,  funeral director to the Registrar)  The story on our front page in November  1993
                    (01793) 491091                        Below: Do you remember this
                                                          marketing slogan to attract y u to  -- --
                        24 hour service
                                                          buy a house in the northern
            Private Chapels of Rest • Monumental masonry
                                                          expansion? How has it worked out?
                   Funeral pre-payment plans                                        ABBEY MEADS
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                                                            Rediscovering the roots of the Co-op
                                                          There used to be a Co-op in every neighbourhood of Swindon as well
                                                          as three bakeries and a dairy, since the first shop opened in 1837. And
    Community                                             until the 1960s, areas without a Co-op would be served by shops on
                                                          wheels.
    Dividend                                               Despitetheex-
                                                          pansion of other      An--3
    Scheme                                               retail chains over  ^'=;     '
                                                          the last century
     A minimum of                                         the Co-op is 'till  l - A   [
     1% of the Society's                                 very  much  a
                                                          presence  in
     profits are returned                                 Swindon, with a
     to projects to                                       superstore  in
     benefit the local      A Co-op community dividend grant of £350  Old Town and
     community through        has helped Shakers bar for 13 - 17 year  small shop units
     the Community             olds in Devizes Road. Old Town to be  around the town,
                                     refurbished and re-equipped.  including the re
     Dividend Scheme.           Pictured are Kevin Swan, Old Town  cently taken over
                                  Co-op manager, Jamie Stapleton       David with Old Town Co-op manager Kevin Swan and the
     If you think a project               (Shakers manager),  neighbourhood  basis for an exhibition about the Co-op in Swindon
     you know of could qualify   Gemma Bourne. Carolyn Brett and  shop at Peatmoor
                                     Susan Threshold have a go  and a development at Taw Hill.  ing old photographs and other
     for a grant of up to E I ,000,
                                           on the dance mat.  Now thirty year employee David  material for about five years, but
     call 01865 256235 for details.                       Macey has set up the Co- p His-  I'd like to hear from anybody with
                                                                            o
                                                          tory Group which has been  pictures and posters which we
      call 0800 43 5902                                   awarded a £500 community divi-  could copy for a mobile exhibition
                                                         dend grant from Oxford Swindon  called the'People's Co-op."'
      for more information                                & Gloucester Co-op to pay for pho-  Anybody with a connection to
                                                         tographic equipment, photocopy-  the Co-op who is willing to donate
     Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester                        ing and laminating, and display  or lend interesting items from the
                                                         material to stage the exhibition,  past should contact David on
                                                           David said, "I've been collect-  530734.
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