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LANDLORDS Swindon’s widest choice Search on for wartime heroines
of discounted
Are you looking for a The Science Museum Swindon is trying to track down women who worked
reliable & competitive service Art & Craft on the World War II airfi eld during its heyday, between1939 and 1950.
Staff are keen to learn more about the experience of working on the
on letting your property? products Wroughton site and to capture their stories as background for the up-
from coming lottery bid.
Framework Art & Craft During the war the site was the base for No.15 Maintenance Unit and
Unit 35 BSS House planes fl ew into Wroughton from factories all over Britain to have weapons
Cheney Manor, Swindon and equipment fi tted before delivery to their operational units. Sixty two
See and feel the products
See and feel the products
See and feel the products
See and feel the products
See and feel the products
See and feel the products
See and feel the products different types of aircraft were worked on at Wroughton.
before you buy, and Apart from the women ground crew, many of the civilian auxiliaries
If yes! get personal advice from who fl ew the planes in and out of the site were women.
Then Evergreen our knowledgeable our knowledgeable our knowledgeable our knowledgeable our knowledgeable our knowledgeable our knowledgeable To offer your story, or if you know somebody who could add to the his-
Property Letting & Management and friendly staff. tory of the site, contact Matt Moore at the Science Museum on 846229,
Service is the choice for you. Well worth a visit! or mail: [email protected]
Tel: (01793) 877285 Tel/Fax 01793 513069
Email: [email protected] www.purplenimbus.co.uk
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Win a collection of journeys in a collection of journeys
across Britain
Tailor-made Line Dance Coast and Map Man presenter, celebrated explorer, writer and broadcaster
by SueLynn with Nicholas Crane’s BBC series, Great British Journeys, is available on DVD
Midnight Cowboys
on 1 October 2007 and you can win a copy worth £29.99.
All eight epi-
Curtains Tuesday: Even Swindon, 7.00 sodes come on
Community Centre Jennings
Pelmets Street (off Rodbourne Road) a three-disc set
Roman blinds Wednesday: Highworth, 7.00 and feature bo-
nus footage not
Swags & tails Thursday: Coleview 7.00 shown during the
Cushion covers Community Centre, Nythe Road TV broadcast.
Step by step instruction for y step instruction for y step instruction for
Step b
Step b Combining all
No job too small absolute beginners. Weekend so- the key elements
For further information call cials in Highworth and Swindon and character-
istics that made
Sue: 01793 870451 or For more details Coast and Map
Lynn: on 01793 330595 Ring Lewis Watson on 764732 Man so compel-
Ten years of teaching!
ling, entertaining
and informative,
Old Bell Nick as he sets
the series follows
out to retrace
Pottery & Crafts - by horse, bicy-
cle and on foot
- the journeys
made by Britain’s
High Street, Lechlade • Tel: 01367 252608 greatest home-
grown explorers
E-mail: [email protected]
on eight of the
most extraordi-
FOR GREAT GIFT IDEAS nary adventures
of discovery ever made across ton’s Search for Scotland in his
Knitting & Haberdashery the UK. Bullnose Morris.
Much like Coast, Great British
From Daniel Defoe’s wild adven-
Sewing needs: X-stitch ~ Tapestry ~ Rowan tures through East Anglia to the Journeys is a fascinating and in-
~ Jaeger ~ Patons ~ Yarns and Patterns great medieval journeys of Gerald spiring series about travel, geog-
of Wales, from Thomas Pennant’s raphy, landforms and the ways in
We’ll also gladly order anything else you need. 18th Century tour of Scotland and which ordinary, everyday people
Hebridean island hopping to Wil- relate to the landscapes around
Dolls houses & miniatures liam Cobbett’s polemical Rural them.
Traditional games & toys; local craft items Rides through the rustic beauty The three-disc set will be re-
of southern England, Great British leased by Contender Home Enter-
In the Stable Journeys looks at how the chroni- tainment on 1 October at £29.99.
A great selection of cles of these travellers informed How to win
local pottery. the public of the day and how Brit-
ain of the past compares to that of
Also: China seconds the present. a copy
from Stoke-on-Trent Other journeys undertaken Contender have made three sets
by Nick include William Gilpin’s available to Link readers.
In the Garden milestone exploration of the River All you have to do is name
Pots, planters & Wye, Celia Fiennes’ epic 17th three areas of Britain featured in
Great British Journeys.
ornaments from Century journey on horseback Send your answers to The Link,
around the world from London to the Scottish bor- 71 Basepoint, Swindon SN5 7EX
der, the Tudor topographer John
Mon to Sat 10am to 5pm • Sun 11am to 5pm Leland’s 300-mile tour of the West by Monday 15 October, or mail:
[email protected]
Country and travel writer HV Mor-

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