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Talks & Meetings Thursday 22nd, 7.15pm
Saturday 3rd to Monday 5th Swindon Football. Family History
Society branch meeting with speaker
The Fforde Ffi esta - Jasper Fforde Dick Mattick. Gorse Hill Community
Festival featuring a wide range of Centre, Chapel Street. Tel: 823632
activities including teenage angst
poetry competition, games, fl ying, Wednesday 21st May, 10am MOORCROFT New Edition for 2008
boat trips and races, Shakesperian Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Speaker
performance, treasure hunts, author Prof. Tony Briggs. Thamesdown Swaledale designed by Philip Gibson
readings and much more. DeVere Probus Club. Blunsdon House Hotel.
Hotel. www.ffordeffi esta.com Tel: 763733
Wednesday 7th, 7.30pm Wednesday 28th, 10am - 12.30pm
Planning A Faith Garden. Organ- & 1.30pm - 4pm
ised by Swindon Inter-Faith group. Finds Service. Wiltshire’s Finds
Donation towards expenses. Swindon Liaison Offi cer will look at archaeo-
Pilgrim Centre, Regent Circus logical fi nds. Free. Swindon Museum
& Art Gallery
Wednesday 7th,10am
Recent USAF Roles, Thamesdown Friday 30th, 7.30pm
Probus Club. Speaker Col. Joseph Dill. The Story of Swindon Town Hall.
Blunsdon House Hotel. Tel: 763733 The design and eventful history of
the Victorian town hall is explored by
Thursday 8th, 7.15pm architect Michael Gray from London
The Fair Sex - Women’s Work in based fi rm Stanford Eatwell. £4.50.
GWR. Author Dr Rosa Matheson talks Swindon Museum & Art Gallery
about her recent book. Wiltshire Family
History Society meeting. Gorse Hill
Community Centre. Tel: 823632 FUNDRAISING
Wednesday 14th, 10am - 4pm DEACON & SON (SWINDON) LTD
Richard Jefferies Museum Open Thursday 1st, 7pm & 9pm
Day. A writers’ group also meets on Fashion for Children in Confl ict Established 1848
the day. New members welcome. Catwalk show of donated and 11 - 15 Wood Street, Old Town, Swindon
Richard Jefferies Museum, Coate. modifi ed clothes. Proceeds to
Tel: 783040 or 466556 Action for Children in Confl ict. £3. Tel: 01793 527530 / 522072
Friday 16th May, 7pm New College Theatre Also: 44/45 High St, Marlborough. Tel: 01672 519955
Tel: 0845 3000 789
Saturday 10th, 10am - 4pm 42 High Street, Wootton Bassett. Tel: 01793 852945
Book Day www.deacons-jewellers.com
Raising funds for Maggie’s Cottage.
Hard and paper backed books,
competitions, readings
Bradon Forest School.
The Peak, Purton. Tel: 771452
Saturday 10th, 7.30pm.
Spring Serenade’
Threatened with demolition, the north Evening of duets and solos for
end of the Mechanics’ Institute in the soprano and contralto. £6
foreground All proceeds to Christian Aid
The Building of the New Swindon St Mary’s Church, Purton
Railway Village. Daniel Rose, chair of Tel: 814346
the New Mechanics’ Trust, talks about Saturday 10th, 1pm - 6pm
the history of the village and gives an Health, Beauty & Wellbeing Day
update of the campaign to save the Therapists and beauticians offer
derelict Mechanics’ Institute. £3. Lawn taster sessions, treatments and
Community Centre.Tel: 523048 advice. £2. Raffl e and refreshments
Saturday 17th, 10.30am - 5.30pm in aid of The Foundation for the
Swindon Bowls Club Open Day Study of Infant Deaths (FSID).
Marsh Farm Lane (off Shrivenham Wroughton Parish Hall
Road). Tel: 614255 Thursdays 8th & 22nd
Monday 19th,10am - 12noon 2pm - 3.30pm
Local and Family History. Free Bargain Bazaar
consultations and advice to research- Good quality second-hand clothes
ers. Free. Swindon Central Library. household items bric-a-brac and
Tel: 463796 Tel: 463796 books. Donations of good quality
items for sale welcome.
St Andrews Methodist Church,
Moredon Road
Tel: 636444
Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th
10am - 4pm
Table Top Sale
in aid of Prospect Hospice
Clothes, books, toys videos,
Saturday 3 May
Saturday 3 May
28 Morley Street, Swindon bric-a-brac. Refreshments
28 Morley Street, Swindon
Tel: 520300
Tel: 520300 96 Gipsy Lane, Gorse Hill
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