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Cupboard mystery for Christmas
Youngsters at Bradon Forest School have devised an eerie tale of child-
hood fantasies and wanting too much at Christmas time with head of
Expressive Arts David Calder.
Playing from Wednesday 2 to Friday 4 December, 7.30pm, in the Bradon
Forest performing art centre, Mary Theresa’s Cupboards combines a spoilt
child, a mysterious house said to be haunted by an old crone who col-
lected toys, a chorus of estate agents and a dance troupe of broken toys.
Tickets are £4 adults and £3 for under 16s from the school, tel: 770570.
David Calder as a fi erce Macbeth visiting youngsters at Brook Field Primary
School for a Shakespeare Day in November

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Christmas Menus

Classic Meal for 2

Prawn Crackers
Deep Fried Smoked Shredded Chicken Competition to fi nd the best poets
Barbecue Ribs
Crispy Seaweed & Mini Vegetable Spring Rolls The free to enter Battered Moons Poetry Competition is open to anybody
living in Swindon over the age of fourteen, with the best seven entrants
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being asked to read their work at May’s Swindon Festival of Literature.
Lemon Chicken
❆ Fortune Cookies ❅ Literature and Swindon Artwords, will also be published at www.thepo-
The winning poems in the competition, supported by the Festival of
Beef and Mushrooms in Black Bean Sauce
Sweet & Sour Pork HK Style
etryexchange.com
Egg Fried Rice
The closing date for submissions is 8 January. For details mail organiser:
[email protected]
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£18.88
Swindon’s own Alfred The Great
A new society to appreciate and promote the life and work of Swindon’s
Superior Meal for 2 railway poet Alfred Williams is offi cially launched at the Central Library
on Tuesday 8 December, 7pm.
Williams who lived be-
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worked as a steam ham-
Prawn Crackers tween 1877 and 1930,
Quarter Aromatic Crispy Duck mer operator at Swindon
Railway Works. Despite
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Crispy Prawn Rolls was widely recognised in
Satay Chicken on Skewers & his day as a talented writer
Crispy Seaweed and a notable literary scholar, who
became nationally appreciated positive effect on preserving heri-
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Shredded Chilli Chill Beef Poet.’ heritage of the town.”
Williams developed a love for
His book Life in a Railway Fac-
Chicken with Green Peppers tory portrayed the harsh working India where he served in World
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in Black Bean Sauce conditions inside the GWR works War I and taught himself Sanskrit
Special Fried Rice and remains a vivid contemporary so he could learn more about its
❅ £22.88 Century Swindon. Cullimore believes he represents
account of factory life in early 20th culture, religions and literature. Dr
Fortune Cookies
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The rural surroundings close a unifying focus for the town’s dif-
ferent ethnic groups and religions
to the town centre at the time in-
Complementary bottle of Lambrini/Coke/ spired him to write poetry and and a fi gure to promote the town’s
prose about his native countryside heritage.
Diet Coke/ two bottles of Stella upon ordering and its folklore. Read some of Alfred Williams’
the Superior Meal Dr John Cullimore, chair of the work and for an invitation to attend
Alfred Williams Heritage Society, at: www.alfredwilliams.org.uk
OPEN: Sun-Thur 4.45pm-11.15pm; Fri & Sat 4.45pm-11.45pm said, “despite his historical impor-
Open every Bank Holiday. Last orders for delivery 15 mins before tance, Alfred Williams is largely Swindon Mela
closing time. Debit/credit cards accepted in shop only for orders unknown to the vast majority of
over £7. Free delivery within 2.5 mile radius. Swindonians of the present day, 4th Annual General Meeting
See our full menu at www.rendezvous.uk.net and there are few contemporary Drove Social Hall,
CHRISTMAS OPENING TIMES references to his achievement. off Southampton Street, Swindon
Xmas Eve: 4.30pm-11pm Xmas Day & Boxing Day CLOSED However, we believe his inspira- Thursday 3 December, 7.30pm
Light refreshments provided.
New Years Eve: 4.30pm-11pm New Years Day: 4.30pm-11pm tional life and work justify a ma- A new committee to organise
Tel: 01793 703388 jor effort to promote awareness Swindon Mela 2010 will be elected.
of this compelling character, and
we fi rmly believe there would be a www.swindonmela.com

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