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BOOK-KEEPING CARPET CLEANING Reflecting on three decades
Well, if it's 30 years for The Link, then it's 29 for me in Swindon...
Can't face iiff Whitew doesn't time fly while you're raising a family, writes former West
doing the books Swindon resident Martha Parry.
The Carpet&
after a hard It was absolutely wonderful to too can play a role in the life of the
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Upholstery Cleaning Specialist see that Jean Carey and the Good community. School by school, road
day's work? • Carpets, rugs, curtains. suites etc Companions are still flourishing in crossing by road crossing -West
• Emergency call Out available the January edition. It was Roger and North Swindon's growth was
Call Leonard Fuller,
• Hard floors cleaned and sealed Ogle who introduced me to Jean, shared.
A. I. C. B, • Stain removal • Protection treatment and all the other folks busy building But The Link did not neglect the
qualified bookkeeper • Fully insured
a new community when I arrived wider town news, so that people
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with over 15 years' • Quickly usable from Canada, just a bit dazed inl98O. knew they were a part of Swindon
experience. You'll be amazed how affordable it is Within months he and Ruth had me too. All the bigger issues like the
call for your free estimate from your pasting headlines for The Link with Front Garden development, the
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changing of the political guard,
www.bookkeepingswindon.co.uk Email: cliff.whitesvav@btinternet.com And it was Rogerwho introduced have been highlighted, along with
me to other wardens when I was the cultural opportunities, as well
appointed to open Elsie Hazell the plumbers, decorators and elec-
CLEANING CLEANING Court, and he told Jennylee Hall at tricians who helped us all make our
the playgroup that I needed a good new houses our homes.
THE CLEANING & deputy warden. She was hired and So, 'if it was The Link wot did it
(RON(NG SERVICE A CLEAN I had a friend for life, for West and North Swindon,' why
The Link mirrors the best in not spread this 'positive newsforce'
House cleans from people, making others realise they across Swindon in the next thirty?
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