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Focused Counselling Time moves on with
Elaine Watt Domesday contributor
BACP accredited counsellor When Clare Lawton wrote a few lines at school in 1986 about where
she lived for the BBCs Domesday Project marking 900 years since
Do You Want to? William of Normandy set out to fi nd out what he had conquered, she
had no idea that 25 years later The Link would be trying to contact her.
• Gain a deeper understanding of yourself and become Clare was not aware that her de-
more confi dent in coping with everyday situations scription of the westward expansion
• Make sense of relationships & situations of Swindon had been selected for
• Manage feelings of stress, depression, anxiety, anger posterity by the BBC to be used in
or confusion their ambitious hi-tech information
project. In fact very few of the 1 mil-
Tel: 07919 343407 lion people who sent in contributions
to make an appointment for a no fee consultation saw their work because the specially
invented laser disc system to display
www.focusedcounselling.com the information was expensive,
diffi cult to access and soon became
HEAD RUSH HAIR However the information has
obsolete.

Unisex • Cutting • Perms • Extensions been retrieved by the BBC and is
Unisex • Cutting • Perms • Extensions
available as Domesday Reloaded
Colouring - tints - foils • Bridal hair • Children’s haircuts on the internet.
In 1986, Shaw consisted of a string
SPECIAL FOR JULY of houses along Old Shaw Lane Clare, 9, enjoying the newly built Swin-
ley Drive, Peatmoor
with this advert which was slowly being consumed just before it opened to traffi c
by the westward expansion of Swin-
Gent’s cut £9 only* don. The evidence of new build was were being asked to write about our
Julie, Emi, Gemma, Sheralee still some months away from Clare’s lives and our surroundings and it
Tel: 602552 Chair to rent. Call now home at Washpool. might be chosen to be kept for the
Aged 9 at Lydiard Millicent future by the BBC.
73 Basepoint, Rivermead, Westlea, West Swindon Church of England Primary School, “I don’t think I was ever told that
Behind Spectrum ‘Renault’ building she wrote about the growth of my writing had been chosen, so it
Free parking • Open Tuesday to Saturday • Late night Wed & Thurs Swindon: was a huge surprise when a friend
*Offer not to be used in conjunction with any other promotion. Cash or cheque “I like it in some ways but not in others. called to say that The Link wanted
Advert must be presented to receive discount. payments only When the new houses come near us there to get in touch because my name had
will be more people to play with but I appeared online on the Domesday
Manor Garden Centre liked going into the fi eld next to us where website.
there is a stream, soon I won’t be able to
“Swindon has seen some amaz-
Cheney Manor, Swindon go in. But it will be a while before the ing changes in the last 25 years. I
01793 526691 builder reaches us so I might as well make remember the road through Shaw
Open 7 days a week the most of the time I’ve got.” was still the main route into the town
Now 35, Clare, a from my home, and
part-time physio- there wasn’t a gate at
therpist and a pilates Nine Elms blocking
New 2011 teacher, lives close to the direct route. I do
Collection the town centre. “I miss the green fi elds
remember learning
Huge range about the Domesday around my parent’s
home.”
Over 250 fabrics Book and being really See the contributions
Cane, Rattan excited about the idea about Swindon and
Hardwood combinations that we were look- send in updates via
Free local delivery ing back hundreds of http://bbc.in/domes-
years,” she said. “It
dayswindon
www.conservatorycentres.co.ukww.conservatorycentres.co.uk
w was inspiring that we

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