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Viva La Diva show Researcher seeks help with North Swindon book
Saturday 30 April, 10am - 4pm
Steam Museum Do you have an elderly rela- Heritage, is a qualifi ed tour
All day programme of tive who loves to talk about guide and the historian for
catwalk and hair shows, the olden days around north Littlecote House near Hun-
inspirational speakers, Swindon? gerford. She attributes her
Swindon’s Top Model, stalls, If so, local history and ge- fascination with history to
demonstrations from fashion nealogy buff Debra Edmonds childhood walks and visits
designers and make-up artists from Oakhurst would love to to stately homes.
from local businesses and hear from you. With a deadline to write
colleges, a kids zone Debra has won a publish- her book Debra is looking
dedicated to mini-divas, and ing contract to write a book for all the help she can get. “I
children’s dance shows. based on the idea of a histori- would love to speak to older
Proceeds to Breast Cancer cal walk around North West people who know the area
Campaign Swindon, offering readers the around Blunsdon St Andrew,
For tickets, at £5, opportunity to rediscover the Haydon Wick, Pinehurst,
call 07948 372 965 past in the local landscape. Rodbourne Cheney, Penhill,
She said, “I love looking at
Moredon and Gorse Hill, and
www.vivaladiva.yolasite.com old maps and like to imagine who will remember all about
what places would have the old lanes and farms.
“Sometimes a farm was
Janet‛s looked like hundreds of years known by the name of the
ago, so I wanted to put to-
Puppy gether a book that persuades people who ran it rather than
Skool people to get out and look for its given name, so it would
the history around them.”
be good to hear people’s
Have fun teaching your dog Debra has a long lineage memories.”
good manners and behaviour in Swindon and has traced Get in touch with Debra
at one of our friendly classes her own ancestors back as at: info@presenting-the-past.
✓ Playskool for puppies far as the 17th Century. “I’m co.uk
www.presenting-the-past.
✓ Adult beginners/improvers related to William Edmonds Debra with pictures of her ancestors co.uk
✓ Senior Skool/advanced classes of Lydiard Tregoze who was William Edmonds and Jacob Edmonds
✓ One to one advice & training gardener to Lord Bolingbroke
✓ Fun agility workshops at Lydiard House in the 1870s, and Workshops on 14 May to celebrate
www.janetspuppyskool.co.uk my great-great-great-grandfather craft businesses coming together
was Jacob Edmonds, a parish clerk
APDT Member (01066) at Lydiard.”
Janet Garrett DipCAPBT Dip.dog.psy Two businesses have joined forces at Studley Grange Craft Village,
Tel: 01793 727158 Debra, who works for English with paper crafting and scrap booking specialists Sparkle Dreams and
email: [email protected] the Dolls House Workshop combining their strengths to offer longer
opening hours, more frequent workshops and a more comprehensive
online outlet.
They will be holding
a grand relaunch on
Saturday 14 May, 10am
to 5pm, with scrapbook-
ing and card making
demonstrations, dolls
house viewings, gifts,
cakes and a chance to win
Get your a papercrafting hamper.
Solace Scholey, mother
pet’s vaccination back of four and former train-
ing offi cer for Vodaphone,
of Sparkle Dreams, said,
“the shops retain their
on track this month own identity, but are in
the same large area at
Studley Grange. We’re
excited about the im-
Give your pet the boost provements to the store and the scrapbooking, and for dolls house
they need this month product range; we have increased enthusiasts.
“All this, together with a large
our stock by 50 per cent and will
with a full vaccination be open from 10am to 5pm, seven cash injection from Tony Miller,
days a week.
owner of Studley Grange, will make
“A new purpose built classroom us one of the largest businesses of
course for the cost of a has been incorporated in the en- its type in the South West.”
routine booster larged shop, which means more www.sparkledreams.co.uk
www.studleygrange.co.uk
workshops in card making and
Sponsored walk in aid of the PDSA,
62 - 64 Purton Rd, 24 Hour Open:
Swindon SN2 2LZ Emergency Monday to Friday organised by North Swindon Fundraising Group
9am - 6.30pm
(end of Akers Way) Saturday and supported by Janet’s Puppy Skool
Tel: 01793 526780 Service 9am - 12noon Sunday 1 May, 10am to 4pm, Lydiard Park
www.thameswoodvets.co.uk Walk around the park plus craft fayre, dog agility course, competitions.
To register call 493178 or mail: [email protected]

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