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the bigger picture Where’s your

With the completion of the West Swindon signage project, to Swindon?
encourage use of the extensive pedestrian and cycle network The gallery at www.swindonlink.
across the area, the bigger picture looks back over 25 years to com is looking for your images of the
the River Ray Parkway project to convert the former Midland & town on the theme of ‘My Swindon.’
South Western Junction Railway line into a recreational route If you have 10 to 20 pictures which
from Old Town to Moredon. portray your view of Swindon, send
A large number of railway themed direction posts were erected them to us and we’ll publish them
in the mid-1980s, but the fingers were easily moved by vandals online, with selected shots used in
and more often than not pointed in the wrong direction. Many the magazine.
remain in place but have become a sorry sight, bent or broken, See www.swindonlink.com for
pointing to an era when Thamesdown Council (now Swindon) more details.
aspired to providing high quality urban street furniture
without regard to the cost of ongoing maintenance over Local history gallery
the long term. hits 1m views
Clockwise from top right, decapitated in Old Town; at the
bottom of Kingshill; new directions erected earlier this year Swindon Council’s Library Service
next to old; free online picture gallery at Flickr
the River has celebrated its second anni-
Ray Park- versary by reaching the landmark
way next to milestone of over one million views.
the Swindon The gallery includes over 5,000
Cheltenham photographs, drawings, postcards,
railway line, old documents, maps and plans,
c l o s e t o and stores a significant amount of
Sparcells information on Swindon’s heritage,
the earliest image reaching back to
the 1850s.
On average the site receives
3,200 views per day and staff are
constantly adding new images as
only a fraction of the library collec-
tion has been scanned.
People can continue to con-
tribute to the collection either by
adding photographs or helping to
identify the people and places in
the images.
www.flickr.com/swindonlocal

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