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Music Talk
Saturday 3rd, gates 6.30pm Sunday 11 August, 2pm
Retro Fever featuring The Real Thing, Dig For Victory. Hear how land was
Alvin Stardust and Heatwave. Swindon used to grow fruit and vegetables
Bowl Concert, see advert on page 28 during WW2. £10, including walled
Thursday 29th to Saturday 31st, garden entry, to book call 01793 770401.
7.30pm & Sat 2.30pm Lydiard Park
Bugle Boy. A heart-
warming tale of the Exhibition
life and loves of mu-
sic icon Glenn Miller Until November Swindon Wide What’s On
featuring all the fa- 160 Camp: The Lydiard Park Prisoner
mous tunes. £17.50 of War Camp. Photographs, maps and
to £21.50. Wyvern stories about the inmates, doctors and
guards at the PoW hospital camp . Nor-
Fundraising mal admission charges. Lydiard House
Table Top Sale Monday 19 Aug to Friday 6 Sept
The Guild of Wiltshire Artists.
Saturday 10 August and every Framed artworks to view or buy as
second Saturday of the month well as a collection of original post-
10am to 12noon card size sketches and paintings
Tables for hire £5 available for purchase at £5 each.
Call Ann Bunce on 01793 771131 Free entry. Town Hall, Cross Hayes,
All Saints Community Hall Malmesbury, SN16 9BZ
Southbrook Street, off Ferndale Road www.guildofwiltshireartists.com

All aboard the Summer ticket offer at Steam

There’s plenty of ac- Lode Star and control
tion and adventure to the signals in the GWR
be had at the Steam Signal Box.
Museum this summer. The story-telling
And to make those displays take visitors
pound coins last long- underneath the 80
er, children aged 3 to ton Caerphilly Castle
16 years can visit for locomotive, left, in-
just £1 each, from 20 side the GWR buffet
July to 1 September, car and there’s even
when accompanied the chance to have
by a full-paying adult. a go on the working
Up to four children vintage slot machines
can visit for the special at the Seaside Pier.
price and under threes go free. Younger children will love the
In the July Link there was a special dedicated play areas and there’s a Rowington for Shrewley layout –
Kids for a Quid voucher for Steam. If summer holiday trail to count how Picture courtesy of BRM
you missed it you can download one many seaside objects they can find.
from www.steam-museum.org.uk And for creative fun, don’t miss the
As well as Steam’s Stop, Look and Smiley Cats Club for 5 to 11 year olds
Listen fun trail to follow, children re- every Wednesday and Thursday morn-
ally get to use their imagination as ing throughout the summer holidays. The Big gWR evenT of The YeaR
they test their skills on the museum’s See details at www.smileycats.co.uk Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September 2013
train driving simulator, climb aboard www.steam-museum.org.uk 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

Celebrate the UK’s best
model railways at STeaM
– Museum of the great
Western Railway
Join Pete Waterman and hornby for
the ultimate display of model railway
layouts, traders, steam vehicles and
hands-on modelling demonstrations

Dr Richard Beeching: Hero or Villian?
Come and see our photographic exhibition of the lost gWR railway stations

STeaM - Museum of the great Western Railway | fire fly avenue | Swindon | Sn2 2DY
Tel: (01793) 466637 | www.steam-museum.org.uk
www.facebook.com/steammuseum @steam_museum
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