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“I’m in PAIN” More discoveries about our past
Can Chiropractic Help ME? in the new Swindon Heritage
YOUR INITIAL VISIT WILL INCLUDE: Local history often throws up surprises, and the new edition of Swindon
A private consultation with the Practitioner Heritage sheds light on some more recent discoveries about the town’s
Spinal Analysis Machine rich past.
A thorough spinal examination including The Autumn 2013 edition of the Cemetery.
Orthopaedic & Neurological tests quarterly magazine is the third to be Graham added: “She lived the last
A confidential verbal report of your findings produced since it was launched in few years of her life here, but has
February, and editor Graham Carter passed into obscurity. Yet she received
ALL THIS FOR £20 (normal price £75 - expiry 31/10/13) said there was seemingly no limit to a glowing reference from Florence
The conditions below are some of the warning signals: material available. Nightingale when she returned home
HEADACHES/MIGRAINE (arising from the neck), He said: “People are still telling us from the war in the 19th Century.”
NECK/ARM/BACK PAIN to be careful we don’t run out of inter- Other revelations in the pages of
If you are experiencing any of these symptoms call our clinic esting stories to tell, but in Swindon, the latest edition include research
TODAY based at Simply Gym: West Swindon. Tel. 07729 579618 heritage runs deep. that has shown the now-urban part of
“We have an endlessly interesting Swindon, along with South Marston,
history, and our latest edition includes was once covered by at least 81 farms.
LETTINGS some new discoveries. The magazine also throws a spot-
“For example, we already knew light on an abandoned Old Town
Swindon men had a key role to play railway tunnel, the astonishing ar-
in the first conflicts to involve tanks. chive of scientific documents held at
“But we have published, for the first Wroughton, and the link between the
Lettings & Property Management time, part of the memoirs of a Swindon new prince George and Lydiard House.
Swindon based with man called William Blake who was a Swindon Heritage can be bought
over 25 years experience tank driving instructor in 1917 – right at various outlets around the town,
at the very birth of what was then a including the Central Library and Pen
strange new invention.” and Paper bookshop in Victoria Road.
New landlords urgently required! The new edition also features The full list, and details of how to buy
Contact Julie Bailey for more information the story of Charlotte Wilsdon, who or subscribe online can be found at
worked beside history’s most fa- www.swindonheritage.com
Tel: 07950 748845 mous nurse, Florence Nightingale, Each edition costs £4.99, and sub-
Email: [email protected] in the Crimean War, but is buried in scribers living at SN postcodes receive
an unmarked grave in Radnor Street free delivery.

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