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The number keeps on grow-
ing which is music to the ears BLUNSDON AT
of editor Graham Carter who
said: “The commitment of our
subscribers to buying advance
copies enables us to plan - WAR -
ahead and ensures the future
of the magazine. It’s really im-
portant for our not-for-profit Swindon & Cricklade Railway 7th/8th September 2013
social enterprise.”
The team is making plans Fun For All The Family
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are working with schools and hope to at a time when tanks were a brand Family: £30 £24
produce spin-off publications. new invention.
Magazine executive editor Mark There’s an explanation of the an-
Sutton said: “We’ve already delivered cestral link between the new-born
presentations and exhibitions to God- Prince George of Cambridge with
dard Park Community Primary School Lydiard House and Park, an article
and St Joseph’s Catholic College about about the 81 farms that used to be
local men who fought in the war. dotted across the Swindon landscape
“We’re hoping to find the funding to and also one man’s very personal link
produce a special Great War edition.” to the Holocaust.
But what can subscribers expect to With 84 pages of local history, his-
find in the third edition of Swindon torian and chief writer Frances Bevan
Heritage? said she is confident the magazine
The cover story is the continuing has something for all readers with an
tale of William Blake, a Swindon man interest in Swindon’s past.
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driving instructor in the Tank Corps www.swindonheritage.com The organisers have the right to cancel or amend the show
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