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There were critics who Where You Live telling the history
said it couldn’t be done, of Old Shaw Lane, Swindon’s best
but the small team of kept secret place.
volunteers at Swindon And for a real life Call the
Heritage have proved Midwife story, read about 101 year
them wrong as the 12th old Jane Allen who recalls working
edition of the quarterly at the Kingshill Maternity Home
magazine goes on sale in during the 1940s and 50s.
early December. Copies of the current and past
Editor Graham Carter editions of Swindon Heritage are
said: “People told us not on sale at Swindon Central Library
to put all the best stuff from the first week in December.
in the first editions of Other stockists are listed on the
the magazine but we website. And it’s not too late to
have proved Swindon buy a subscription for that perfect
has more than enough Christmas present that lasts all year.
fantastic heritage to fill www.swindonheritage.com
84 pages every time.”
And this year co-
founders Frances Bevan,
Graham Carter and
Mark Sutton have seen
the magazine become
a vehicle to deliver amazing Swindon
events when Swindon Heritage Heritage and the Swindon
teamed up with Paul Gentleman Suffragette group organised a
and Caroline Black to mark the 75th month long celebration of Swindon
anniversary of the Battle of Britain. born suffragette Edith New who
The team organised a series of became one of the leading figures
sell-out talks at Central Library and in the Votes for Women campaign.
The Beehive and brought replica And coming up in 2016, the big
Spitfire and Hurricane planes to the heritage story is Swindon 175,
town centre. The commemorative marking the opening of the Great
events culminated in a royal visit Western Railway Works and the
by HRH Prince Richard, Duke of creation of the Victorian new town.
Gloucester and a spectacular flypast The key feature of the December
by the Battle of Britain Memorial edition of Swindon Heritage is
Flight in which four Spitfires the arrival of King George V and £129
and two Hurricanes flew over the City of Truro locos at STEAM
Radnor Street Cemetery to honour Museum, as well as the launch of
Swindon’s own Battle of Britain Swindon 175.
hero Squadron Leader Harold Starr. Other stories in the Winter edition
In another successful partnership include regular feature The Street
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Pantomime “Dick Whittington” Box office numbers are 01793
written by Tina and Rob Burbidge 813847 and 01793 825645. Tickets
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December to Sunday 13 December. For more information about the
The panto will be performed at panto visit the website at www. Offer Expires End of February 2016
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