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Stagecoach moves bus depot from Do you speak Swindonian? Heritage mag tells
Old Town to Cheney Manor a tragic tale

Sarah Grossenbacher, a linguistics
student at the University of Berne
in Switzerland, is studying the
dialect of people living along the
M4 corridor with particular focus
Rupert Cox MD Stagecoach West, and Justin Tomlinson MP, with left, on the area between Swindon and
engineering manager Geoff Sturgess and operations manager Shelley Usher Bristol. The team behind the quarterly
She’s a member of an Swindon Heritage magazine have
The £3.2 million purpose-built facility is a really significant
facility at Cheney Manor Industrial investment and shows the international team mapping how published another excellent 84 page
Estate has been built on the site of company’s confidence in Swindon as English is spoken across Britain. Spring edition packed with local
the Plessey Social Club and replaces an economic success in the region. They’ve created an App. available history.
the old and very restricted site on The garage represents a much via AppStore and Google Play which The cover story is a detailed
Eastcott Hill in Old Town. needed element in the regeneration has been downloaded over 30,000 look at Ben and Ellen Howard, the
In the Swindon area Stagecoach of Cheney Manor Industrial Estate.” times and allows users across the Swindon couple who perished on
maintains and operates a fleet of Swindon operations manager UK to submit examples of speech. the Titanic when it sank in 1912.
65 buses across 8 different models, Shelley Usher said: “The opening of Sarah needs lots of contributions There are articles on the strange
serving over 5.5 million passengers our new hub is a dream come true. to be able to analyse dialect from a tales about the Swindon railway
annually. We will now be able to operate particular area, but, so far, there are works hooter and the anniversary at
North Swindon MP Justin much more efficiently and the site fewer than ten contributions from Swindon Crematorium.
Tomlinson opening the depot on also allows us opportunities to Swindon. Find out where to purchase a copy
26 February said: “This £3.2 million expand in the future.” Find out more about the project at and/or take out a subscription at:
www.bit.ly/swindialect www.swindonheritage.com

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