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Everything you ever wanted to know about Theatres support Wiltshire Treehouse
Swindon’s history As part of a new community this amount and keep the much
outreach program, Swindon needed service free for families,
History column by Graham Carter Theatres, which runs The Arts
of Swindon Heritage magazine Swindon Theatres will arrange
Centre and The Wyvern, are fundraising opportunities as well as
If you are interested in our town’s teaming up with local charity, providing activities for the charity’s
proud local history, then don’t Wiltshire Treehouse, to aid with young users such as free tickets.
miss the brand new Summer 2016 fundraising and facilities support. www.treehousewiltshire.org.uk
edition of Swindon Heritage, which The fledgling charity, which
is now on sale. supports bereaved children and
Our 14th quarterly publication is young people in Swindon and the
available at a number of outlets in surrounding area, does not receive
the town, and details can be found government support and to run a
at www.swindonheritage.com full service needs to raise around Mobile Hairdresser
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of other projects and initiatives
involving people who work on
preserving and bringing to life the
town’s past.
We were founding members of Radnor Street Cemetery
the Swindon and District History
Network, which is run by Local scene, inviting them to put on
Studies staff at the Central Library displays in and around the cemetery
and involves many local history chapel on the day, we were
groups and individual researchers delighted that many of them agreed
and historians from across the town to attend. So if you have a query
and beyond. about or an interest in local history,
We also sit on Swindon Borough this is a rare chance to come
Council’s Heritage Board, which along and tap into the combined
meets quarterly to consider knowledge of experts in the field.
strategic and long-term issues It’s also a good opportunity
relating to the town’s heritage. to share information with the
This year we are especially proud individuals and groups who are
to be represented on the organising taking part, whose areas of interest
committee of Swindon 175, and, range from football to photography
as part of the celebrations, we and family history to archaeology.
are staging the Swindon Heritage So if we don’t know the answers
History Day at Radnor Street to your questions, we can put you in
Cemetery from 10am to 4pm on touch with somebody who does.
Sunday, July 10. The history day also includes
The plan has always been for guided walks around the cemetery
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We already run monthly guided When we founded Swindon
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the spring, summer and autumn, work of local historians, and while
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