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Talks at Swindon Museum & Art Gallery could incorporate famous stones
Central Library The dream of reusing the columns
and pediment from the long since
Thursday 6 October, 7.15pm
Birds: Myth, Lore & Legend vanished Baptist Tabernacle that
By re-telling the many legends, stood in Regent Street for almost 90
years could become a reality if the
beliefs, proverbs and predictions proposed museum and art gallery
associated with birds from many for the town centre is built opposite
nations, authors Rachel Warren
Chadd and Marianne Taylor bring the Wyvern Theatre.
Hadrian Ellory-van Dekker, the
into focus the close, and often director of Swindon Museum & Art
ancient, links between humans Gallery Trust, revealed that a home
and these remarkable feathered of the stones could be found in the
descendants of dinosaurs.
design of the new building.
Thursday 13 October, 7.15pm Speaking about the project at a
Jane Eyre: The Path of the Poor meeting of the Friends of Swindon
Orphan Child Hadrian Ellory-van Dekker, with Swindon Museum & Art Gallery Trust Museum & Art Gallery, he said: “It
Dr Keith Hooper gives an illustrated trustees, chairman Robert Cox, left, and Lord Joel Joffe. would provide a point of continuity
lecture that explores this highly Below, the tabernacle stones ready for reuse at Wroughton airfield to the past in the new museum.”
controversial, for its time, yet Beyond that, few other details
wonderful Charlotte Bronte novel. are available, other than his task
Beginning with an overview of the is to prepare a compelling bid to
author’s life and work, the lecture the Heritage Lottery Fund for a £12
will explore the themes and social million grant.
context of this revolutionary story The tabernacle opened in 1886
of an orphan girl who dared to and was demolished in 1978. The
determine her own destiny. dressed stone portico was sold to a
Dr Hooper will publish a property developer but were bought
commissioned biography of Charles by Swindon Council in 2007 to be
Dickens in 2017. used as the entrance to the art
Tickets at £2.50 (£1.50 library gallery and museum proposed for
members) are available from the the Villett Street redevelopment.
Help Desk on the ground floor at However the world recession in
the library, or on the door if space is 2009 killed that plan and the stones
still available. have been in store ever since.
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