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Swindon will resound with poetry this month
Poetry column by Poetry Swindon’s Also at Jefferies on Friday
Maurice Spillane 7 October there’s the Quiet
Compere which should be a great 01793-688869
Come along to one performance and I recommend it as
of the biggest poetry a way into poetry. There will be an 16 Trevello Road, East Wichel, Swindon SN1 7BZ
festivals in the UK - open bar and bookshop.
right here in Swindon If you have young adults studying
this month. A’ Levels they should come along
Swindon Poetry Festival is a to hear Daljit Nagra on Saturday
fantastic 10-day programme with 8 October at 8pm in Swindon
poets coming from all over the UK. Arts Centre. He is on the A’ level
It takes place from 29 September curriculum. Daljit won the Forward
to 5 October and is followed by the Prize so we are delighted to have
Big Poetry Weekend from 6 October him along. He is a lovely person
to 9 October. and will be happy to chat. Here is
The first few days focus on Poetry an extract from one of his poems. I
in the Community. I know poetry personally love “saffron head-lolling
isn’t for everyone but I bet you smiles”:
have some gems yourself from
your school days. Come along and I am Sikh by birth, secular by
read one of them at Poems Aloud nature,
at 10am in Swindon Library on when has our Holy Book, composed
Thursday 29 September. by Sikh,
We will have Poetry and Music Hindu and Muslim, ever caused Award Winning Salon
as well and beer and wine at harm to Britain?
Savernake Street Social Club on May the wealth of our warmth
Friday 30 September, 7pm. I will be restore your sojourner
reading along with several others. train-gaze with a soft laugh at our
We did this last year and it was a saffron head-lolling smiles.
hoot.
Children’s Day is at Richard For the full programme of events
Jefferies Museum on Sunday 2 during the festival visit:
October, 11am until 4pm. www.poetryswindon.org www.jessicashairandbeauty.co.uk
Museum & Art Gallery could
incorporate famous stones
Valuation Day

opportunity

with
Thomas Plant
TV expert on Flog It!
The Antiques Road Trip
& Bargain Hunt

Hadrian Ellory-van Dekker, with Swindon Museum & Art Gallery Trust
trustees, chairman Robert Cox, left, and Lord Joel Joffe.
The dream of reusing the columns Beyond that, few other details
and pediment from the long since are available, other than his task
vanished Baptist Tabernacle that is to prepare a compelling bid to
stood in Regent Street for almost the Heritage Lottery Fund for a £12 Bring along your portable items for a FREE valuation
90 years could become a reality million grant. with Thomas, OR members of his team from Special Auction Services
if the proposed museum and art The tabernacle opened in 1886
gallery for the town centre is built and was demolished in 1978. The Monday 10th October, 10am to 3.30pm
opposite the Wyvern Theatre. dressed stone portico was sold Jury’s Inn, Fleming Way, Swindon SN1 2NG
Hadrian Ellory-van Dekker, the to a property developer but were
director of Swindon Museum & Art bought by Swindon Council in
Gallery Trust, revealed that a home 2007 to be used as the entrance Valuations are by appointment only.
of the stones could be found in the to the art gallery and museum To arrange a time, please call
design of the new building. proposed for the Villett Street 01635 580595 or contact us via
Speaking about the project at a redevelopment.
meeting of the Friends of Swindon However the world recession www.specialauctionservices.com
Museum & Art Gallery, he said: “It in 2009 killed that plan and the
would provide a point of continuity stones have been in store ever Special Auction Services
to the past in the new museum.” since.
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