Air Ambulance to get first Bell 429 to operate as an air ambulance in the UK. But in 1998 the Police and Ambulance got together and took delivery of a new Boeing Explorer Helicopter which was the first to be seen in the UK. The chopper, which is famed for having no tail rota, was […]
First with new kit again. They did it in 1998 too. Read More »
Professional Lewis Collins, who passed away on Wednesday after a long battle with cancer, passed through Swindon to open the Rapsody store in the Brunel Centre on the 28th March 1984. At this time he had just finished the professionals series of programmes and was about to appear in the film, Who Dares Wins. I
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Building has appeared on the Old Swindon College site. It is part of the new Cinema and Supermarket complex that forms part of the Swindon regeneration programme.
Looking through the archive we discovered a set of negatives that is related to the film Rush that is released shortly. F1 driving champion James Hunt married local girl Sarah Lomax at Marlborough Registrar Office in the famous High Street. Gallery:
Film Rush – James Hunt wedding on 17th Dec 1983 in Marlborough Read More »
Margaret Thatcher visits Princess Margaret Hospital to see the Hungerford shooting survivors 0n 20th August 1987. SPONSOR A GALLERY OR PAGE. Contact richard@calyxpix.com Gallery:
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Diana Dors, the sixties icon of Swindon still has a presence in the town, albeit in bronze. At the Cinema complex at Shaw Ridge there stands a statue to the Swindon Girl, Diana Fluck, from Marlborough Road in old Town. It arrived standing upright on the bed of a lorry and was hoisted into position
The day Diana Dors came to West Swindon. Read More »
Swindon’s cable TV was the among, if not the first in the country to bring television to the home via a cable network. To mark this Radio Rentals (Thorn EMI,) whose HQ was in Percy Street Rodbourne, opened their TV museum there. The museum was dedicated to John Logie Baird who is regarded as the
We had an internationally famous TV Museum open in 1983 Read More »
Its funny how thing happen, events converge to create a story. I was looking through a pile of very 0ld negatives that are before my catalogue starts and found a sheet of 35mm black and white images that I am sure that many people will find interesting. A few months ago the voluntary sector celebrated
Unveiling of a mural that’s no longer there. Read More »
Keith Chegwin will be the star in his third Wyvern Theatre pantomime, this December. But Keith knows the town well from his early days in entertainment and television. In his twenties, as a presenter of BBC 1 Saturday morning children’s show The Multi-Coloured Swap Shop with Noel Edmonds and Maggie Philbin, the team did an
Were you at the Swap Shop at Coate in the late 70ies??? Read More »
Swindon Link played host to Olympic champion Robin Cousins back in 1985.
Forget the 2012 Olympics Gold Medal Winner on town in 1985 Read More »
