WHSmith celebrates its 225 th anniversary year and pledges to raise £2 million for charity This year marks the 225 th anniversary of one of the world’s oldest retailers WHSmith. With its Head Office in Swindon, the firm is pledging to raise £2 million to be donated across three charities voted for by WHSmith employees: […]
Stephanie Millward starts WHSmith Race for Life. Read More »
Hundreds of ladies in all sorts of costumes took part in the Cancer Research UK Mud Run in Lydiard Park. Gallery:
Cancer Research UK Race for life – Mud Run Read More »
The £2million refurbished office space in Swindon town centre, formerly known as Tricentre 3, 3 Newbridge Square which is part of the instantly recognisable white office blocks between The Parade and Swindon’s railway station has officially been re-opened. The refurbishment undertaken by FI-REM, which also owns and manages The Brunel Centre, offers between 1,194 –
Offices with a view. Tricentre 3 re-opened. Read More »
IRVING FINKEL – on the world’s oldest way of writing Cuneiform script, on tablets of clay, traces its roots back to 3,200 BC when, for the first time ever, someone came up with the idea of writing! The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could survive
IRVING FINKEL – on the world’s oldest way of writing at Swindon Festival of Literature Read More »
ELIZABETH ST JOHN – on loyalty, family bonds, love, and betrayal in the decadent Stuart Court. What was life like for Lucy St John, a beautiful orphaned girl of English high society in the early days of the rule of James 1, times of glittering pageantry and cutthroat ambition, when the most dangerous thing one
Elizebeth St. John visits her ancestral home at Lydiard Park. Read More »
HILARY BRADT – an illustrated talk on the reluctant solo traveller. What does travel mean to you? Why do we do it? Have you ever been a reluctant solo traveller? Or have you stayed at home when a partner or companion dropped out, but cursed your lack of courage? Author, editor, and publisher of numerous
Hilary Bradt at the Swindon Festival of Literature Read More »
A picture gallery from the 2017 Swindon Festival of Literature Poetry Slam. Gallery:
Swindon Festival of Literature Poetry Slam Read More »
Tadpole Garden Village allotments and a play area was opened with a community gathering a ribbon cutting and an Easter Egg hunt. There was even a chance to plant some Sunflowers too. The event celebrated the opening of allotments and play parks at Crest Nicholson’s Tadpole Garden Village. The area will provide a safe green
New allotments & play area for Tadpole Garden Village Read More »
Swindon Station had a retro moment yesterday as platform 3 was transformed into what could be a film set, when Royal Scot stopped for 10 minutes, as part of its tour round the south of England. The recently rebuilt loco, a challenger to the GWR Kings superiority, was on its way back to Horsham from
Retro visit by the Royal Scot. Read More »
I was hunting down some negatives for the next feature in the Swindon Heritage Magazine when I came across a sheet marked Katherine Thomas on DMJ. and scribbled was the add “American music star returns home”. With a bit of help from Darrel Moody at the Central Library Local Studies department we uncovered an article
The Great Kat is from Swindon. Read More »
