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Reggae Garden
The Reggae Garden festival in the Old Town Bowl. Pictures are from the first hour only....
Boris pays a flying visit to Nationwide.
Despite his airport plan being thrown out, Boris Johnson the Mayor of London played a flying visit to the Nationwide HQ in pipers Way Swindon. He amused the workers with a true to form Boris speech and met some apprentices. Boris isn’t the only high profile...
Ridgeway Farm show house now open.
Swindon is expanding into the countryside to the west, and Taylor Wimpy have open their show complex on the Ridgeway Farm development, ironically called Greenfields. In a throwback to its farming days, there were animals for the children to pet, and a hog roast, which...
The great Custard Pie fight.
The massed ranks of the cast of Bugsy Malone spilled out of the Wyvern Theatre, and flashed mobbed Wharf Green, to rehearse the finale of their Summer Youth Project production. Gallons of white gooey stuff flew across the square and even press cameras were not out of...
The plane now taxiing down the A419……
This Press release from Wiltshire Police says it all. Hope you didn’t get stuck in the traffic. Wiltshire Police are warning motorists to be aware of an abnormal load that will be moving through the county this weekend. At approximately 06:00 hours on Sunday...
Danny La Rue picture and dress at Wyvern.
As I sort through my archive little gems appear, pictures that throw up memories. Danny la Rue visited Swindon on 23rd June 1984, yes 30 years ago, to perform a one man show. During the time at the theatre he named a dressing room after himself. The images were taken...