Festival of Literature slams poetry for 20th year.
Swindon Festival of literature is fast becoming the festival to attend for poetry slams, whether young or old. Pics from Youth Slam:
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Thamesdown Transport name buses.
Thamesdown Transport took over the front of STEAM Museum to name four buses as the famous Swindon hooter sounded. The buses carried the destination board of Swindon 175. The naming was part of the Swindon 175 celebrations. Gallery.
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Let’s get dancing with Aaron Renfree
Top dance instructor and choreographer Aaron Renfree undertook a children’s introductory dance class at Swindon Academy as part of the Matt Fiddes Street Dance School. Gallery:
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Hair raising New College fashion show.
Students at Swindon’s New College let imagination take over for the fashion show, with some hair raising exhibits. One even donating their locks to The Little Princess Trust. The Little Princess Trust provides real hair wigs to boys and girls across the UK and Ireland that have sadly lost their own hair through cancer treatment.
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Winners dance with Aaron Renfree
Pupils at Rodbourne Cheney Primary School are off to the National School Dance Championships to be held in Birmingham on the 11th of July with a little help from Hollywood dance instructor Aaron Renfree. Aaron, former S Club 8 member and assistant choreographer on the X Factor Live Tours (2009/2010) will spend time working with the
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Culture in Swindon? Top London art exhibition at Museum.
SWINDON HOSTS MAJOR ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION An exhibition of work by Royal Academician Eileen Cooper, one of Britain’s most well-regarded and respected artists, will be held at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery from 20 April to 10 September. Entitled Hide and Seek – Drawings by Eileen Cooper RA, the exhibition opened at the Royal Academy
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Tank engine arrives back home.
A 2-8-0 tank engine made in Swindon has returned home for the first time for a guest running on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway. Copy from the Railway’s web site: http://www.swindon-cricklade-railway.org/future.php#4247 No 4247 was built at Swindon in 1916 as a member of Churchward’s 4200 class, 105 of which were produced between 1910 and 1923.
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Rifles wet march double time.
The Rifles carried out their Freedom of the Borough march through the town on Saturday during a cloud burst. Heavy rain didn’t stop the troupes marching in their distinctive double time rhythm. Taking the salute was the Mayor Ciir. Andrew Bennett and the Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire Mrs. Sarah Rose Troughton. Gallery:
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Immigration – The Modwines have arrived
With immigration high on the political agenda the arrival of the Modwines will give Swindon an integration headache, with their strange language and unearthly habits. With their base already firmly established in North Swindon, are the residents of this quiet part of town or indead North Wiltshire ready for what has descended upon them I
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A reflection on 30 years ago.
We have been celebrating 30 years with silence and monochrome memories. £30 years ago the Railworks shut, and the last shift departed and hooty stopped calling us to work. Just a small reminder of 26th March 1986: And the rather wet but colourful celebrations thirty years on.
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