Posts about swindon’s buildings and architecture
[jetpack_subscription_form] The Spectrum Building My second favourite building, in Swindon, the David Murray John Tower being my number one, has to be the Spectrum Building – or the Renault Building as it still tends to be known. Built in 1981-82 to be a warehouse and distribution centre for vehicle
26th October 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] New images unveiled of proposed new museum and art gallery https://www.facebook.com/backthebidswindon/: Hello listeners I daresay you’ve seen this on social media already – that said it always happens that someone says, about whatever it might be, ‘I didn’t know that was happening’. I’m often astonished
14th October 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] Hello listeners This post is by way of a share of a post on the Swindon Civic Voice website. It’s a guest post by Swindon Civic Voice member and friend, Martin Newman about Swindon’s list of listed buildings. There’s an astonishing amount of them! Swindon contains 659
28th September [jetpack_subscription_form] Swindon Health Hydro on Historic England Blog A blog from Historic England featuring our very own Swindon Health Hydro: ‘Completed in 1891 for the Great Western Railway Medical Fund, Swindon’s Health Hydro played a big part in the formation of the National Health Service. It was paid
15th September 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] A Swindon Market History Doing some stuff for Swindon Civic Voice apropos of the demolition of the tented market and the proposed new development I came across this history of the tented market. NB: If you want to read the SCV submission to the council regarding the new
19th August 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] The David Murray John Tower Modernist lines stand proud on Swindon’s skyline Back in 1950, in his ‘Studies of Swindon’, John Betjeman wrote, apropos of architecture in Swindon, that there was ‘very little architecture in Swindon and a great deal of building’. He then went on to
12rh August 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] 7 Reasons to Switch on to Swindon Hello listeners. Here we are in August already. Aargh! Where is the year going to? Anyway – here we are with another guest post celebrating our lovely town. This time from Julie Nicholls. Julie lives in Old Walcot and
28th April 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] Via Buzzfeed: 24 Things That Aren’t Completely Awful About Swindon or Put another way: Great Things about Swindon Hello listeners. In case you’ve missed it on social media this post is mainly a share of a Buzzfeed article with the snappy title: 24 Things That Aren’t Completely
29th December 2016 [jetpack_subscription_form] The Health Hydro Whenever I walk into the Health Hydro I’m taken back in time to my childhood in Derbyshire. For in Cresswell we had a mini version of the Health Hydro in the form of a Victorian swimming baths. Ours wasn’t on the scale of
12th November 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] There are I know many of you out there that care about where you live. Many of you out there that care about Swindon. So here’s an initiative from the national civic voice movement that gives you the opportunity to show why you care about where
