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TV personality shout-out for autistic teenager
AUTISTIC TEENAGER GETS SHOUT OUT FROM TV PERSONALITY FOR COPING DURING LOCKDOWN TV personality shout-out for autistic teenager. Autistic teenager Leon Watts couldn't have been more thrilled, when TV presenter Chris Tarrant gave him a mention. The nod came during a...
Thomas Turner Swindon Brick-maker
Last year, when writing Swindon in 50 Buildings, I simply had to include Thomas Turner’s villas on Drove Road.
Since the book came out I’ve had a mind to write a bit more on here about Thomas Turner Swindon brick-maker and his brick-making enterprise. But I never quite got round to it. Then not long back I saw a super blog by Swindon historian Frances Bevan so figured – why reinvent the wheel? I may as well feature that with some of my own photographs.
Big Hitters: Swindon Museum & Art Gallery
Big Hitters: Swindon Museum & Art Gallery.
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery has announced the launch of a virtual exhibition. You can view it through ArtUK, the online home of the nation’s public art collections.
Entitled ‘Big Hitters’, the works in the exhibition are the choices of the committee of the Friends of Swindon Museum and Art Gallery. They work to draw attention to some of the most important pieces in Swindon’s modern, British art collection.
Poor website contact details hamper businesses
Poor website contact details hamper businesses when their website contact details are letting them down.
That’s the view of leading website developer Martin Jarvis. Martin heads up Swindon-based DMJ Computer Services, specialising in Wordpress website design, hosting and aftercare.
Healthcare History and Swindon
This year, 2020, has another marker on it other than that created by Covid-19. For it’s also the 200thanniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. Thus, the WHO (the World Health Organisation) has designated 2020 as the first ever year of the nurse and the midwife. Cause enough for celebration on its own then. And it makes a good excuse to talk again about healthcare history and Swindon – it being a story not that well told. Still. And when it is told it tends not to be accurate.
Mrs A’s Indian Gentlemen
There’s been a lot of book talk on Born Again Swindonian of late. Well – we’re a very literary lot here in Swindon don’t y’know.
Swindon Theatre Group Gets Covid-19 Grant
Swindon Theatre Group Get Covid-19 Grant: Revolution Performing Arts – a company that provides classes to children and young people across Swindon gets a grant from the Arts Council England’s Covid 19 Emergency Fund.
Swindon Super Salad
Despite the fact that I’m less than fond of cooking, I don’t spend a lot of dosh on takeaways/brought in meals. Not as a rule. But with the Covid-19 lockdown situation curtailing any socialising, I’ve treated myself here and there. So, when the opportunity arose to try this Swindon super salad company I jumped at the chance.
Drumstick Pens Beat It
Simon Webb, is well-known as a maker of beautiful hand-turned writing implements that tell stories. He’s crafted pens from woods that include church pews, Isaac Newton’s apple tree, the Richard Jefferies’ mulberry tree, HMS Victory and more. But it’s arguable that his drumstick pens beat it all.
Jubilee Lake Nature Reserve RWB
Jubilee Lake Nature Reserve RWB - Royal Wotton Bassett 3rd June 2023 - update In the period since Lis wrote the post below about Jubilee Lake, my good friend Marilyn Trew has busied herself painting a map and information boards for a nature quiz trail that takes you...
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