I’ve always rather liked the Spectrum building or the Renault building as it tends to be referred to, even though the car company moved out of it some years ago.
Swindon and iconic buildings
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No 8: The Magic Roundabout Traffic System
Yes! The Magic Roundabout traffic system. As featured heavily in Secret Swindon.
It’s a bit like Marmite. But whether you love it, hate it or are indifferent to it you certainly can’t ignore it.
A Flavour of Historic Highworth
A Flavour of Historic Highworth – the Highworth Hotel, the Ice House and more.
WSSW Part 5: Nexus at Freshbrook
In part 4 of this series my companion and myself visited ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ which is in The Prinnels, West Swindon. Now we move onto WSSW Part 5: Nexus at Freshbrook.
I explained about spending the last twenty years seeing but not really ‘noticing’ that sculpture from the bus and never realising the significance of it – which is a bit shameful when you think of it. Well I’m sorry to say that my chagrin doesn’t end there. Oh dear me no! The situation with this next one is very similar I’m sorry to say. Even as my friend and I were reading the ‘bumph’ about this sculpture I still wasn’t making the connection – and ‘connection’ is actually very apposite indeed. It was only as we approached Freshbrook that I realized what we were going to. Doh!
WSSW Part 3: White Horse Pacified
Welcome to part 3 in a series (I’m not sure how many the series will consist of cos I’m making it up as I go along) about the West Swindon sculpture walk – in which we encounter White Horse Pacified.
Kiln Park West Swindon
Tree with tiles round - West Swindon 28th September 2014: Old post updated Kiln Park It's interesting how, since starting this blog, I've begun noticing things more. Apropos the subject of this post it's less a case of noticing and more a case of paying some actual...
WSSW Part 2: How the Mighty Fall
In the first post of this series I wrote about the statue of Diana Dors outside the cinema at Shaw Ridge. The next statue my friend and I examined on the walk was ‘How the Mighty Fall’.
Like all the sculptures on this trail it was installed in the mid-late 1980s when the area was being developed.
Swindon Viewpoint Community Media
Smile please: You're on Candid Camera - with Swindon Viewpoint Community Media A few lines from their website can explain better than I what Swindon Viewpoint is all about - https://viewpointcommunitymedia.org.uk/services/swindon-viewpoint/: 'Swindon Viewpoint is...
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