The famous and infamous of Swindon – those that were either born here or have a strong association with the town.
August 2018 Blue Plaques in Swindon There are now a number of blue plaques in Swindon. The most recent being unveiled on June 16th, 2018 on Swindon Civic Day. The plaque was installed on the exterior of the Health Hydro – aka Milton Road Baths. Swindon Civic Voice: https://www.swindoncivicvoice.org.uk Here’s
1st September 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] First things first listeners: how ON EARTH did it get to be September already?! Now … In the early days of this blog – in the summer of 2013 even – I wrote a post about the sculpture of the Great Blondinis. If you’ve no idea
31st August 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] Meeting a Born again Swindonian Hello listeners. Well this is a nice thing. A week or so ago, a new feature writer on the Swindon Advertiser Tweeted out a photo taken on The Lawns. Being a helpful sort of a person – and yes, okay, ‘flog
30th August 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] Pew here for a hand-turned pen with a Christ Church connection Swindon pen-maker Simon Webb, has a well-established reputation for fashioning exquisite hand-made pens from wood connected to aspects of Swindon’s history. The latest piece of piece of wood to enter his workshop is a section
7th July 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] I do like share a bit of good news on this blog listeners. And this is certainly that. Now if it were left to me I’d have a place in Swindon’s art collection for dozens of Swindon artists. But until that’s possible it’s great that, in
20 January 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] The Mural Men: Ken White and David Bent I am the mural man, I come from far away and I can paint – yes I can paint. What can you paint – I can paint murals! ‘It’s a small world’. A cliché? Yup. But true. And
14th January 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] Diana Dors gets a blue plaque ‘I’m the kind of girl that things naturally happen to. When they don’t, I give them a push’. Well! It’s not every day you see a candy pink Cadillac in Old Town that’s for sure. How come? The occasion of
3rd September 2016 [jetpack_subscription_form] David Bent, Russell-Cotes and a bender round Bournemouth Well I say bender. It was more a sedate meander with Carole Bent (the fabulous wife 😉 ) around the wonderful Russell-Cotes museum, David’s exhibition there and beautiful Bournemouth on the best, brilliantly sunny and perfect day. David
13th April 201 Greetings listeners! [jetpack_subscription_form] I recently published a post featuring five songs/music videos with a Swindon connection – a follow up to which is coming soon. In that five I included two songs by a talented young Swindon man by the name of Hitesh Mistry. But this post is
Friday 8th April 2016 [jetpack_subscription_form] Hello lovely listeners This here is a little post to showcase the art work of Gill Thomas – a lovely friend of mine. And an actual born-Swindonian to boot! She’s travelled the world a bit to live and work but is now happily settled back
