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LINK No. 89 August 1989 . Circulation 10,000
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W. Swindon Health Services under threat A local councillor is worried that Health Visitors, District Nurses and Midwives will be thrown out of their offices in West Swindon. The lease for three houses at 4 - 6 Deerhurst Way from Thamesdown. Borough Council has now expired and it proposes to reclaim the properties and return them to use as much needed council houses. The Swindon Health Authority has used the houses as a base for primary health care workers since 1977, in the absence of a permanent health centre to serve the area. In addition to being a local base for health service staff, the ground floor of the houses are used for baby clinics, ante-natal classes, immunisation sessions and a point for receiving health advice.
Thamesdown councillor Tony Free, who represents Toothill, Westlea and Shaw, said in an exclusive comment to The Link, "I am determined that the only centre for primary health care servingthe 30,000 peopleof West Swindon is maintained until the Health Centre is built next to the Link Centre. "I will be calling a meeting between Thamesdown's Housing Department and the Health Authority to reslove the problem. I understand the desperate need for council housing, but the already bulging population of West Swindon must have good health care. Some parts like Shaw and Sparcells are very isolated. It's essential that the health workers have a local base." New health facilities - see page 23.
Saitway School opens
Freshbrook's pub looks for a new name Link Magazine readers are being given the chance to name a pub - for the second time. Whitbread Severn Inns are spending ÂŁ250,000 on the re-development of The Cornflower at Freshbrook Village Centre. Work has already started to turn It Into a traditional friendly Right: Making a break for it. A play horse from The Cornflower pub garden falls at the first fence.
Inn which meets the needs of the local community. The Link ran a competition on behalf of Whitbread in mid-1982 to find a name for the pub before it opened the first time around. With such a major re-furbishment underway, the owners are looking for a new name to go with the new Image. Turn to page 6 to fill in and return the suggetion form. You could win a meal for four and a case of wine.
West Swindon's seventh primary school was opened on 6 July by The Mayor of Thamesdown, Councillor Ken Savage. Children from Salt Way presented dances, music, movement and poetry to an audiance of dignatories and parents. Above, Jodie Milner and Charlotte Smart presentthe Mayoress with a welcoming bouquet. On page 9, Zosia Durniat tells the story of an eighteenth century salt worker.