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No. 113 August 1991 Circulation 10,500 it
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Rescue planned to prevent W. Swindon market closure A rescue package is being put together to keep the open air market going in the Link Centre coach park, thirteen months after it was launched. Tuesday 30 July was its last day under the terms of the licence held by the present operators and desperate efforts are being made to ensure that there is no break in service. The market has been poorly supported by traders and customers for months due to the recession and lack of promotion, but Toothill ward councillor Ricky Midwinter has been working to keep it going. "1 was very disappointed when I heard that the traders had been given notice. I'm in touch with Wendy Fair Markets and am hopeful they will run it from next week I'm very keen to see the market continue and develop at the weekends." A spokesman for Thamesdown Council's Estates Department said the initial twelve
months operating licence had come to an end and confirmed that Wendy Fair was being approached to run the market until the new tender
for the market contract was advertised. The mini-bus service for the housebound will continue as a condition of any future contract.
Your help wanted for Green Map The Link magazine promised a 'green map' of WestSwindon last year,butit never came about. We're having another go and we need your help. The idea is to print the street map of the area in grey and overprint the green open spaces, cycle/footways and locationof recycling points. We will also publish information about ways to recycle other materials in the town, i.e. oil, furniture, old fridges etc. The map will have limited value if you're trying to find your way round in a car, but if you're out for a walk or a bike ride, it will show how much greenery there is and how well linked
up the various parts of West Swindon are. This wifibe the first time this kind of map has been attempted in Swindon, so we need your help - the people who actually do the walking and cycling at present. Local councillor Bob Pixton, chair of Thamesdown's Environmental Forum, is coordinating the information to go on the map. He knows many of the foot/cycle routes, but not all. If you can suggest a route that should be included, give him a call on 695317. Or you can send him a sketch map at 12 Lambert Close, Freshbrook Closing date 20 August.
A taste of Victorian times Children from Salt Way School, Shaw donned Victorian costume on 11 July and attended the wedding of two of their classmates at St Mary's Church, Lydiard Park The wedding, conducted by local vicarandchairofgovernorRev Keith Boxall, was the cuhnination of a study topic on RuralLife in the Lydiards during Victorian times. The fifty eight to eleven year olds adopted the names of people on the parish register at the turn of the century. Farm workers, game keepers, milk maids and local dignatories attended the reenactment of the 1901 wedding of maidservant Maud Mary Twine and James Henry Embling, the farmer from nearby Wick Farm, played by Fiona Talbot and Andrew Quinn. The ceremony was followed by a parade, a picnic of Victorian food and traditional games and entertainment on the lawn with members of staff and parent suitably dressed for the occasion.
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