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Volunteer delves into the archives for West schools A keen local historian has set herself the ambitious task of producing local history study programmes for every primary school in the area. =- sales details, deeds and conmaterial on Swindon's railway veyances, plus photographs history but I felt that the rural 1 including aerial pictures obw _; and agricultural history of the " tained from the NMRC. more recently developed hous(< Fran paid for the first two 4 ing areas was neglected. projects herself, with small "I have written the projects / contributions from relevant using a Victorian theme tocomschools. A Millennium Lot( plimentthe Key Stage 2 history tery Award this year has covcurriculum which asks ques ered the cost of research mations like what was it like for ' terials, photocopying and children living in Victorian Brit printing so that she can now ain, how did life change in our s present her research to locality in Victorian times and — schools without charge. what was it like to live here in Her current project is for ' the past? ttti►ti^^r Westlea School focusing on "The work is cross-curricular .___...__.._, and I make suggestions for activi- focussed on Wick Farm and the Mannington Farm and the Strange ties such as compile a graph corn- Clarke family, Brook Field School family history - tradesmen. bankparing Victorian and modern focussed on Lower Shaw Farm ers and leading lights in the nonnames, sketching and painting the and Shaw House occupied by the conformist church of Swindon old buildings, sewing a Victorian wealthy Tuckey family, and Upper and the more humble Pitt family sampler. report writing and per- Shaw Farm which was occupied who farmed the area for about 60 suasive writing, class debates and by the Sadler and Plummer fami- years Further projects are planned for li es for Shaw Ridge School. presentations." Fran has researched the history The work folders include copies Peatmoor, Toothill, Freshbrook, of the farm closest to each school of original documents for the chil- Windmill Hill and Oliver Tomkins and the history of the family who dren to use with an explanation of Primary Schools. lived there during the Victorian pe- how to extract information from Fran gets huge reward from carriod, and also a history of the parish them. She provides civil registra- rying out the research. "I love reof Lydiard Tregoze and Lydiard tion certificates (birth, marriage and searching the families, discoverdeath), census returns, pagesfrom ing how they all inter-married and Millicent which covered the area. Apart from Salt Way and Brook the parish registers of St Mary's, also the scandals. I think I've beHouse Farm, she has produced Lydiard Tregoze. excerpts from come a bit obsessive, apart from projects for Tregoze School Trade Directories, wills, property being quite nosy."
Working on her own initiative, Fran Bevan, /eft. from Middleleaze has written four projects and has another five to go. She was pictured in The Link in 2002 at Salt Way School. delivering her first work based on the history of nearby Brook House Farm, known to many as a pub and restaurant, but for many years a dairy farm. Fran said her interest in the history of West Swindon began while working at Lower Shaw Farm, a building dating back to the 18th Century. "There is a wealth of
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