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Swindon Letters

• Letter from Julie Hughes

  HAS anyone found a Burma Star Association badge in the street in Purton? One of our members lost his while walking between The Cedars and the war memorial on Remembrance Sunday November 8. It means a lot to him and he is very keen to be reunited with it. If anyone can help please contact me at Freshbrook Evangelical Church, Worsley Road, Freshbrook, Swindon SN5 8NU. Tel 01793 873050 or e-mail office@freshbrook.org JULIE HUGHES Office Manager Freshbrook Evangelical Church read more

• Letter from Roger Foord

  HAVING been a long term Town supporter - I now live in Hertfordshire - I have been researching information from the Advertiser for my cousin, also ex Swindonian, Terry Lloyd for his birthday from 1939. read more

• Letter from Ken Leon

  IN Emma Streatfield’s report on the burnt out bungalow at Barbury Castle, Saturday, Oct 31, Roger Hayes was right when he said Swindon Council cannot run a rural small holding. The Wilts County Council’s small holdings were started after the First World War for ex-servicemen. There were two at Ogbourne St George, one at Stratton St Margaret, one along the Wootton Bassett road and one at Barbury Castle. I’m sure there were a lot more but I can’t remember them. read more

• Letter from Allan Thipthorpe

  ONE of your readers recently wrote about the factories and record players made by the Garrard Engineering Group factories worldwide. Shame on you sir, you failed to mention the famous Garrard chiming clocks that were tested in a small workshop at 28 Marlborough Road. At one time in the 50s, as Hector Slade said we made the Rolls Royce of clocks in this factory. If this job is going to be done quicker but will not be as accurate. read more

• Letter from Mrs L Townsend

  I HOPE when they have finished in the town centre, that all the disruption will be worth it (I very much doubt it). read more

• Letter from Fred Sheppard

  PLEASE don’t get me wrong but there is never any mention about the Cyprus trouble in the 1950s, where 371 service personnel were killed by the guerrilla organization EOKA. read more

• Letter from John Hughes

  THIS morning I parked in the multi storey park adjoining House of Fraser. I checked the menu of prices before leaving the car park. It advised the charge was £1.20 for the first hour. On my return 20 minutes later I inserted my parking ticket and was charged £2. The same thing had happened to me last week. When I went to look for the attendant last week nobody was about. Today I found the attendant and asked why the difference in the charge. read more

• Letter from Paul J Warburton

  AS a regular frequenter of Old Town’s public houses and restaurants, I feel aggrieved to write to you concerning the decline to one of Swindon’s oldest areas. read more

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