Jubilation over a new hospital
	8:56am today
	WHEN Mrs Ambrose Goddard ceremoniously announced "I now declare this hospital to be open," she unlocked the door on not just a new hospital but free medical care for the people of Swindon, regardless of for whom they worked.

Living in fear of workhouse

8:29am Thursday 3rd July 2008

WHILE GWR employees enjoyed health care provision second to none, what was available to the agricultural labourer, the domestic servant and particularly the pauper?

	Plunging into better health
	7:39am Tue 1 Jul 08
	Accidents in the railway works were an everyday occurrence.

	Hopes fly high for Vulcan's return
	10:13am Fri 27 Jun 08
	HOPES are high that this year's Royal International Air Tattoo will see the return of a much loved aircraft.

Home is on your houses' history

10:19am Thursday 26th June 2008

WHO would live in a house like this?

Did the GWR pull a fast one?

10:19am Wednesday 25th June 2008

COUNCILLOR David Renard sent me a couple of photos he had taken on a visit to the Vale of Rheidol (VoR) Railway.

	The games we used to play
	9:25am Tue 24 Jun 08
	A MARLBOROUGH author has taken a hop, skip and a jump down memory lane.

	Tenant farmers in land wrangle
	9:32am Mon 23 Jun 08
	Toothill Farm has had many owners and occupiers during its long history and letters concerning an 18th century tenancy dispute have survived.

	Gamekeeper fell foul of poor law
	8:50am Thu 19 Jun 08
	THE old adage "it's not what you know, it's who you know" unfortunately didn't work in Richard Ody's favour when he fell down on his luck.

Give thanks for the steam giants

1:32pm Wednesday 18th June 2008

A THANKSGIVING service for the steam locomotive is to be celebrated.

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