This section of the site is provided in partnership with The Swindon Society and The Richard Jefferies Society. It enables you to see how the surrounding area used to look and learn more about your town. We are adding value by providing a current photograph taken as far as possible from the same position. The project involves a fair bit of detective work, so if you can add or correct information, please get in touch. This is your site, so if you would like to get involved in extending this project, please let us know.
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| Thomas Street, Rodbourne, King George V and Queen Mary, Jubilee, 1935 |
Thomas Street during celebarations for King George V and Queen Mary, Jubilee, 1935. The houses to the right of the picture are now Avenel Court, sheltered flats for the elderly, named after Robert and Christine Avenel, the first recorded residents of Even Swindon in the year 1313. |
June 1, 1935 |
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| Thomas Street, Rodbourne, Aeroplane accident, 1924 |
Mrs Leighfield and her daughter with a fragment of aircraft which fell off into their garden. The aircraft was advertising the Daily Mail. c 1924/5. |
June 1, 1924 |
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| Theobald Street, Percy Williams, 1932 |
Percy williams of Theobald Street who, after serving an apprenticeship at the GWR Railway Works, became a sea-going engineer with the Blue Star line. He enlisted in the British Battalion of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil war and was killed in Spain in March 1938. (date of picture estimated). |
June 1, 1932 |
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| The Town Hall, Regent Circus 1910 |
The Town Hall in Regent Circus with the Baptist Tabernacle on the right. The tabernacle was dismantled in the seventies and much of it now lies in a field, there are recurring plans to reassemble it. The Town Hall opened on the 2nd October 1891 by the marquis of Bath as the 'new public offices building'. |
July 1, 1910 |
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| The Planks, Girl Guides meeting, 1933 |
A photograph of local Girl Guides meeting at The Planks, Old Town in 1933. |
June 1, 1933 |
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