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A Picture is only the start of the story
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A first selection of images drawn from the millions archived by the author during his career as freelance press photographer and owner of Calyx Picture agency. Based in Swindon, the images chronicle e...More Information
Another Picture Another Story
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The second instalment, of a projected three, cherry-picked from the millions of images the author has amassed as the owner of Swindon’s Calyx Picture Agency. Like its predecessor published earlier in ...More Information
In and Around Swindon Works
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In and Around Swindon Works covers further aspects of the famous manufacturing centre of the Great Western Railway during its heyday of 1930 to 1960. This is the second half of a detailed work begun w...More Information
Ken White Muralist and Painter
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Ken White’s career spans an impressive six decades. He is perhaps best known for his murals, sited in a wide variety of locations. Ken left school at the age of 15 and followed in his grandfather's an...More Information
Selected Poems by Alfred Williams
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Alfred Williams (1877-1930), dubbed ‘the hammerman poet’, was a self-taught Wiltshire genius, whose life was toil and poverty, but who deserves to live on and be remembered as a sensitive chronicler o...More Information
Swindon Steam
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In this book L. A. Summers investigates the facts behind the myths and mysteries using modern research and newly discovered information. What was life really like for railwaymen in the days of steam? ...More Information
Swindon Works 1930-60
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Swindon Works 1930 - 1960 is a fully revised and enlarged edition of Working at Swindon Works 1930 - 1960, first published in 2007. It describes various aspects of the famous railway works of the Grea...More Information
Swindon Works Apprentice in Steam
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Former Swindon apprentice Ken Gibbs remembers the sights, sounds, smells and work from the days of Great Western steam at this magnificent institution. This book recalls with fondness and nostalgia a ...More Information
The Archaeology of the Borough of Swindon
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The borough of Swindon embraces not only one of the largest towns in central southern England; it includes also large tracts of chalk downland and much of the upper Thames valley. The rapid pace of de...More Information
The Ladies of Lydiard
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In a history spanning a thousand years, the Lydiard estate has belonged to just five families. The men were adept at acquiring wealthy brides and spending their fortunes, while their wives were consig...More Information
The Swindon Book
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The story of Swindon, from the earliest times to the present day, is here encapsulated in an alphabetical compendium of people who have influenced its development, places that have given character to ...More Information