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Your experiences there.
How it used to be.
How it is now.
Anyone live(d) there?
I remember in the 80s that you looked out of place if you walked through there and were under 65.
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jayohaitchenn
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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 07:48:27 » |
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I live pretty much opposite in Tennyson Street. Like all of the town centre it's not particularly nice these days. Hopefully Audrey's son can do something with the Mechanics institute, the area could do with a boost.
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 08:39:56 » |
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Jay - you don't live in 33 do you? as it was my grandparents house
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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 09:17:44 » |
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I pulled a bird once whilst in Kaos. She lived in the railway village. Bonus!
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If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit...
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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 09:40:44 » |
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I live pretty much opposite in Tennyson Street. Like all of the town centre it's not particularly nice these days. Hopefully Audrey's son can do something with the Mechanics institute, the area could do with a boost.
The problem for years has been the respective owners of the building. They bought it with the caveat they renovated the building. Obviously this was never done, hence the building is now run by the Trust. The plan is to convert it into a kind of community retail units of specialist little shops and a small community cinema. Of course, the fecking Council are next to useless. |
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 11:11:25 » |
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Your experiences there.
How it used to be.
How it is now.
Anyone live(d) there?
I remember in the 80s that you looked out of place if you walked through there and were under 65.
My grandfather lived there with my father when he was a nipper, when they moved up from the Somerset coalfield. It was proper New Swindon, heart of the community. It had everything you could want.....hospital, Turkish baths, library and theatre in the Mechanics, church, pubs for those inclined as temperance was quite strong, the Park for fetes etc, and Co-Ops Even in the early 60's if you wanted to take a bus to Milton Road baths, you asked for the Centre as many buses came and went from by the hospital. By the mid 80's when the Tories closed down the Works, many of the traditional residents were getting long in the tooth, at which point SBC took the decision to let out the houses to junkies and chavs etc, and it's been downhill since. |
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jayohaitchenn
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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 11:18:13 » |
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Jay - you don't live in 33 do you? as it was my grandparents house
No, but not far off |
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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 17:28:26 » |
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mate of mine used to live in 29
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« Reply #8 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 17:30:01 » |
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SBC took the decision to let out the houses to junkies and chavs etc, and it's been downhill since.
That's no way to talk about jayo  |
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jayohaitchenn
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« Reply #9 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 17:44:49 » |
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I may be a junkie and a chav, but i'm not a peasant. I own my home.
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Combe Down
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« Reply #10 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 19:10:02 » |
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How about the current and past pubs in the Village? The Glue Pot is a decent pub if you don't like lager. The Bakers was a wonderful pub full of character(s). The Cricketers has a fantastic history as a Bikers' pub, a gay pub but not sure what it's clientele is like now. Are there any other lost pubs from the Village?
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« Reply #11 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 19:10:22 » |
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Is there still a house that's been kept exactly like the old days? like a museum? I remember going there on a school trip
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« Reply #12 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 20:39:02 » |
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Hid in a back garden in the Village,after a few of us got chased by a minibus full of Pompey.
Must have been late 70s,as it was a Leyland Sherpa.
As an aside,went to Beerex at the Mechanics institute.Still got the 1/2 pint glass.
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« Reply #13 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 21:18:11 » |
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Sort the Mechanics, and the Railway Village will be transform. I know there are some dedicated folks doing their best to get it restored, but progress has painfully not just for years, but decades. I have my doubts that there's going to be a happy ending.
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« Reply #14 on: Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 21:23:22 » |
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Is there still a house that's been kept exactly like the old days? like a museum? I remember going there on a school trip
There was and still is, sort of. A lot of it is stored away. I was going to make a video there a couple of years back and they wanted £100 to take the dust covers off everything and put it all on display. Like you I remember visiting it on a school trip. |
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