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« Reply #60 on: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 21:16:32 » |
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What a nice building! Was that where pizza hut is now? What happened to it?
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #61 on: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 21:22:19 » |
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What a nice building! Was that where pizza hut is now? What happened to it?
Burnt down in a fire...that's teh block La Dolce Vita etc...you can make out where The Khyber is down to Maryla's shop...still there. |
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« Reply #62 on: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 21:30:30 » |
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What a shame! I've seen lots of old pictures but i had never seen that before. I love learning about swindon history.
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« Reply #63 on: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 21:31:27 » |
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Don't fancy the Merlin and a load of Leeds fans signing that crap marching on together bullshite. The County was really good before the Leeds game last season but also quite busy/ Great atmosphere in there though.
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #64 on: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 21:40:24 » |
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What a shame! I've seen lots of old pictures but i had never seen that before. I love learning about swindon history.
Me too...I particularly like the collections of old photos, that get published periodically by the Swindon Society....there's some very fine examples in the Bath Road Museum, by a fella called Brian Bridgeman...who just went round snapping ordinary stuff. Apparently there are 1000's but nowhere to display them. A place that fascinated me as a kid was Moredon Power Station, which had a cooling tower...like Didcot. Now not a trace, not sure I've even seen a photo of it. |
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« Reply #65 on: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 08:02:54 » |
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Swindon looked pretty amazing in the old photo's shame it seems to have suffered from the 1950's, 60's and 70's architects, or whoever is to blame for the many eyesores around town.
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« Reply #66 on: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 10:23:20 » |
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That building does look ace. cant believe they replaced it with the most bland generic building possible.
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« Reply #67 on: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 10:39:21 » |
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when will you be gracing us with presence Mr Todd
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #68 on: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 17:11:23 » |
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Swindon looked pretty amazing in the old photo's shame it seems to have suffered from the 1950's, 60's and 70's architects, or whoever is to blame for the many eyesores around town.
Certainly the planners and architects responsible for many of Swindon's poorer buildings, should be put up against a wall and shot. Nevertheless, there is an element that it can take a bit of time for buildings to be appreciated, and sometimes it only happens when they've gone. |
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« Reply #69 on: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 21:07:52 » |
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A place that fascinated me as a kid was Moredon Power Station, which had a cooling tower...like Didcot. Now not a trace, not sure I've even seen a photo of it.
Is this it??? http://www.swindonsotherrailway.co.uk/mpsrl.html[url width=700 height=509]http://www.swindonsotherrailway.co.uk/mpsrl4.jpg[/url] I have to say I live near to Moredon and didn't know of the power station or the connecting railway. |
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« Reply #70 on: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 21:17:35 » |
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The power station is still there isnt it, just up the brook from hreod?
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« Reply #71 on: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 21:26:55 » |
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Yep, that's it Batch....and a damn fine photo it is. It had the necessary combo of a railway to bring up the coal from Wales and a river to provide water for cooling.
I like a bit of heavy industry.
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« Reply #72 on: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 21:44:11 » |
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The site of the power station is now Pembroke Park I think. I wouldn't grow veg in the garden if I lived there.
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« Reply #73 on: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 21:57:51 » |
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The site of the power station is now Pembroke Park I think. I wouldn't grow veg in the garden if I lived there.
I admit to being a mite surprised when houses sprung up on that site. Thinking about it though electricity generating is in fact quite clean....assuming it's not nuclear. |
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« Reply #74 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 07:52:14 » |
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Great photo.
I saw plans years ago for the completion of the northern orbital road (I don't know its real name), which was going to loop round from the northern development and join up with the square of roundabouts on the Great Western Way near Cheney Manor. (I've been out of Swindon a few years now, so local knowledge & place names a little rusty...sorry). I wonder whether its contamination from the old power station that's caused the delay - or just a failure to invest in infrastructure.
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