Swindon Heritage Preservation

Pub Walk and Talk – Heritage Open Days 2024

Cricketers Cricketers, 14 Emlyn Square,, Swindon, United Kingdom

Connecting the pubs in Emlyn Square Join us for a guided tour of the Bakers and Cricketers in Emlyn Square the heart of Swindon's historic Railway Village. With the coming of the railway to Swindon in 1841 the locomotive repair Works and all that was to follow from 1843 there came an unprecedented explosion of […]

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Pub Walk and Talk – Heritage Open Days 2024

Cricketers Cricketers, 14 Emlyn Square,, Swindon, United Kingdom

Connecting the pubs in Emlyn Square Join us for a guided tour of the Bakers and Cricketers in Emlyn Square the heart of Swindon's historic Railway Village. With the coming of the railway to Swindon in 1841 the locomotive repair Works and all that was to follow from 1843 there came an unprecedented explosion of […]

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Connecting the Pubs in Emlyn Square by John Stooke

Cultural Heritage Institute Station Industrial Estate, Shed 11, London St,, Swindon, United Kingdom

Revisiting some of the alehouses that loomed large in the lives of the GWR community With the coming of the railway to Swindon in 1841, the locomotive repair Works and all that was to follow from 1843, there came an unprecedented explosion of the working population. “New Swindon” was first centred on GWR’s “factory village” […]

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