‘GWR Park: A focus for recreation and sport in Victorian and Edwardian times’ by Mary Thornton
Central Community Centre, SN1 5BG Central Community Centre, Emlyn Square, SwindonGWR's Railway Village, “New Swindon", was barely half-built and the Works still modest in extent when land was earmarked for a “park” in 1844. What does this tell us about the Company, its workers and their families, and prevailing Victorian values? And what were typical Victorian and Edwardian sporting and leisure activities anyway? Mary Thornton […]
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