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Purton was a small settlement to the west of Swindon.

Purton was a small settlement to the west of Swindon.

Swindon adopted the Public Libraries Act in 1942, and its first public library opened in McIlroy's departmental store in Regent Street the following year.

It was converted to a chapel for the Wesleyan Methodists by T S Lansdown of Swindon in 1869 - it could accommodate a congregation of 1,000.

It was developed from clay pits left over from old brickworks; it had formerly been the site of earthworks for an ill-founded attempt to excavate a tunnel through Swindon hill for the Swindon, Marlborough

It was known as the Crown until about 1810, when it was renamed in honour of the Goddard family, the lords of the manor of High Swindon.

In 1905 Swindon was a busy manufacturing town which owed its wealth and commercial rise almost exclusively to the railway age in general and the inspiration of Sir Daniel Gooch in particular, who

The original inn stood on the opposite side of the road, on the south- western corner of what is now the busy Oxford road into Swindon.

Swindon - 'swine down' or 'pig hill' - is Wiltshire's largest settlement; it grew from the two villages of Old and New Swindon of about 2,000 inhabitants in 1900 to its present size of about

These quarries had given Swindon an important industry long before the arrival of the GWR, for the stone was considered of excellent quality.

This is the New Town, the railway end of Swindon, quite close to the GWR works and their workers' housing. Note the tram lines, overhead wires and the boy with his hoop.

It provided the corn and cloth mills of Chalford with the means of finding new markets for their wares until this mode of transport was superseded by the Gloucester to Swindon railway line.

Looking North The main street of Old Swindon was first recorded in 1581.

The creator of the Queens Park concept was Maurice Williams, in his role as General Superintendent of Parks in Swindon.

The offices have suffered the same fate as the Town Hall - they have become too small for the intended council work with the massive expansion of Swindon.

The High Street is part of Old Swindon, which was the extent of the town before the railway arrived.

They were built of concrete blocks by the Swindon development company Bradleys on land that was formerly Fuller & Maylam's nursery.

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs. It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs. It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

According to the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, about 50 private houses were built in Bryans Close Road in the angle of North Street and Oxford Road in 1930.

As railway services contracted, a major rationalisation in the 1980s saw the unthinkable happen - the Swindon works closed.

Thousands of Cheltenham people entered the world at St Paul's maternity hospital in Swindon Road, which was founded in 1948.

Looking North-West This part of the village is known as Lower Wanborough, and lies 3 miles east of Swindon.

Looking North The Swindon and North Wilts Technical Institute building (now known as the College) is on the left.