Wednesday, April 13, 2011

“well it was a nice day for a walk”

i seem to find myself doing more walking nowadays and enjoying it funny how you can live in a town and just drive everywhere you do miss a lot, so yesterday poppy wanted to have a look around the outlet village 002here, “well it was a nice day for a walk” so off we set, one thing about west Swindon is it was well landscaped as you can see just a five minute walk from mine, then cross a duel carriageway and you start to see Swindon's odd history,  Swindon began as a Saxon village. The name Swindon is derived from the Saxon words swine dun meaning pig hill, it’s not surprising then really to find this

005       at the end of Radcliff street, just turn about ninety degree's with the camera and take this one, 007after a good walk to the top of the road all the history start’s again with the old railway works now the outlet village, but first this “Ron's store’s”009this hardware store seems to have always been here and worth a look in if passing, you name it he sell’s it “even fork handle’s” it may even date’s back to Saxon times and was started by someone called Ron the terrible, 014and so at last the old railway work’s/outlet village and a 012window shopping orgasm for poppy, not really my thing  lable’s but poppy loved it, all those hand bag’s and glad rag’s, you can't take it away from Mc’arthur glen they did do a good job of keeping the feeling of what the old railway work’s that closed in 1986 was all about, i do find it funny that at one point a third of the male population of Swindon worked there, i wonder if after a day loading furnaces, riveting, and welding did they all meet up after at the workingman’s club with their Gucci shoe’s and handbag’s,

022   what’s left of this old work’s is well worth a look at, will put all the photo’s on my the real Swindon “my hometown” photo album,

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