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Swindon in 50 Buildings (Paperback)
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Swindon in 50 Buildings (Paperback)
Series: In 50 Buildings
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List price R484
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Discovery Miles 3 930
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Swindon's unusual history as a large industrial town in the heart
of Wiltshire has defined its townscape for the last 200 years. The
town is largely the creation of the nineteenth century, built
around the Great Western Railway's Works, but it nonetheless has
over 600 listed buildings, not to mention scheduled monuments and
three registered parks and gardens. In Swindon in 50 Buildings,
local author Angela Atkinson examines not only such well-known
Swindon landmarks and areas as the GWR Railway Village Conservation
Area and the Old Town, but also everyday buildings that reveal
aspects of Swindon's always fascinating and surprising story. It is
inevitable that many of the buildings in this book reflect
Swindon's great railway heritage, but others are small stories
written in brick and stone that tell of a time before the railway
came and changed everything. There are farmhouses now engulfed by
twentieth-century housing estates and grander buildings such as
Lydiard House. Rebuilt in the eighteenth century with a formal
park, the Lydiard estate served as both an American army camp and
prisoner of war camp during the Second World War. The story
continues to the present day with buildings designed by such
well-known architects as Hugh Casson, the creator of the Wyvern
Theatre, and Norman Foster, architect of the landmark and
award-winning Spectrum Building. It includes, too, the most recent
of Swindon's additions to the listed building's register - and it's
one that will surprise you.
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