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Swindon as reported in 1830 was still a quiet, market town – Swindon is a market town in the hundred of Kingsbridge, eighty miles from London, thirty-eight from Salisbury, nineteen from Devizes, and eleven from Marlborough; pleasantly seated on the banks of the Wilts and Berks canal, by which navigation the trade of this place is much ...
Swindon was a small market town, mainly for barter trade, until roughly 1848. This original market area is on top of the hill in central Swindon, now known as Old Town. [19] The Industrial Revolution was responsible for an acceleration of Swindon's growth.
The Swindon Art Gallery collection was established in 1944 by a local benefactor, H. J. P. Bomford, through a significant donation of artworks. [1] Until June 2021 it was displayed in Apsley House, a 19th-century former house [2] on the corner of Bath Road and Victoria Road in Swindon's Old Town, [3] but had to leave when Swindon Borough Council decided in the summer of 2021 that the building ...
The Town Gardens is a public park and gardens in Old Town, Swindon, England. The park and several of its structures are Grade II listed. [1] The park is owned by Swindon Borough Council. In 2018 the park was transferred to South Swindon Parish Council on a 99 year lease, and the parish is now responsible for operating and maintaining the park.
On 13 July 2013, MacDonald left Swindon Town by mutual consent, only three weeks before the start of the 2013–14 season and only five months after taking the Swindon job. In the 2014–15 season, Swindon reached the League One Play-off final again where they lost 4–0 to Preston [ 31 ] after a season in which they were competing for ...
The town hall was designed by Sampson Sage and E Robertson in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone by a local builder, George Major, [4] and was completed in 1854. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] The main frontage has five bays separated by full-height Tuscan order pilasters , with arched windows on the ground floor, casement windows on the first floor ...
This location, halfway between the new Railway Village and the Old Town, was thought by some to be "both psychologically and strategically an excellent position for the new town to establish a landmark building". [3] The site was acquired from Colonel William Vilett Rolleston, owner of the Old Manor House in the Market Square. [4] [5]
The origin of the Anglo-Italian League Cup (also known as the Anglo-Italian Cup Winners' Cup [1] and billed on the match programme as the International League Cup Winners' Cup) was to reward Swindon Town with European football in lieu of their ineligibility for the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup following their victory in the 1968–69 League Cup, beating Arsenal in the final.