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  • ‘Having a Robinson Crusoe in the Family’ by Graham Warmington

    Central Community Centre, SN1 5BG Central Community Centre, Emlyn Square, Swindon, United Kingdom

    This event is hosted by Wiltshire Family History Society at The Central Community Centre, Emlyn Square, SN1 5BG. Thinking of researching your family history – or need some help, then […]

  • ‘Swindon – This Is Swindon’ by Andy Binks

    Goddard Park School Welcombe Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

    This event is hosted by The Swindon Society. From its very beginnings the Society has attempted to record the social history of the area as shown by the camera since […]

  • ‘Why are we nostalgic about railways?’ by Philip Garrahan

    Central Community Centre, SN1 5BG Central Community Centre, Emlyn Square, Swindon, United Kingdom

    Philip Garrahan will contrast Swindon’s reputation for railway engineering with its important social history. It was once a complete company town, when the outside observer could be forgiven for thinking the GWR and Swindon were the same.   The new town was built on a greenfield site […]

    Free – £3.00

  • Why are we nostalgic about railways?

    ‘Why are we nostalgic about railways?’ by Philip Garrahan

    Central Community Centre, SN1 5BG Central Community Centre, Emlyn Square, Swindon, United Kingdom

    Philip Garrahan will contrast Swindon’s reputation for railway engineering with its important social history. It was once a complete company town. When the outside observer could be forgiven for thinking the GWR and Swindon were the same.  The new town was built on a greenfield […]

    Free – £3.00

  • ‘Collett Revisited’ by Graham Carter & Michael Roberts

    Central Community Centre, SN1 5BG Central Community Centre, Emlyn Square, Swindon, United Kingdom

    'Collett Revisited' New insights into the glorious career, extraordinary life and enduring legacy of the Great Western Railway engineer. An illustrated talk by Graham Carter and Michael Roberts Cost Swindon […]

    Free – £5.00

  • 200 Years of Britain's Railways in 14 Journeys

    ‘200 Years of Britain’s Railways in 14 Journeys’ by Sherin Aminossehe

    Central Community Centre, SN1 5BG Central Community Centre, Emlyn Square, Swindon, United Kingdom

    The world’s first public railway, the Stockton & Darlington Railway, opened in the northeast of England in 1825 and marked the start of rail travel in Britain and across the […]

  • Swindon Works at War

    ‘Swindon Works at War’ by Jack Hayward

    Central Community Centre, SN1 5BG Central Community Centre, Emlyn Square, Swindon, United Kingdom

    It is 80 years since the end of WW2, and 40 years since the closure of Swindon Railway Works. The Works contribution as a war factory was colossal, its achievements […]

    Free – £5.00

  • ‘The History Of Tarot’ by Michael Gray

    Central Community Centre, SN1 5BG Central Community Centre, Emlyn Square, Swindon, United Kingdom

    The History Of Tarot by Michael Gray - For centuries Tarot cards have been used for fortune telling believed to manifest secret knowledge handed down from ancient times. For some […]

    Free – £5.00

  • “Let’s Go Shopping” with John Stooke, is an illustrated history of those Swindon shops we have loved and lost, small businesses that made our Town Centre what it was.

    ‘Let’s Go Shopping’ by John Stooke

    Central Community Centre, SN1 5BG Central Community Centre, Emlyn Square, Swindon, United Kingdom

    Well known local historian and author John Stooke is fascinated by the way that retailing has changed in the last 20 years compared to what a little change there was […]

    Free – £5.00

  • ‘My Extraordinary Life’ by Jack Hayward

    The Bakers' 16 Emlyn Square, Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

    Jack Hayward is a 92 year old former railway office worker, historian and long time resident of Swindon’s Railway Village (since 1968). As a prominent local historian, he researches and speaks […]

    Free – £5.00