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The charter amalgamated Old and New Swindon into one town (population 45,006 in 1901), [1] enabling the pooling of resources from the two authorities. This provided enough money to open an electrical power station in 1903 on land bought by the new council at Lower Eastcott Farm (now located in Corporation Street).
The Old Town Hall, also known as The Locarno or Locarno Ballroom, [1] is a former municipal building of 1854 in the High Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building . [ 2 ]
Swindon Town station was heavily used in early years, but increasingly suffered from the concentration of traffic at the main GWR station as the focus of the town shifted away from the Old Town area to the newer parts that developed around the GWR station and the railway works there. Passenger and goods traffic on the M&SWJR fell very steeply ...
The Swindon, Marlborough & Andover had planned to tunnel under the hill on which Swindon's Old Town stands but the money ran out and the railway ran into Swindon Town railway station, off Devizes Road in the Old Town, skirting the new town to the west, intersecting with the GWR at Rushey Platt and heading north for Cirencester, Cheltenham and ...
By 1890, the New Swindon Local Board had plans to build their new public offices in what is now Regent Circus. [2] 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]
In 1849, Old Swindon petitioned unsuccessfully to be given a Local Board under the Public Health Act 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63), but the town remained a civil parish for a further fifteen years. In 1864, following the possibility of Swindon and Highworth being merged, the Local Government Act 1858 was applied to both New and Old Swindon, with ...
Apsley House. Apsley House is a 19th-century house in Swindon, England, standing on the north side of Bath Road in what is now known as the Old Town. [1]It was built c.1830–1840 and faced in ashlar Bath stone, and has a shallow porch over the central entrance, in the style of a Doric portico. [2]
The first borough of Swindon was a municipal borough, created in 1900 as a merger of the two urban districts of Old Swindon and New Swindon. [2]In 1974 the borough of Thamesdown was created under the Local Government Act 1972.