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- Canal can still run through our town
- Cheque to help canal restoration
- My pal's gone!
- Echoes of the Past live on in street
- Wilts & Berks Canal Volunteers
- IWA Waterways Autumn 2009 Issue
- Wilts & Berks bridge opened
- Bridge over Canal almost complete
- Camilla booted up
- Wilts & Berks discovery
- Canal Bid still afloat
- Volunteer camps to save Bridge
- Drove Road Bridge is no longer standing
- Remaining canal bridge is on Shrivenham Road
- Amazing find - historic bridge uncovered
- Lost bridge is rediscovered
- Confirmation order - Highways Act
- Canal manager enjoyed the elegancies of life
- Full speed ahead as £50m canal gets vote of confidence
- New look for Canal Walk
- Town centre canal step closer
- Canal project gets the axe
- Leave the canal alone
- Fears over future of waterways in property sell-off
- Archives 2008
- Bluh Looks to Future
- Canal will not fix traffic problems
- Slough & Swindon in common
- The path beside the old canal
- Canal would be big boost to town
- Swans in procession
- SBC Temporary Closure of Subway
- Town facelift is going nowhere
- Team spruce up canal
- Big plans for Canal through Swindon
- Tara & Pip go toTemplar's Firs
- Don't shut this vital subway
- About the centre of Town
- Staff dig to restore canal
- Take a walk along canal
- Restoring canal for the community
- Canal will mean chaos for drivers
- Canal should go round Swindon
- Canal plan is madness
- Canal will give self-respect
- Canal divides us
- They won't touch canal trip
- Use Coate in Canal scheme
- We need much more than canal
- Canal trek boost funds
- Questions remain over canal
- Canal would give town big boost
- Canal money be better spent
- Water lot of uncertainity
- Country park on track
- Canal needs to go to vote
- Controversy
- Waterway to hold debate
- Canal plan floats my boat
- Slowboats in taking up trip
- Time to push the boat out
- Public to be polled on Canal Plan
- Come with us to see a waterway
- Let's have no more follies
- Canal route best way forward
- Canal not most important issue
- Town's dream enters stormy water
- Canals cherished in other towns
- Mixed views on plans for canal
- Canal plan does not hold water
- Go on, take the plunge
- Keep the canal in countryside
- Guarantees needed for canal plan
- Canal won't look like picture
- Canal's cash meant for transport
- Canal idea finds more supporters
- See for yourselves
- Canal will draw 'em in
- Get real over canal project
- Answers pose more questions
- Some dreams are just disruptive
- Waterway would benefit all of us
- Canal debate is still raging on
- Canal's questions are not answered
- Two-Thirds of you Don't want canal
- Underneath the Arches
- Still an Issue with with Canal
- In the Picture
- Answers are here for you
- Does scheme hold water ?
- A whine and water issue
- Those against canal are not just whingers
- Is it Tunnel vision again ?
- Why doesn't this idea float your boat ?
- Questions to be answered
- Let's get started on this great canal plan
- Canal idea will cause chaos for us in the town
- Tourist will flock to canal
- Tourists will flock to canal
- Quiz night in aid of canal
- Canal scheme will not float
- Tales of the canal bank
- Canal trust preparing for a hectic Year
- Why so slow over the town redevelopment
- Referendum call on Canal decision
- Far more urgent needs in this town than a canal
- Water waste of money a canal is
- Canal re-birth would give town a 'wow' factor
- A Showcase for New Canal Plan
- Archives 2007
- Proposed Canal will be 'dead water'
- Council to quit canal plan after lottery flop
- Canal will bring the 'Wow factor'
- 6 letters
- Water under the bridge
- Come & get on the right route for canal
- Volunteers flood in to revive canalcanal
- Canal would bring in £10m a year for us all
- We're not sunk yet
- Call for wide-beam link to Melksham
- Jams throw up canal doubts
- Put a railway plan on track
- Canal Plan is so vital
- Restorations needs helpers
- Golden Oldies
- It's crunch day on country way
- Don't let canal get in the way
- Restoring canal is a backward step
- Mayor's first rip in canoe
- Steam rail plan saved
- Water flawed idea, Swindon!
- In Your View - No speeding here
- Water Colours
- Town will lose it's soul
- A Canal for town is one step closer
- Canal delights for Swindon
- Plan for canal's revamp floated
- Navigating the canal from your armchair
- Thanks Frank, It's going to help us!
- Water to flow in the canal
- Canal idea will not be a success
- Work starts to unlock canal stretch
- In Your View - Roundhouse
- Reassurance
- Work underway on canal walls
- Whose idea is it anyway ?
- Our lost waterways
- There is a hundle on the way
- Take the waterway into town
- Water - great idea
- Council leader is pleased
- Golden lion stood watch over canal
- Builder who gave lion the final pat
- Archives 2006
- Days of Whale Bridges & Quiverring Bogs
- And the Band Played On
- Cricklade County Way - Have your views
- Swindon Concert Brass Band
- Scheme Banking on Jackpot
- Drive to Save Link at Latton Basin
- Canal could bring in £7m
- Research our Canal History
- Doubt anyone can save Canal
- Water Act of Lunacy
- Canals won't happen
- We haven't got the water
- Do not by-pass Canal project
- Councils should concentrate
- Green Link to Cricklade
- Restored Canal could provide boost
- Bluh aiming to unlock Canals
- Your Views - Messing about in boats
- Going with the flow for a new Canal
- Canals idea nice
- Your Views - nb Jubilee
- Possibilty for Canal restoration
- Narrowboat back in town
- Getting in deep water
- Your Views - Cygnet
- Beauty spot woos the wildlife- Coate Water
- Flood as canal bursts its banks
- Reborn Canal could let life flood back into town
- Clean up our Canal
- Canal appoints new Chief Executive
- Canal gets new look
- Canal once vital link
- Flood fears over restoration
- Hope for the future of Canal
- New volunteers boost Canal restoration work
- Archives 1920 - 1929
- Archives 1910 - 1919
- May 1911 What about the Canal
- May 1911 Swindon Town Council
- Oct 1913 Swindon's Derelict Canal
- May 1914 Scramble for Company Assets
- Sept 1913 Rural District Council
- May 1911 A defective bridge at Chippenham
- May 1913 Council meeting
- 1914 The Canal Bill
- Aug 1918 A Dream of a letter to the Editor
- Feb 1916 Towing Paths at South Marsden
- Nov 1913 Letter to the Editor
- April 1917 Canal & Coate Reservoir Committee
- February 1919 Coate Reservoir
- Nov 1911 An American in Swindon
- Nov 1913 Oxford Canal Co half-yearly meeting
- Nov 1918 The cost of the canal
- Sept 1918 The filling in of the Canal
- July 1918 Cultivation of the Canal
- Archives 1900 - 1909
- Oct 1909 Telford Rd Bridge Swindon
- Sept 1903 Public Rights on the Towing Path
- Aug 1902 Letter to Editor regarding Canal at Wantage
- May 1902 Opposition to the Closure of the Canal
- Jan 1906 Christmas in Swindon
- Jan 1906 Tram Cars and the Golden Lion Bridge
- Nov 1904 A Cow in the Canal
- Dec 1906 (2) Cleaning the Canal
- Dec 1906 Cleaning the Canal.
- March 1902 Canal Boats & Dauntsey Lock
- March 1904 Bristol's Opposition to the closing of the Canal.
- Sept 1908 A Defective Bridge
- Feb 1908 Berkshire CC
- July 1908 The Canal Commission - Traders Views
- June 1908 : Medical Health Report
- February 1908: Canal Report
- June 1907: M.P. on State Ownership
- Archives 1890 - 1899
- 1892 Wilts & Berks Canal Dinner
- Jan 1890 The Canal bridges
- 1893 Towing Paths
- June 1891 Tender fro dredging the Canal
- Jan 1894 Canal Rates Enquiry
- May 1893 Cambria Bridge Swindon
- April 1893 Towpath repair & maintenance
- Oct 1892 Illegal Fishing & Swimming
- 1893: Wilts & Berks Annual Dinner
- May1897 Proposed Closing Of W&BC
- Archives 1880 - 1889
- 1883-1887 Shareholders Meetings
- December 1889: Canal Traffic to Bristol
- 1888 :The Railway & Canal Traffic Act
- March 1887: Half yearly shareholders meeting
- November 1885: The Canal Boats Act
- October 1885: The Canal Boats Act
- April 1885: Half yearly Meeting
- November 1883: Shareholders Meeting
- April 1882: Avonmouth docks and the canals
- Archives 1870 - 1879
- 1878 Swing Bridge Fleet St Swindon
- Mar 1875 Proposal to Close the Canal
- Dec 1878 Old Canal Company
- July 1878 New Canal Company
- May 1878 Fleet St Bridge
- Dec 1874 Closing of the Canal
- Feb 1875 Riparian Owners Meeting
- March 1871 The New bridge
- Feb 1873 Proposed New Bridge in Fleet St
- Oct 1876 New Bridge in Fleet St
- April 1879 Fishing
- Nov 1874 Closing the Canal
- April 1872 Steam Boat journey from London to Swindon
- March & Sept 1872 2 items on Coate Water
- February 1877 The letting of Canal Wharves
- May 1876: Another suck of the Orange
- November 1875: Provisional Canal Sale
- June 1875: Sale of the Canal
- January 1875: Chippenham Meetings
- Archives 1860 - 1869
- Archives 1800 - 1859
- Historic Documents
- The Story of the Trust
- Early Dragonfly
- No 1 Dragonfly Nov 1977
- No 2 Dragonfly Jan 1978
- No 3 Dragonfly April 1978
- No 4 Dragonfly Aug 1978
- No 5 Dragonfly Nov 1978
- No 6 Dragonfly Feb 1979
- No 7 Dragonfly May 1979
- No 8 Dragonfly Aug 1979
- No 9 Dragonfly Jan 1980
- No 10 Dragonfly April 1980
- No 11 Dragonfly Aug 1980
- No 12 Dragonfly Dec 1980
- No 13 Dragonfly April 1981
- No 14 Dragonfly Aug 1981
- No 15 Dragonfly Nov 1981
- No 16 Dragonfly June 1982
- No 17 Dragonfly Nov 1982
- No 18 Dragonfly Aug 1983
- No 19 Dragonfly Nov 1983
- No 20 Dragonfly March 1984
- No 21 Dragonfly July 1984
- No 22 Dragonfly Nov 1984
- No 23 Dragonfly March 1985
- No 24 Dragonfly July 1985
- No 25 Dragonfly Nov 1985
- No 26 Dragonfly March 1986
- No 27 Dragonfly July 1986
- No 28 Dragonfly Nov 1986
- No 29 Dragonfly March 1987
- No 30 Dragonfly July 1987
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- Ordnance Survey Maps
- Map Main Line West to East: 1 Melksham
- Map Main Line West to East: 2 Melksham
- Map Main Line West to East: 3 Melksham
- Map Main Line West to East: 4 Melksham
- Map Main Line West to East: 5 Queensfield & Lacock
- Map Main Line West to East: 6 Lacock
- Map Main Line West to East: 7 Pewsham & Chippenham
- Map Main Line West to East: 8 Stanley Junction
- Map Main Line West to East: 9 From Stanley Junction
- Map Main Line West to East: 10 Bremhill
- Map Main Line West to East: 11 Foxham Lock
- Map Main Line West to East: 12 Foxham & Woodcommon Locks
- Map Main Line West to East: 13 Daunsey Lock west
- Map Main Line West to East: 14 Daunsey Lock east
- Map Main Line West to East: 15 Seven Locks
- Map Main Line West to East: 16 Hart Farm
- Map Main Line West to East: 17 Vastern Dunnington
- Map Main Line West to East: 18 Wootton Bassett
- Map Main Line West to East: 19 Woodshaw & Chaddington Locks
- Map Main Line West to East: 20 Blooms Garden Centre
- Map Main Line West to East: 21 Swindon Wichelstowe
- Map Main Line West to East: 22 Swindon Wichelstowe Junction
- Map Main Line West to East: 23 Swindon
- Map Main Line West to East: 24 Swindon Coate Water
- Map Main Line West to East: 25 Swindon 'Gateway'
- Map Main Line West to East: 26 Swindon A419
- Map Main Line West to East: 27 Swindon Dorcan
- Map Main Line West to East: 28 Swindon Acorn Bridge
- Map Main LIne West to East: 29 Shrivenham
- Map Main Line West to East: 30 Shrivenham East
- Map Main Line West to East: 31 Longcut Junction
- Map Main Line West to East: 32 Longcut Bottom Lock
- Map Main Line West to East: 33 Uffington west
- Map Main Line West to East: 34 Uffingham east
- Map Main Line West to East: 35 Kingston Common Bridge
- Map Main Line West to East: 36 Childrey
- Map Main Line West to East: 37 Challow
- Map Main Line West to East: 38 East Challow
- Map Main Line West to East: 39 Grove Wantage
- Map Main Line West to East: 40 Grove Bottom Lock
- Map Main Line West to East: 41 Ardington March Lock
- Map Main Line West to East: 42 Willow Bank Farm
- Map Main Line West to East: 43 Drayton Lock
- Map Main Line West to East: 44 East of Drayton Lock
- Map Main Line West to East: 45 Drayton Village
- Map Main Line West to East: 46 Abingdon
- Map: North Wilts Canal 1 Swindon
- Map: North Wilts Canal 2 Swindon - Rodbourne
- Map: North Wilts Canal 3 Swindon Cheney Manor to Moredon South
- Map: North Wilts Canal 4 Swindon Cheney manor to Mordon North
- Map: North Wilts Canal 5 The Pry to Tadpole Lane
- Map: North Wilts Canal 6 Tadpole Lane to South Meadow Lane
- Map: North Wilts Canal 7 South Meadow Lane to Cricklade
- Map: North Wilts Canal 8 New Route Cricklade to Thames & Severn Canal
- Map: North Wilts Canal 9 Historic Route Cricklade to Latton Basin
- Map: Chippenham Branch
- Map: Calne Branch 1
- Map: Calne Branch 2
- Map: Wantage Branch
- Map: Historic Route 1 South Maston
- Map: Historic Route 2 Covingham Stratton Greenbridge
- Map: Historic Route 3 Greenbridge to Town Centre
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