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A quite weekend, but a chance to catch up with relatives who live nearby. I can’t say there is much to write today, but we had a good tour through Swindon old town. It was interesting to see how the hill on the town, got eaten by the new Swindon of the railway town, the…

Swindon is a town that holds much for those interested in railway history – being the location choosen by the GWR to establish their locomtive works. Following a request by Dad to get some photographs of one of the locomotives in the Swindon Steam musuem, we decided it was a chance to catch up if…

We had planned to plan today, the first part of the plan went well, a walk to Lechlade-on-Thames from Hannington. Along a lovely set of country paths, bridleways and tracks, the walk was a little boggy, but flat after descending from the starting point by Hannington Hall. After several miles of walking along flat landscape,…