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jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28233
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 05 6:12 pm Post subject:

Er indoors wrote:

Made by You is in the square, where there is a car park Studio is there which used to be Mission Night club. Behind Wood Street, but I can't think of the name of the car park. You need a ticket because the wardens there are gits.

Cheers, will have a look next time I am up that way.

jema

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Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 5025
Location: Berkshire

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 05 6:21 pm Post subject:

We live in the oldest village in England.( Thatcham, Tac 'ham).Well it was the oldest untill it became a town a few years ago....and it was a town in the middle ages...........Anyway, there was a grist mill, later a paper mill on the river for about 800 years, then an Austrian company bought it, ran it in to the ground, got rid of a few hundred jobs demolised it and sold the land !

Progress !
Nearest town is Newbury, woolen trade, The Newbury coat is on display in the local museum, from shearing to spinning to weaving to making the coat in one day !
There was a fair ammout of engineering , but this has died off in the past few years, now home to the Vodaclones.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 05 1:35 pm Post subject:
Lloyd: there's a coracle regatta in Shrewsbury in the summer (July?) each year. Might there be a coracle-maker there?

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 05 4:50 pm Post subject:
There are some nice things and information on the website of the jet carvers mentioned in Behemoth's quote - https://www.whitbyjet.co.uk/ And that's from someone who doesn't even like jewellery I do like the colour black though.

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