#Swindon
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Renault Distribution Centre, Swindon / Wiltshire, 1981 - 1983. By Norman Foster
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Population: 183,638
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Swindon Zine Fest takes place on the 22nd of June, 2024 in Swindon, U.K.
It's beautiful accompanying poster was illustrated by Harl Jones.
#zine#zines#fanzine#fanzines#zine fest#zine fair#fanzine fest#fanzine fair#festival de fanzines#foire de fanzines#swindon#swindon zine fest#swindon zine fair#harl jones
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XTC Live - Théâtre de l'Empire - Paris - 18/11/1979
0:53 - Real by reel
4:32 - Helicopter
8:18 - Making plans for Nigel
12:25 - This is pop
15:01 - Are you receiving me?
18:15 - Statue of Liberty
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Billie Piper should play Polly Pocket in the Polly Pocket movie because they're both originally from Swindon send tweet
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Grass (Live at Swindon Arts Centre) - TC&I (2018)
I guess this release has become quite rare in the intervening 4 years since its release, but it deserves a new reissue!
Fun to hear some of the latter-day Colin XTC tracks given a live airing all these years later. Cheers to bday boy Colin Moulding!
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Anthony Fineran, Smoky Swindon, 2024
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When Lechlade becomes Swindon, December 2023
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Olly Alexander wearing a Kenzo S/S 2016 outfit in a gig at the Oasis, Swindon (April 6, 2016).
#olly alexander#years and years#years & years#style#it's a sin#night call#starstruck#crave#sweet talker#hallucination#sooner or later#100% pure love#throwback#communion#gig#swindon#The Oasis#outfit#tshirt#t-shirt#shorts#Kenzo S/S 2016#Kenzo
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Swindon Zine Fest takes place on the 3rd of June, 2023 in Swindon, United Kingdom.
Beautiful zine fest poster by Polish illustrator Kamila Krol.
#zine#zines#fanzines#fanzine#kamila krol#swindon zine fest#zine fest#zine fair#fanzine fest#fanzine fair#swindon#zine fest poster#zine fair poster
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Tented Market - Scrapbook
These are some more rougher photos, taken of the Tented Market before it's closure on the 31st of August 2017.
On a beautiful sunny day in 2017 I decided to visit the Tented Market for 1 last time before it's closure.
It had a special place in my heart as when I was a young child I remember my parents taking me here, it was a different time back then. The Tented Market was alive and well. The thriving market was a bastion for local businesses.
The pristine white roofs were well kept, bright and followed a theme of the town centre. It wasn't the only place to feature such decor, but over time it had been changed.
As the town of swindon grew, the Tented Market remained much the same. It was home to great local businesses but they could not survive against the competitors.
The council invested more into the Brunel Centre, and times changed; the local stores within this once welcoming structure could no longer compete. It was a time capsule still standing but barely.
Even outwardly, they had to remind people the place was still open. Signs were plastered all over the building. An attempt to save the doomed building.
It was clear that those left in this place still actively loved and appreciated the Tented Market. Unfortunately. It did little to save it.
What used to be a grand entrance to the Tented market, had nothing to advertise itself as a bustling store. It's no wonder they needed signs to remind the passersby that the place was still open.
At the staircase to one of the main entrances. It was so neglected, not even the typical unsavoury type had any desire to loiter here. It was that empty.
The placard sign commemorated the market being open for a grand total of 22 years. It's one reason why the closure of the Tented Market hit me.
There are definitely older shopping centres in Swindon. Though that's discrediting what the Tented Market was before this was built in 1994.
Obviously, this was well before my time. I have no photographs of the Tented Market in any other state.
Unfortunately I took 1 photograph of the Tented Market map. I wish I took more photographs of the Tented Market, but 2017 “me” was a bit more afraid of taking pictures inside businesses.
This map wasn't even accurate, there are more businesses that were on there than there should be. Ouch.
In one of the many empty shop spaces I saw a "SAVE OUR TENT MARKET" poster. One of many attempts to spare the market from closure.
Left, you can see the remains of the comic shop. On the right I can't remember what it was. At the only used entrance you could see 2 of the last remaining shops in the Tented Market.
In 2013 when I was still attending college I visited this place for lunch. At this time it was clearly on its way out but the Tented Market had it's share of visitors.
You could walk in here and smell the exotic food. I can say it was pretty good. At the time of this photo, it was nothing. Just an empty stall and a reminder of what was lost.
They still kept the bench and chair used by the very few customers who would wait for their order... yes. When I was at college it was the very chair I sat on waiting for my chicken wrap. Nothing had changed in that time.
It was still advertising the same menu available in 2013, Eggelicious was only a recent move. Setting sights on a new offering opening up in the Brunel Centre...
The Brunel Centre in this year (2017) was undergoing a drastic renovation to one of the interior corridors. They opened it up into a designated food hall. It seemed at this time Eggelicious decided to finally abandon the Tented Market and instead opt for the much newer food court instead.
Included is the photograph of them building the escalator to the new food hall still in progress.
I found some stickers that had accumulated on the door, A time capsule. Including a sticker that read "Never Trust a Hipster"
Here is a collection of empty doors, empty stores. Much appears the same.
For a time I can remember there existing an American Candy store. I can't say I'm surprised they didn't take off. The drink I had was so sugary and expensive... I'll stick to European snacks I think.
They still tried to get people on board. I hadn't taken note of what that sign said until today... I mean if they're still offering up a commercial space for £20 a week. I'd be down to set up a photography shop.
That's not half bad... if you ignore the fact this place is dead. Also not opening ever again.
That is the end of the Tented Market. There are whispers here and there of redevelopment. Like much of Swindon it's destined to become something else.
Something mid. That is.
That isn't all I have to show of Swindon. There are far more parts of the it to be documented!
~ Aercascade
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This Is Pop, the definitive documentary about XTC.
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It’s the Uffington White Horse!! :^)
#suddenly realised we were driving home very near it and suggested we pay it (and Swindon!!!!!) a visit#absolutely buzzing#xtc fan moment 😎#xtc band#english settlement#uffington white horse#Swindon
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