http://www.new-mechanics.com/news/this-is-our-heritage/ Home to Swindon’s preservation trust Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:52:00 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.new-mechanics.com/news/this-is-our-heritage/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Alan Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:33:08 +0000 http://dev.new-mechanics.com/2003/07/24/this-is-our-heritage/#comment-4 The Mechanics' Institution is not just an old historic building. It is key to where Swindon came from and also to where it should aspire to be. Those lost years of idle waiting have not been in vain. The time has come for Swindon to rediscover it's heart. The time has come for the Mechanics' to wake up from it's slumber. That time is NOW. The Mechanics’ Institution is not just an old historic building. It is key to where Swindon came from and also to where it should aspire to be. Those lost years of idle waiting have not been in vain. The time has come for Swindon to rediscover it’s heart. The time has come for the Mechanics’ to wake up from it’s slumber. That time is NOW.

]]> http://www.new-mechanics.com/news/this-is-our-heritage/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Bryan V Hardwick Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:26:30 +0000 http://dev.new-mechanics.com/2003/07/24/this-is-our-heritage/#comment-3 As an apprentice at the training school in Dean Street in 1972/73, myself and many of the other apprentices would spend evenings in the Mechanics' playing snooker. We were not allowed to buy alchol! although we managed it sometimes. I was unhappy to see the state the building had been reduced after the closure of the works. It is good to see that something is now being done to bring it back into use. It is a shame that the new use appears to not include anything to do with it's history or original perpose. As an apprentice at the training school in Dean Street in 1972/73, myself and many of the other apprentices would spend evenings in the Mechanics’ playing snooker. We were not allowed to buy alchol! although we managed it sometimes. I was unhappy to see the state the building had been reduced after the closure of the works. It is good to see that something is now being done to bring it back into use. It is a shame that the new use appears to not include anything to do with it’s history or original perpose.

]]> http://www.new-mechanics.com/news/this-is-our-heritage/comment-page-1/#comment-2 adrian vaughan Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:07:58 +0000 http://dev.new-mechanics.com/2003/07/24/this-is-our-heritage/#comment-2 The Mechanics Institute represents all that was best in Swindon. The learned lectures that were given there weekly, the earnest study opf real subjects like engineering, chemistry, mathematics, working people improving them,selves through study and improving the greatest railway in the world at the same time. The years of neglect of this very great building, home of a very noble ethic of work and learning, shows how low the leaders of the modern world have sunk. Please save it and turn it back into a centre of learning and the pursuit of knowledge - just because learning is the most civilised thing a person can do. The Mechanics Institute represents all that was best in Swindon. The learned lectures that were given there weekly, the earnest study opf real subjects like engineering, chemistry, mathematics, working people improving them,selves through study and improving the greatest railway in the world at the same time. The years of neglect of this very great building, home of a very noble ethic of work and learning, shows how low the leaders of the modern world have sunk. Please save it and turn it back into a centre of learning and the pursuit of knowledge – just because learning is the most civilised thing a person can do.

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