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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book still in great condition. Cover and corners has some light wear but pages are free from notes and in great condition. See images. A great book.

About the book >.>.> Christ Church Swindon has a small stained glass window portraying a G.W.R. engine and also the company’s coat-of- arms. St. Barnabas has a modern wall mural showing a railway engine and the Swindon Railway Works St Augustine’s used to have the nameplate of the G.W.R. made engine ‘Saint Augustine” but in 1978 it was sold towards funds for the new hail built at the rear of their church! (The two nameplates St. Augustine’s Choir gave to the Royal School of Church Music St. Nicholas’ and Westminster Abbey Choir School – Westminster Abbey are still cherished by those establishments). It is a pity there were no plates or engines called St. Mark. St. John. St. Saviour St. Luke or St. Aldhelm. The church that can rightly call itself the railway church is St. Mark’s New Swindon. It was built under the guidance of the G.W.R. Fund to serve the newly built railway village nearby and soon became a parish church in its own right As the G.W.R. Works at Swindon grew larger more workmen were needed more houses built the parish of St. Mark’s increased and grew with the Works and the parish influencing each other. This is not meant to be a history of either the G.W.R.. or of the parish of St. Mark’s New Swindon these have been mostly written or compiled by others. This narrative is an attempt to show how the factory and the parish interacted one with the other over the last hundred and fifty years or so. A namesake of mine. (LL)