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Engine House, Swindon

Engine House, Swindon

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By Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen Manufacturer and Supplier of Secondary Glazing Selectaglaze Ltd. St Albans TM Secondary Glazing Selectaglaze Ltd, Alban Park, Hatfield Road, st. Albans, Herts AL4 0JJ T: 01727 837271 E: enquiries@selectaglaze.co.uk www.selectaglaze.co.uk @selectaglaze Engine House, Swindon Bene fit: Warmer T ype: Refurbishment Lis ting: Grade II* In 1840 Daniel Gooch, the newly-appointed 21 year old locomotive superintendent of the Great Western Railway wrote to Isambard Kingdom Brunel recommending Swindon as the location for a much needed engine works. In his letter he recommended that the then tiny hilltop town was the perfect location with “the great advantage of being on the side of a canal communicating with the whole of England, and by which

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