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Brunel Centre, Swindon, Wiltshire



The heart of the Swindon town shopping is called the Brunel Centre.  It was built in the 1970s and over the last few years has gone through a programme of updating.  We have some photographs taken at different times showing these changes but it can feel rather disorientating.  One major change can be seen in the second and third photographs - they are taken from roughly the same position but look rather different.  Note the flooring has been completely changed from red brick square patterns to more earthy tones which has darker stones flowing along.

Brunel Centre
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View from top of Deacon Street
This photograph won a photographic competition and is now on a postcard of Swindon
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Photo Date: June 2004
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Entrance into the Brunel Centre in 2007 ...
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Photo Date: July 2007
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... and in 2014
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Inscription on paving in Canal Walk with information about the Wilts & Berks Canal which used to run along this very spot.
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Photo Date: July 2014
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Photo Date: July 2007
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One side of the service bridge
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And the other side of the bridge, here in 2007
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Photo Date: November 2005
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The bridge wall now a 'living wall' ...
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Photo Date: May 2011
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... made up of hundreds of plants
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Photo Date: May 2011
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Looking up to the David Murray John tower
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Photo Date: May 2011
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Taken during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and Olympic celebrations of 2012
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Photo Date: July 2012
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Plaque commemorating the opening of the Brunel Centre
19th November 1976
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Photo Date: November 2014
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Inside the Brunel Centre
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Photo Date: July 2012
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The Mighty Monarch Collage
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Remembering the Great War in the Brunel Centre - mural 'Lest We Forget' on the ground floor and the 'Poppy Commemoration Wall' on the first floor
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'Lest We Forget'
Mural in Brunel Centre
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The Poppy Commemoration Wall
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Looking up through the glass ceiling
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Photo Date: July 2012
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Looking along Canal Walk
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Photo Date: July 2014
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Photo Date: May 2011
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Havelock Square (before 2016 refurbishment)
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Royal Institute of British Architects 'Architecture Award 1977' plaque in the Brunel Centre
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Photo Date: September 2018
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Photo Date: July 2007
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The only original building left in this whole block - 81 Regent Street
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