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Time Travel Mural at Cambria Bridge, Swindon, Wiltshire



A new mural for 2015 - this time being brought up to date and painted with aerosol cans of paint!  We couldn't find a name for this mural (please let us know if you know!) but we call it ''Time Travel Mural'.  The Visual Drop created this - artists Ed Russell and James Habgood, with Justin Smythe - after talks with The Railway Kids youth club, the Mechanics Institute Trust and Swindon Borough Council.  The following year brought the 175th anniversary of the GWR coming to Swindon so a glance looking back at Swindon's history seemed in order for this mural.  We were fortunate to speak to two of the artists who were working on the mural when we were there and they told us their vision and reasons why this particular theme was chosen.  There are some clever things going on here - glimpses into the past, present and possibly future of Swindon, with time all mixed up due to a leak from the TARDIS (which itself has a Swindon link).  Information about how it came to be can be seen at the  Swindon Link Magazine.

Please see our main  Cambria Mural  page for details about the wall's other designs, photographs during renovation and repainting and links to photographs/information on other websites.

'Time Travel in Swindon'
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Photo Date: September 2018
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The original Police box
by Ken White
Photograph used with kind permission of Carter Collectables.
See website:  www.cartercollectables.co.uk
See Carter Collectables Swindon Album at  Flickr Album
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Photo Date: June 1905
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Photo Date: October 2015
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The front of the box
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Dedicated to Ken White and thanks to Mechanics Institute Youth Centre
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Photo Date: October 2015
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Oh no, it looks like there has been a leak ...
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Photo Date: October 2015
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... and time is leaking out
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Photo Date: October 2015
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The Visual Drop's website
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Photo Date: October 2015
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The leak in time is progressing along the wall
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seeping into the cogs of time
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Photo Date: October 2015
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A hole in time to see back in time ...
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... to the original painting on on the wall ...
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... with the original artist Ken White
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Further on we see the Mechanics Institute building ...
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... in its prime, not boarded up and deteriorating ...
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... maybe this is the past or maybe it's future?
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Moving further along we see ...
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Swindon Viewpoint
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The hooters calling workers to the GWR - a sound disliked at the time but now looked back on with nostalgia
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Edith New - Swindon's suffragette from a hundred years before
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A hundred years later brings technology giving information about Edith
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Steps up to Cambria Bridge
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And peaking back to
the GWR works - Ken White was a signwriter there
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To commemorate Swindon 175 ...
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- the anniversary of the GWR coming to Swindon
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Where experts built glorious steam locomotives
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A quick glance back before moving further along
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More of Swindon's past
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Two great men from Swindon's history
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Sir Daniel Gooch and
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The great engineer Brunel
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who changed Swindon forever
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Who remembers the Octobus? Mandy does - she was on the Youth Council as a teenager and
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voted to buy the bus for use by the community and was on the committee that chose the winning design
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And the last section before the path of the old canal
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The design in 2015 when just finished
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but in 2018 part of it has been painted over in white
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And the other side of the bridge ...
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To Billy Piper who was born in Swindon - the Doctor's companion Rose Tyler
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And just to prove there is a problem with time, the TARDIS can be seen in two places at one time
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The TARDIS through time … well, 1987 to 2015 anyway.
The first photograph on the left in this montage is used with kind permission of Carter Collectables.
See website:  www.cartercollectables.co.uk
See Carter Collectables Swindon Album at  Flickr Album
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Photo Date: 1987-2015

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