The ‘fur coated women of Old Town’ received a bad press when the Swindon Advertiser interviewed local bus drivers and conductresses during the Second World War.
“They expect to be picked up and put down outside their own homes, regardless of the approved stopping places, take twice as long as the average passenger to leave the bus because they are too busily engaged in a conversation which almost monopolises the vehicle, and invariably need change from a half crown or a note,” reported the Advertiser.*
Read about some of the former residents of Goddard Avenue who were hopefully less annoying!
William Rowland Bird – chief chemist at GWR Works and Scout Leader
Phyllis Mary Peters – Railway Clerk
William Dorling Bavin – Swindon’s War Record
*Swindon at War was a series of articles published in 2011 sourced from the Swindon Advertiser 1939-1941 and compiled by myself.
Radnor Street Cemetery 