I want to begin this column by repeating the thank you in the STFC Club Programme for the generous support TrustSTFC give to the Museum Trust donating five thousand pounds to us every year. This enables us to be able to purchase rare items which may become available on auction

Curators Oct 2024 Column I think it perhaps shows that the Museum Trust is fulfilling one of the objectives for which it was given charitable status, namely spreading awareness of the proud heritage of the Swindon Town Football Club in that the Club now carries a piece on the club

I remember in the dim and distant days when I was teaching history, a primary school head and publisher said “A memory is something that makes you cry..” Such a moment came on our ground tour this month. It was the first tour when we were able to visit the

A friend of mine has been doing some research in to Jock Walker and although we have found where ise ashes were interred there is no memorial marker either on the spot or in the Book of Remembrance. To put an inscription in it would cost around £400 and is

I thought I would start this column by writing about two tours of the County Ground I did with our President John Trollope for groups from the Foundation Park. I don’t think John would disagree with me if I say that if those taking the tour enjoyed it half as

It is often said a country that has no past has no future. The same can be said of football clubs. Swindon Town have a proud history and by reminding supporters of it and making it accessible to them through stadium tours perhaps we can remind supporters that they have

One of the most satisfying things in the past month was being able to help relatives of former Town players with facts and photos about them. One of these came through the Glen Hoddle evening at the Wyvern. Besides picking up a signed photo of Glen, I was able to

I am informed that in addition to most home and away matchday programmes from the 1950’s up to the current day, which number in the several thousand, a further 1,000+ artefacts have been located ready to be exhibited or used to help people conduct historical research. Each item has been

While our Boxing Day opponents may have a vastly differing level of income to ourselves there is one way in which the two clubs have very much in common. Unlike many more recently formed clubs which traditionalists see as “parvenus,” Swindon and Wrexham have long and proud histories. Such clubs