Things to do in Swindon

[TopCat]

Got a few hours to kill. Suggestions please?

 

[skyscraper101]

The Museum of Computing?

Museum of Computing, Swindon – The Museum of Computing at Swindon collects earlier computers, games and calculators. Many displays are hands-on. We are family friendly and welcome school visits.

www.museumofcomputing.org.uk

 

[Plumdaff]

Wikiwand - Magic Roundabout (Swindon)

The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England, is a ring junction constructed in 1972

www.wikiwand.com

 

[gosub]

Bristol?

 

[Pickman's model]

Got a few hours to kill. Suggestions please?

pub. there must be one. somewhere.

 

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pub. there must be one. somewhere.

The Glue Pot is quite nice in a trad way: The Glue Pot - Hopback Brewery

 

[Elpenor]

Now there’s a 90s film franchise reboot that no one has been eagerly waiting for (except DaveCinzano )

 

[skyscraper101]

The only things I ever went to Swindon for were the pool and slides at the Oasis leisure center, or the ice skating at the Link Centre. Both currently closed.

 

[TopCat]

So get pissed and visit a roundabout.

 

[skyscraper101]

There's a big outlet village if you're in the market for some new clothes an that

Our Stores | Designer Outlet Swindon | McArthurGlen

Find over 100 designer stores offering savings of up to 60% on fashion brands at our Swindon shopping outlet. Find out more on our website.

www.mcarthurglen.com

 

[TopCat]

First impressions are mixed.

A dismal town centre, reminiscent of Croydon or Coventry.
Much recently demolished.

Heras fencing and piles of rubble everywhere. A shopping area with toothless people arguing.

I have retreated into a spoons.

 

[Pickman's model]

First impressions are mixed.

A dismal town centre, reminiscent of Croydon or Coventry.
Much recently demolished.

Heras fencing and piles of rubble everywhere. A shopping area with toothless people arguing.

I have retreated into a spoons.

It's not got croydon's fine architecture, good pubs or top transport links

 

[Pickman's model]

So get pissed and visit a roundabout.

People pay good money for the Swindon experience, you know

 

[TopCat]

I was hoping for a tk max but it’s more white cider and crack pipe shops.

 

[TopCat]

It's not got croydon's fine architecture, good pubs or top transport links

You are correct. It’s more the piles of rubble that remind me of Croydon. The architecture here is Coventry. A Coventry in decline.

 

[skyscraper101]

I was hoping for a tk max but it’s more white cider and crack pipe shops.

They've got an all new singing and dancing one at Mannington Retail Park. With 2 floors, and a Cafe.

Inside brand new TK Maxx store at Swindon retail park

Spanning across 2 floors, and over 34,000 square feet

www.wiltshirelive.co.uk

There's also an M&S and an Oak Furniture Land there

 

[Pickman's model]

I was hoping for a tk max but it’s more white cider and crack pipe shops.

I see you've found the high-end shops there

 

[Pickman's model]

You are correct. It’s more the piles of rubble that remind me of Croydon. The architecture here is Coventry. A Coventry in decline.

It's where people from Coventry are traditionally sent if they're being ostracised

 

[Pickman's model]

Got a few hours to kill. Suggestions please?

Anyway what in God's name possessed you to go to Swindon?

 

[TopCat]

They've got an all new singing and dancing one at Mannington Retail Park. With 2 floors, and a Cafe.

Inside brand new TK Maxx store at Swindon retail park

Spanning across 2 floors, and over 34,000 square feet

www.wiltshirelive.co.uk

There's also an M&S and an Oak Furniture Land there

A dying town centre with thriving retail park in the outskirts. That is like Croydon.

 

[TopCat]

Anyway what in God's name possessed you to go to Swindon?

I’m heading down to Avebury to stagger about and laugh a lot (celebrate the solstice) . Got to stock up here in Swindon with supplies but I have no need of crack pipes or white cider.

I want a nice jumper and some Guinness extra.

 

[Pickman's model]

I’m heading down to Avebury to stagger about and laugh a lot (celebrate the solstice) . Got to stock up here in Swindon with supplies but I have no need of crack pipes or white cider.

I want a nice jumper and some Guinness extra.

you might have to make do with a cast-off hoodie and a 2 litre bottle of diamond white

 

[TopCat]

There is a nearby primark. That’s a good start plus the burger and chips and pint I just had were fine.

 

[skyscraper101]

I’m heading down to Avebury to stagger about and laugh a lot (celebrate the solstice) . Got to stock up here in Swindon with supplies but I have no need of crack pipes or white cider.

I want a nice jumper and some Guinness extra.

If you're going to Avebury, I'd just head to somewhere nicer near Avebury to stock up that isn't Swindon.

Marlborough for example, is nearby and fairly nice, and has a Tesco, Aldi and Waitrose, and isn't a wasteland. Also you could hang around up by Savernake, or around Silbury Hill and it's only a stone's throw from Avebury. Fuck hanging about in Swindon.

 

[skyscraper101]

Then again, the TK Maxx cafe is an 'Urban Eatery'

 

[Riklet]

Go to STEAM the Great Western museum!

Swindon is definitely like Croydon don't get too excited.

 

[TopCat]

Thanks for the advice.

I chatted to a nice woman in the spoons after my lunch. I asked about stuff to do. She looked at me like I was odd. She eventually said there was another spoons nearby, a nicer one. My silence begged why she was in the shit spoons. Apparently it was good to start in the shit one then move on.

I got a few dragon stout in. Shared a smoke with a few of the toothless and am now on a bus out.

From the top deck I’m getting flashes of Neasden.

 

[Epona]

My Mother in Law lives in Swindon.

That is the only thing about it that IMO needs to be said.

 

[xenon]

 

[JimW]

Used to go for the football, but that was off the train and straight up to the ground really, maybe a drink. Did once go to a good party in a barn just north.