{"id":17265,"date":"2024-03-04T12:37:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T02:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=17265"},"modified":"2024-03-04T12:37:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T02:37:38","slug":"great-western-railway-helps-get-unique-childrens-history-of-swindon-book-into-every-school-in-the-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=17265","title":{"rendered":"Great Western Railway helps get unique children\u2019s history of Swindon book into every school in the town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Western Railway (GWR)<\/a> has sponsored the purchase of 100 copies of the illustrated history of Swindon by local artist and author, Hannah Dosanjh, in conjunction with the Mayor of Swindon, Councillor Barbara Parry.<\/p>\n<p>The book, entitled \u2018A Railway Town called Swindon\u2019 and beautifully illustrated, provides a unique learning tool for children to learn about their town. Aimed at three to 11-year-olds, it tells the story of Swindon and its growth through \u2018Isambark Kingdog Brunel\u2019 and \u2018Spaniel Gooch\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>More than 40 full colour pages of detail and a rhyming story takes readers on a journey of discovery through Swindon\u2019s incredible industrial railway history and social impact.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative comes ahead of World Book Day on Thursday 7 March.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Parry said: \u201cAs soon as I saw this book I was wowed by it. It truly is a unique learning tool for the children of Swindon and thanks to GWR\u2019s help, it will help our children learn about the town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really is a brilliant way to explain our fantastic history and I hope this will give them a real pride when they realise just what this town has achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Self-confessed history \u2018anorak\u2019, author and artist, Hannah Dosanjh, said: \u201cWhen I first had the idea for the book, I never realised the impact it would have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so pleased that every school child in Swindon will now have access to the book and learn about Swindon\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GWR Business Assurance Director, Joe Graham, said: \u201cSwindon is as important today for GWR as it was when Brunel and Gooch first chose the town for the world-famous railway works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis book is a great way to tell that importance to those who could become the GWR engineers, train drivers and station managers of the future and we are really pleased to help the mayor in getting this into schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book can be purchased through Hannah\u2019s own website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hannahdosanjh.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hannahdosanjh.co.uk.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Western Railway (GWR) has sponsored the purchase of 100 copies of the illustrated history of Swindon by local artist and author, Hannah Dosanjh, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[7,11],"class_list":["post-17265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","tag-transport","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}