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Centre ready to welcome Princess
9:14am Friday 9th May 2008
Comments (4)THE Princess Royal is due to officially open the purpose-built Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre in Chippenham later this morning.
Princess Anne is due to be met outside the £11.1m centre in Cocklebury Road by the Lord Lieutenant for Wiltshire, the High Sheriff and council officials from Chippenham and Swindon.
North Wiltshire MP James Gray will also be among the dignitaries to meet with the Queen's daughter as she arrives.
Since the centre opened at the end of October more than 10,000 people have visited or taken part in the events it has organised.
The centre, funded by Wiltshire County Council and Swindon Borough Council, is home to hundreds of thousands of artefacts and paper records from across the country.
In addition to the record facilities, the building can boast temperature-controlled storage facilities, a library, specialist research laboratories and a public search room.
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Disgusted of, Westbury says...
11:57am Fri 9 May 08
I hope she doesn't stand next to a horse. We'd never tell who is who.
Necker, Trowbridge says...
8:52pm Fri 9 May 08
To say it's not important is to shun everything that is us and has made us.
I suppose I'd rather have the Princess Royal open open this centre than 'someones mum'.
Investment in our future, through the past in our area.
Don't knock it.
old jarge, beanacre says...
9:35am Sun 11 May 08
Princess Anne on a previous visit to Wiltshire
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DILLIGAF, Westbury says...
10:49am Fri 9 May 08
How much wil it cost to have this bloody parasite here? Put the entire royal family in a museum, preferably a German one.