Once home to grazing cattle, the open farmland at Toothill was transformed over the space of a decade or so into a large estate providing homes for thousands of families.

Houses started to appear in the early 1970s, followed by a doctor's surgery and a school. Some of the buildings were eye-catching modern designs.

Development was still going on in Toothill and Freshbrook at the end of the 1980s as Swindon slowly but surely expanded towards the west.

But the people living there weren't the first human residents. Before building work got under way archaeologists uncovered several pottery kilns that dated back to Roman times.

The area even got its own shopping centre, initially Carrefour, but now Asda.