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Bowlish maps

Historic maps of Bowlish and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Bowlish maps

Bowlish photos

We have no photos of Bowlish, although we do have photos of these nearby places:

Shepton Mallet| Croscombe| Dinder| Doulting| Pilton| Stoke St Michael| Wells| East Pennard| Ditcheat| Stratton-On-The-Fosse| Holcombe| Wookey Hole| Wookey| Priddy| Bruton| Kilmersdon

Bowlish area books

Displaying 1 of 11 books about Bowlish and the local area.   View all books for this area

Memories of Bowlish

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Somerset memories

Where It Is Now

Cricket Pavilion 1899
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I don't know when, but at some point the whole pavilion was moved to where it it still is, just behind Nat West and Philips' Tyres. It has been converted into a bungalow, but if you look closely you can see what it was. When we had our office there, it still had its little tower, but it leaked and the landlord took the easy option of removing it.

I Live in Shepton Mallet

I was Shepton Mallet Carnival Queen and it was very good to do the job.  My Granny and Grampy lived in Shepton Mallet and my dad and uncle were born in Shepton Mallet as well my mum who would've been the Shepton Mallet Carnival Queen in 1965. Pete and I are building a shed down Darshill. It used to be a pig barn and it is going to be wonderful when it is finished.  We will have to take photos of the shed now and before.  I got the map of Darshill and it shows us that the shed that me and my friend done is on the map

A Changing Townscape

Memories of Shepton Mallet.
I was born in Kilver Street, Shepton Mallet just two years before the Second World War was declared and have drawn upon my family and my own memories to produce 18 books of local history on the town and the surrounding area. Little had changed in the townscape during the previous 100 years, and it was until the 1960s that widescale demolition and rebuilding took place. In many cases this erased much of the 19th century built townscape. Should anyone like to know more about my town's history I would be glad to help, or visit my website: freddavis.co.uk .
Fred Davis

Whitstone School

I remember my first day at Whitstone, after leaving Doulting Junior it seemed so big. I had 5 good years at Whitstone, and made many friends. I send my regards to all my old school friends, Fond thoughts, Shaun Allen.

Scarlett Withies

My great-grandmother Mahala Willmott was born at a place called Scarlett Withies. Does anyone know where it was? The Willmotts lived on Church Street and later on Long Street.

My Relatives

MY RELATIVES FROM THE 1800S FARMED AT BODDEN FARM N/R DOULTING. THE VILLAGE IS VERY PICTURESQUE. MY FAMILY ENDED UP MOVING TO CARDIFF IN 1881, BUT AS IT IS NOW I LIVE IN WINCANTON YOU COULD SAY I HAVE COME HOME.     

Three Ashes, Oakhill

Stoke Hill c1950
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We used to stay at Three Ashes, Stoke Hill with my grandparents most summers in the fifties. They were called Moore. My mother (now deceased) was called Enid Moore and was brought up by her grandparents, John Moore a quarryman and his wife (I do not know her first name). Her mother was called Edith Florence May Moore, but we were brought up to call her auntie. Does anyone out there have any memories/photos of the area. I would be most obliged as I am trying to trace my family tree to give to my grandson.

Many thanks

Linda W

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