Wellington
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Anna's outing to the Wellington Monument
I have driven up and down the M5 so many times and seen a monument on top of the Blackdown Hills. Each time I passed I have wondered what it was and so eventually I got hold of an Ordnance Survey map and identified it as the Wellingotn Monument. I promised myself that one day I would actually NOT drive past but I would make an outing specifically to go and see it. And so today I took my wife Elizabeth and granddaughter Anna for a picnic to Somerset.
We found a small muddy National Trust car park which was filled with half a dozen cars, then tramped along a bumpy puddle strewn track for half a mile ...read more here
Contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Somerset memories
Anna's outing to the Wellington Monument
I have driven up and down the M5 so many times and seen a monument on top of the Blackdown Hills. Each time I passed I have wondered what it was and so eventually I got hold of an Ordnance Survey map and identified it as the Wellingotn Monument. I promised myself that one day I would actually NOT drive past but I would make an outing specifically to go and see it. And so today I took my wife Elizabeth and granddaughter Anna for a picnic to Somerset.
We found a small muddy National Trust car park which was filled with half a dozen cars, then tramped along a bumpy puddle strewn track for half a mile ...read more here
A memory of Wellington contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Memories
I've just discovered that my G.G.G. Grandfather's brother, Albert Fouracre, was the Licensed Victueller at this pub in 1891. Does that mean he was the Landlord?
A memory of Rockwell Green contributed by Julie McCormack
Mother's memory
My mother is now 86 years old and her short term memory is failing fast. She can remember things from her childhood more easily. She was born in Silver Street, Milverton in 1921, the daughter of Percy Frank Moore and Hilda Winter. Percy was a local baker and he would take her on his bike to deliver bread around the village. She says she played in an area of land called the "the Kill".
Percy was later persuaded to join his brothers in Cambridgeshire and the family moved in about 1927-8ish to the flat fens. Hilda never got over the move, and hated the flat landscape all her life.
A memory of Milverton contributed by Carole Chiverton
Extracts From Wellington & Somerset books
South Street, however, showed more
architectural consistency than Fore
Street, or even High Street. Grattons,
on the right, was replaced in the 1920s
by the Midland Bank seen in
photograph No 88415, now of course
the HSBC bank. Behind the
photographer is the Town Hall, which
closes the vista up South Street.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
Wellington, about ten miles south-west of Taunton at the foot of the Blackdown Hills, is an attractive market town
with its focus where South, Fore and High Streets meet. Here the late Regency Town Hall was built in 1833 with its
cupola and clocks; the latter have since been replaced by square faced ones. The splendid E H Aycliffe shopfronts to
the left have since been replaced.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
The Town Hall, also built as a corn market, was opened by the Duke of Wellington in 1833; a 173 feet obelisk
monument to the Duke is on Wellington Hill to the south of the town. Indeed, Arthur Wellesley, the victor of
Waterloo, took his title from this Somerset town. Most of Shaplands Hotel beyond on the left has been demolished
for a rather nasty supermarket building.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
By 1938, Shaplands Restaurant has become a Cafe‚ and the hotel had expanded into the shops on the right. Since
then the hotel has been demolished, leaving only the Gregory and Brean bay on the left. As can be seen in this view,
Fore Street exhibited a rather heterogeneous range of architectural styles.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
Showing one of its clock faces, Wellington’s Market and Town Hall was built in 1831 on property belonging to the Duke of Wellington. It was redeveloped in 1885, when the old Market House Inn to its left became the post office, and again in 1937.
An extract from from"Somerset Living Memories".