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Broadway Lido.....My Home
Yes.....the Broadway Lidi was my home. I am Stuart Smith, my father Gordon Smith was the first manager (well, they called it superintendent then) at the Lido. We moved there when I was about 3 years old, and lived in a detached house adjacent to the Lido. I recall doing the "Inaugural Plunge" in front of Princess Alexandra......who presented me with a new pair of trunks, for performing the feat.
The Vauxhall car, which you see in the photo (below Lido sign), belonged to Wilf Pine, my father's deputy. Our house was just out of shot, to the right. We often had rugby balls landing in our garden, from Bridgwater & Albion Rugby Club, who played in the adjoining field. ...read more here
A memory of Bridgwater contributed by stuart smith
Ford Dealership
It's not really a memory I have of this picture, but my 1956 Ford Popular was supplied by the Ford Dealership, A & S White of 37 St. Mary Street, seen on the right in this picture. Now apparently a Weatherspoons Pub.
A memory of Bridgwater contributed by Greg Pryce
holidays
We spent many a happy holiday in the Bridgwater area, sometimes staying on a farm just outside Bridgwater and in later years in a flat in the holiday village in nearby Burnham on Sea. Many wonderful memories of my dead parents and dogs!
A memory of Bridgwater contributed by sue bowles
Shopping memories.
My father was a greengrocer and his shop appears in this photograph on the left side going into the Rex Cinema arcade, a butchers shop was on the right side. During the war years and into the very early 1950s, he was the largest greengrocer in Bridgwater, having the Eastover shop and one in Taunton Road, my parents looking after one each. They also had a third shop which my sister ran for several years. That section of Eastover, including the Rex arcade, Mr Jeal the ironmonger and several other shops were demolished in the early 1960s to make way for the rather bland row of shops that now occupy the spot.
A memory of Bridgwater contributed by Mr J Haines
Extracts From Wembdon & Somerset books
The western suburbs of Bridgwater grew in the late 19th century to incorporate the village of Wembdon, whose
church was at the far east end of the village. In 1906 it looks remarkably rural. Much of this feeling remains today:
the churchyard wall with its railings and gates is unchanged, although the copper beech behind the left gate pier has
grown very large.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
It is a relief to reach the archaeologically rich and
beautiful headland of Brean Down, a carboniferous
limestone outlier of the Mendips reaching 300 feet
high, from whose bare grassy slopes are long views
to Wales, Glastonbury and along the Somerset coast.
Closer in, you can look down on Weston Bay and
Weston-super-Mare to the north: it is probably
better not to look too closely at the holiday sprawl
along the road back to Burnham-on-Sea.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
The Church 1961
Heading back towards Highbridge and the end of
this seaside tour, we head for East Brent on the
north-east side of Brent Knoll; this is an Upper Lias
limestone outlier rising steeply from the flat lands
surrounding it. East Brent’s church has a tall,
slender spire, but its most remarkable feature is the
nave ceiling of 1637 which has a sinuous pattern of
imitation vault ribs focusing on three pendant
bosses done in a Gothic revival style.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
This lane leads from the main through road to the church and Manor House. The house on the left has been
demolished, and the lane now has modern houses on both sides. The church with its elegant 15th-century west tower
is well worth visiting for its medieval woodwork, including the benches and roofs.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
The Knoll, rising 550 feet from the Somerset flatlands between the Rivers Axe and Brue, is topped by one of
Somerset’s finest Iron Age hill forts. The sides of the Knoll are fringed with medieval strip linchets, or terraces,
formed for ploughing very steep slopes. Brent Knoll village straggles along the western side of the Knoll, with St
Michael’s Church, a dedication often associated with hill-tops and hills, to the centre and the Manor House of the
1860s to the right.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".