Clevedon, Marine Parade 1913
Photo ref: 65397
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Clevedon was where Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sara Fricker spent their honeymoon in 1795. They stayed for two months, not unusually long by honeymoon standards of the day for those who had wealth or position; Sir Charles Monck and his bride honeymooned for two years. In the 1790s, Coleridge was a radical journalist and romantic poet, and his opium addiction lay somewhere in the future.

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A Selection of Memories from Clevedon

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Clevedon

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On the surface of it there was nothing to do in Clevedon for a teenager, but I was wrong. Meeting up with friends and looking for entertainment, Clevedon Pier came the place to be, with a juke box and the latest records (those were the days of rock and roll) we danced all night, well, till the pier master closed up for the night. It was a regular thing that when the paddle steamer landed to drop off ...see more