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Fishing
During the school holidays the canal and it's towpath became a playground for many of the village children. Several of us caught the fishing bug and used the canal many times throughout the holiday. We always looked out for a barge ...Read more
A memory of Wheaton Aston in 1956 by
Help Please
Hello can any one help me please? This is not specifically to Minehead but in April 1960 I stayed at a wooden chaleted holiday camp on the north Somerset coast to the east of Minehead, I think. All I can remember is that I stayed at ...Read more
A memory of Minehead in 1960 by
Happy Childhood Memories
I have very fond memories of living in Winscombe as a child, in fact they were some of the best years of my life. I was living in Yadley Lane, and loved to take walks up the old railway line which ran past our house, in ...Read more
A memory of Winscombe in 1978 by
Mendip
Lived at No10 Mendip Crescent next door to Jumbo Atkins Tom and Joan Rees were my aunt and uncle
A memory of Battersea by
The School Of The Holy Child, Laleham Abbey
heads the label in a dictionary of music that I received as a prize in Upper IA. No date. It must have been 1955. My name was/is Margaret Morley. I joined the school on my return from Malaya in 1951, followed ...Read more
A memory of Laleham
Mendip Road And Mendip Cresent
Me and my brother Ken lived at number 36 Mendip Road and went to Eltringham Street School. We would love to hear from anybody who lived in the street and Mendip Crescent. We still live in Battersea and Wandsworth ...Read more
A memory of Battersea in 1950 by
Behind Princes Road
I kept looking at this photo & wondering why it seemed a familiar view...Then, with the aid of maps & old pictures realised it was taken from the field (Barren Down?) behind my old school, Ivey House. On the right ...Read more
A memory of Shepton Mallet by
Recollections Of Ash Vale By Lt Col Taylor
RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more
A memory of Ash Vale by
A Wartime Reminder Of Italian Prisoners Of War
During the Second World War there was an Italian prisoner of war camp at Penleigh, on the outskirts of Wells in Somerset. The Italian POWS were put out to work on local farms, and one of them was ...Read more
A memory of Wells in 1940 by
Kidderminster Year Of Being A Resident
Towards the end of 1968 my husband had to complete a year's site experience and his placement was at Kiddie. We left our home in Kent and moved up. After searching for rented accommodation we were lucky ...Read more
A memory of Kidderminster in 1968 by
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The flat bottom is lined with 45 sheets of Mendip lead.
The flat bottom is lined with 45 sheets of Mendip lead.
This route heads for the beautiful Mendip Hills, the carboniferous limestone ridge that separates the Avon valley and Bath and Bristol from the rest of Somerset.
Despite modern development, much remains of the old Winscombe immortalised in Theodore Compton's 'A Mendip Valley' of 1892.
Under the Mendips, the Old Post House (by the phone box) and Weare House (to its left), now private houses, and the Lamb Inn (behind the photographer) offered refreshment and accommodation to travellers
Situated in the Lox Yeo valley, this village enjoyed one of the finest views of the Mendip Hills.
In the far distance are the hills of Wales, the Mendips and Exmoor.
Once known for its mines and caves, West Harptree sits between the Mendip ridge and Chew Valley Lake.
This view completes the tour of The Mendips and Frome area.
It is reputed to be a likeness of King John, who hunted in nearby Mendip forest.
Five miles east of Wells in the eastern Mendips, Shepton Mallet was a prosperous wool manufacturing town, which declined when northern England's Industrial Revolution got under way.
The route then heads east back to the Mendips to visit another celebrated tourist attraction, Wookey Hole.
Behind this ancient market town, the Mendips rise steeply, while the long main street of Axbridge winds to and from the central market place.
In addition to pure air, Weston has an unlimited supply of pure water from a never-failing spring, owned by the town, which is said to have its source in the Mendip range of hills.
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
Heading east away from the Mendips onto the rolling eastern Somerset countryside, we reach Nunney.
It looks across the Levels to the Mendips.
The 15th-century parish church of St Mary the Virgin is built of Mendip lias and Doulting stone, and has a stone spire 108ft high.
The Franciscans, or Grey Friars, were a mendicant order founded by St Francis of Assisi.
Two hundred Brixham men died during the First World War, many of them fishermen.
Controversy arose between the different parishes when it was in need of repair, and Garstang Highways Board refused point blank to mend it in April 1885.
