Wells, Sadler Street 1963
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The Old Priory Café, the gabled building on the left, now a picture gallery, has a 17th-century façade and a medieval jettied front with pargetting (plaster designs). The agricultural merchants B D Mogg & Sons (left) are still trading - their premises are now on the northern outskirts of the city. Sadler Street was subject to an enhancement scheme in 2001, and much of the asphalt road has been replaced by more picturesque material. Exploration of the uncharted territory beneath the street was also undertaken, as the ancient water and drainage pipes needed to be replaced.

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A Selection of Memories from Wells

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 Wells

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I'm surprised there are so few memories of Wells. In the late '60's to '70's I lived in nearby Shepton Mallet as a schoolboy & later worked on a farm there. At weekends my elder brother, Colin, would arrive on the coach from Bournemouth, where he worked for the MoD. This was usually on a Friday night, & he would bring fish & chips - a great treat, picked up from the Shepton chippy. Saturday we would ...see more
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 Gaetano Celestra, who had been a sculptor and mason before the war. When a stray enemy bomb fell at Beech Barrow and damaged a wall belonging to the farm where he was working, he rebuilt it and ...see more
I think the date at 1974 is correct but I would have been 6 then!! We owned all of what is Beechbarrow now and as a young man I had the run of the place! I hope the beech walk is still there, I built my first tree house in there! It was on the other side from the barn that Ron Chard had. Ron Chard was the farmer that used the paddocks we had. His son Tom is hopefully running it now, if Ron is not. Romulus & ...see more