Wells, Sadler Street 1963

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Caption for Wells, Sadler Street C1960: 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 Sadler Street was subject to an enhancement scheme in 2001, and much of the asphalt road has been replaced by more picturesque material.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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Memories of Wells

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 Gaetano Celestra, who had been a sculptor and mason before the war. When a stray enemy bomb fell at (...Read full memory)

Wells, Beech Barrow, Romulus and Remus Monument 2004

Saturday At The Regal

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 (...Read full memory)

I Lived At Beechbarrow

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 (...Read full memory)