Issues of Five Arches published in 2022

Issue 102: Winter 2022. Available from the Museum shop for £4.50

  • Anna Maria Elizabeth Johnson, Authoress of Hinton Blewitt (1842-1887) by Gill Hogarth
  • The Coalfield Summer and Autumn of 1939 by Keith Trivett
  • Rambles to Coombend by Isobel Cheetham
  • Holcombe Mansion House by Larry Cunningham, Linda Hallett & Jan Merchant
  • Part 5 Co-operative Society dividend checks by Tom Randall
  • The Coleford Comforts Fund, Part 1 by Julie Dexter
  • From the Archives; A Military Funeral by Simon Carter

Issues of Five Arches published in 2021

Issue 101: Winter 2021- 2022: Available from the Museum shop for £4.50

  • News from the Museum
  • One family’s tragedy. Isobel Cheetham
  • Thomas Langley & Barlake Colliery. Simon Carter
  • Reflections on the past. Gill Hogarth
  • The peaceful years of the late 1930s. Keith Trivett
  • Rambling through Welton. Tom Randall & Lucy Tudor
  • A story of local volunteers, Pt.7: Fear takes on a new form. Gill Hogarth
  • Paranumismatica Pt.4: mining checks in the Somerset Coalfield. Gary Chedgy
  • Spanish Flu in the Somerset Coalfield, 1918-1919. Dr Nick Hall
  • Durcott Lane, Camerton. Roger Halse
  • The 32nd annual miners’ reunion. Julie Dexter

Issue 100: Summer 2021: 5 Arches centenary issue. Available from the Museum shop for £4.00

  • Celebrating our 100th issue
  • Rail Cops: the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway Police. Departments Norton-Radstock to Bath Green Park, 1866-1928 by Alex Andrews
  • From the Archives: Bristol to Midsomer Norton, via Auckland, New Zealand by Simon Carter
  • Norton Cricket Club, Part 2: the first 100 years (1878-1978). by Graeme King
  • The nineteenth-century public house token: paranumismatica, Part 3 by Tom Randall
  • Rambling through history: Radstock by Dennis Chedgy & Michelle Winfield
  • A glance over my shoulder: growing up in Wellow, Part 2 by Andrew Fussell
  • A story of local volunteers, Part 6: War! by Gill Hogarth
  • Mary Holbrook of Timsbury: the godmother of goat cheese making by Tony Lawrence
  • Greenwell & Radstock Collieries in 1883 by Sheila Eyles

Issue 99: Spring 2021.  Available from the Museum shop for £4.00

  • News from the Museum
  • Errata
  • A glance over my shoulder: growing up in Wellow, Part 1 by Andrew Fussell
  • School outing to Writhlington Coal Mine by Jacqueline Burrows
  • Eighteenth and nineteenth century trade tokens: paranumismatica, Part 2 by Tom Randall
  • Poems by an old codger: inspired by a family history of working underground by Neil Davies
  • Rambling back to Mells by Dennis Chedgy & Julie Dexter
  • Of mounds and men: retracing the steps of Reverend John Skinner of Camerton: a personal review by David Tomalin
  • Looking back and thinking ahead from the Editor
  • Midsomer Norton Cricket Club: the first hundred years by Graeme King
  • From the Museum collection: can you help?
  • A story of local volunteers, Part 5: In peace, depression and fear of further conflict by Gill Hogarth

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