Back Issues for 2024 -2023 – Somerset Coalfield Life

Issues of Five Arches published in 2024.

Issue 105: Autumn 2024. Available from the Museum shop for £4.50

• News from the Museum

• Lost Pubs. Martin Horler

• A henge monument at Peasedown St John. Stephen Clews

• Strong Willed Women. Gill Hogarth

• Henry Lye – a local violin maker. Tom Randall

• Tales of the Palladium: part 1. Duncan Steel

• History in the landscape: part 2 . Clandown Bottom. Larry Cunningham

• From the archives: an accidental fire at Braysdown. Simon Carter

Issue 104: Easter 2024. Available from the Museum shop for £4.50

• No such thing as a noble lady of leisure. Gill Hogarth.

• Edward Maunsell House and the Great War. Alan Shearn.

• Memories of the Wagon Works. Isobel Cheetham.

• Notes on coal mining in Twerton, Bath. Robert G Naish

• Rambling the Coal Canal. Tracy Craven.

• Paranumismatica Part 7: Miscellanea and recent finds. Tom Randall.

• The Coleford Comforts Fund. Pt 3; Albert John Treasure. Julie Dexter.

• From the Archives: a map of Somerset. Simon Carter.

Issue of Five Arches published in 2023.

Issue 103: Autumn 2023. Available from the Museum shop for £4.50

• Wagon Works by Duncan Harper

•Charlie Shearn 1794-1871. Alan Shearn

• A Sunday School banner from Coleford Pt. 1. Stephen Clews

• 50 years on; celebrating the Somerset Miners and the Annual Miners Reunion. Dennis Chedgy and Julie Dexter

• Pinafores and Aprons. Gill Hogarth

• The Stowey & Bishop Sutton Friendly Society Flag. Tom Randall

• The Coleford Comforts Fund Pt 2. Julie Dexter

• History in the Landscape Pt 1; Midsomer Norton Golf Club and Clandown Common. Larry Cunningham

• Pt 6: Co-operative Pre-payment Checks. Tom Randall