Issues of Five Arches published in 2018.

Issue 92: Winter 2018. Available from the Museum shop for £4.00

  • The end of another season at the museum
  • The return of peace, November 1918 by Keith Trivett
  • Suffrage and Socialism, Part 2: Constance ‘Joan’ Beauchamp by Tom Randall
  • It’s all in the name…… Editor
  • Rambling a foreign field by Kate Pritchard and Dawn Townsend
  • “Great- Great Grandma was born here” by Anne Miall
  • Was the workhouse ever fit for purpose? by Trisha Heckbert
  • Working for Radstock Co-op by Geoff Weekes and Anny Northcote
  •  The Reverend Gardner, Rector of Radstock 1888 -1917 by Nick Turner
  • The range in the miner’s cottage by Diane Toogood and Pauline Smith
  • The 30th annual miner’s reunion by Julie Dexter
  • How did the miner lose his boot? Evelyn Boyd

Issue 91: Summer 2018: Available from the Museum Shop for £4.

  • News from the Museum
  • Clifford Thomas Ruddock, J.P.: “a man whose word was his bond” by Cynthia Crocker
  • Suffrage and Socialism – Joan and Kay Beauchamp Part 1: family background by Tom Randall
  • Slum landlords by Trisha Heckbert
  • This green and pleasant land: rambling the flower shows by Dennis Chedgy
  • A history of the Great War, Part 12: conclusion by William Peacock
  • The real ‘Very Adorable Darlings’ by Gill Hogarth
  • The layers of history: a look at the geology of the coalfield through the eyes of a nineteenth- century writer – Anon
  • The Great Western Railway’s Radstock Branch by Duncan Harper

Issue 90: Spring 2018. Available from the Museum shop for £4.00

  • News from the Museum
  • Vobster Women’s Institute ‘grand day ‘out’, June 1953 by Duncan Harper
  • The last Baron Radstock, a pupil at Monkton Combe School in the 1880s, Jacqueline Burrows
  • Catherine Pollard: unsung heroine of the Great War by Keith Trivett
  • Local landmark: the Old Down Inn by Dennis Chedgy and Julie Dexter
  • A history of the Great War, Part 11: Attrition by William Peacock
  • A mining heritage, Part 5: Alfred and Vera by Dr Barry W. Maule
  • A volunteer’s story: Valerie Ashman by Julia Richardson
  • What a nuisance! by Trisha Heckbert
  • A moonlight ramble, Tom Randall

Issues of Five Arches published in 2017.

Issue 89: Winter 2017.  Available from the Museum shop for £4.00

  • Museum news: recent acquisitions for the Society collection
  • Memories of Shoscombe by John Carter and Philip Holdway
  • From schoolroom to battlefield: Ted Horler by Gill Hogarth
  • A history of the Great War, Part 10: Silence by William Peacock
  • A visit to the Radstock coal mines: a Monkton Coombe school trip from 1884 by Jacqueline Burrows
  • I wish you a merry Christmas by David Cheetham
  • Rambling to Holcombe, Part 2 by Julie Dexter and Dennis Chedgy
  • A mining heritage, Part 4: Sapper George Maule by Dr Barry W. Maule
  • Mendip Engineering and the Mendip Car: Tom Randall’s new book
  • Eric Doughty: a history in football –Peasedown Athletic, The Arsenal, Plymouth Argyle and Radstock by Clem Maidment
  • A Durham miner in Somerset by Anny Northcote and Linda Hughes
  • The Five Arches postcard competition; the results…
  • The 29th Miners’ reunion

Issue 88: Summer 2017. Available from the  Museum Shop for £4.

  • News from the Museum
  • A History of the Harptrees: Part 1 by Gill Hogarth and Harptree History Society
  • Camerton Court by Carol Hann
  • Some memories of Shoscombe School by Una Pope, (nee Stevens)
  • 60 years of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award by John Millard
  • Rambling the Camerton Branch Line, 1958: Part 1
  • Clutton Union and the removal of nuisances 1848-9 by Trisha Heckbert
  • A mining heritage, Part 2: William Frederick Carter by Dr Barry W. Maule
  • Chapel House by Terry Lovell
  • A history of the Great War: Part 8, attrition by W. Peacock
  • From the collection: the Ancient Order of Druids by Anny Northcote

Issue 87: Spring 2017. Available from the  Museum Shop for £4.

  • News from the Museum
  • A History of the Harptrees: Part 1 by Gill Hogarth and Harptree History Society
  • Camerton Court by Carol Hann
  • Some memories of Shoscombe School by Una Pope, (nee Stevens)
  • 60 years of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award by John Millard
  • Rambling the Camerton Branch Line, 1958: Part 1
  • Clutton Union and the removal of nuisances 1848-9 by Trisha Heckbert
  • A mining heritage, Part 2: William Frederick Carter by Dr Barry W. Maule
  • Chapel House by Terry Lovell
  • A history of the Great War: Part 8, attrition by W. Peacock
  • From the collection: the Ancient Order of Druids by Anny Northcote

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