Back Issues published in 2018 – 2017. – Somerset Coalfield Life

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. Keith Trivett.
• Suffrage and Socialism, Pt2: Constance ‘Joan’ Beauchamp. Tom Randall.
• It’s all in the name…… Editor.
• Rambling a foreign field. Kate Pritchard and Dawn Townsend.
• “Great- Great Grandma was born here”.  Anne Miall.
• Was the workhouse ever fit for purpose? Trisha Heckbert.
• Working for Radstock Co-op.  Geoff Weekes and Anny Northcote.
• The Reverend Gardner, Rector of Radstock 1888 -1917. Nick Turner.
• The range in the miner’s cottage. Diane Toogood and Pauline Smith.
• The 30^th annual miner’s reunion.  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”, Cynthia Crocker
• Suffrage and Socialism – Joan and Kay Beauchamp Pt1: family background, Tom Randall
• Slum landlords, Trisha Heckbert
• This green and pleasant land: rambling the flower shows, Dennis Chedgy.
• A history of the Great War, Pt.12: conclusion, William Peacock
• The real ‘Very Adorable Darlings’, 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, 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, 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, Keith Trivett
• Local landmark: the Old Down Inn, Dennis Chedgy and Julie Dexter
• A history of the Great War, Pt.11: Attrition, William Peacock
• A mining heritage, Pt.5: Alfred and Vera, Dr Barry W. Maule
• A volunteer’s story: Valerie Ashman, Julia Richardson
• What a nuisance!, 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, John Carter and Philip Holdway
• From schoolroom to battlefield: Ted Horler, Gill Hogarth
• A history of the Great War, Pt.10: Silence, William Peacock
• A visit to the Radstock coal mines: a Monkton Coombe school trip from 1884, Jacqueline Burrows
• I wish you a merry Christmas, David Cheetham
• Rambling to Holcombe, Pt2, Julie Dexter and Dennis Chedgy
• A mining heritage, Pt.4: Sapper George Maule, 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, Clem Maidment
• A Durham miner in Somerset, 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, Gill Hogarth and Harptree History Society
• Camerton Court, Carol Hann
• Some memories of Shoscombe School, Una Pope, nee Stevens
• 60 years of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, John Millard
• Rambling the Camerton Branch Line, 1958: Part 1
• Clutton Union and the removal of nuisances 1848-9, Trisha Heckbert
• A mining heritage, Part 2: William Frederick Carter, Dr Barry W. Maule
• Chapel House, Terry Lovell
• A history of the Great War: Pt 8, attrition, W. Peacock
• From the collection: the Ancient Order of Druids, Anny Northcote

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

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