Issues of Five Arches published in 2020.

Issue 98: Winter 2020. Available from the Museum shop for £4.00

  • News from the Museum
  • Radstock’s ‘Marble Arch’ by Duncan Harper
  • Local tokens and other paranumismatica, Part 1: Traders’ farthings from the seventeenth century by Tom Randall
  • Who invented the steam engine? Part 4 by David Cheetham
  • Coalfield life in the early 1930s by Keith Trivett
  • Rambles revisited: Writhlington to Buckland Dinham by Dennis Chedgy & Julie Dexter
  • A story of local volunteers, Part 4: from foreign fields to defence of the realm by Gill Hogarth
  • The royal garden party for V.C. recipients: 26 June 1920 by Derek Hunt
  • Memories of a family home in Camerton by Simon Coleman
  • Acting Sergeant Alfred John Woodland by Duncan Brownlie

Issue 97: Summer 2020. Available from the Museum shop for £4.00

  • News from the Museum
  • ‘Treasures from my grandmother’s notebook’ or ‘How a Radstock girl survived the Blitz’ by Dr Ian C Brown
  • Fanny Mayne and True Briton: setting the record straight by Tom Randall
  • ‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’ by Trisha Heckbert
  • Walking in Henry’s footsteps, Part 2 by Steve Biggs
  • A story of local volunteers, Part 3: from special service to fun and games by Gill Hogarth
  • Joe Edwards, Trooper, 32nd Army Tank Brigade, Royal Armoured Corps by Nick Waton
  • From the Museum archives: a murder most foul? by Simon Carter
  • Who invented the steam engine? Part 3: Boulton and Watt by David Cheetham
  • David Cottle and a brief family history by David and Sandra Ford

Issue 96: Spring 2020. Available from the Museum shop for £4.00

  • News from the Museum
  • ‘Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be’ or ‘Completing the circle’ by Jeff Parsons
  • The early 1920s and the return of peace to the Somerset Coalfield by Keith Trivett
  • Alex Hann: the Cornwall years with Simon Hann
  • A ramble in search of the Dunkerton neddies by Fanny Mayne
  • Jane Rutherford; or The Miner’s Strike by ‘a friend of the people’ Moorewood Colliery by Tom Randall
  • Who invented the steam engine? Part 2 by David Cheetham
  • A story of local volunteers, Part 2: from fun and games to home defence by Gill Hogarth

Issues of Five Arches published in 2019.

Issue 95: Winter 2019. Available from the Museum shop for £4.00

  • The 75th anniversary of the Double Hills disaster by Anne Miall
  • Norton Hill Colliery – rescue and evacuation by John Gibson
  • Who invented the steam engine? by David Cheetham
  • Rambling the world, via Frome by Julie Dexter and Sheila Gore
  • The 31st Miners’ Reunion
  • A story of local volunteers, Part 1: from fear of ‘Old Boney’ to fun and games by Gill Hogarth
  • Memories of years ago: the life of a miner’s wife by Barry Maule
  • Walking in Henry Witcombe’s footsteps, Part 1 by Steve Biggs

Issue 94: Summer 2019. Available from the Museum shop for £4.00

  • Celebrating the Museum: 20 years on by Nick Hall
  • The passing of a local legend: Alex Hann by Bryn Hawkins
  • Purnells: a missing link by Beth Quigan
  • Oliver Brooks V.C. in the Second World War by Derek Hunt
  • Memories of Oliver Brooks, Col. by Brian Thatcher
  • David Fisher’s steam sketches
  • Intrigue in Somerset in the eighteenth century by J.E. Smith
  • New Rock: evacuating a colliery by John Gibson
  • Rambling back in time: the scene of the crime by Dennis Chedgy
  • The brief coalfield reign of Percy Hurd, M.P. by Keith Trivett
  • Poor law cads and bounders by Trisha Heckbert
  • Walter Sylvester: the miner’s friend by Barry Maule
  • Understanding the past: remembering one man’s contribution by Julie Dexter and Dennis Chedgy
  • From the Museum Society collection

Issue 93: Spring 2019. Available from the Museum shop for £4.00

  • Five Arches bids a fond farewell to old friends
  • ‘Miss Collinson of Clutton’ – Letty Ada Collinson: an enigmatic pioneer photographer by Eric Brain
  • 10 North Road, Midsomer Norton by David Shearn
  • A royal visitor: H.R.H. The Countess of Wessex
  • The GWR level-crossing signal box at Radstock by Duncan Harper
  • The Rambling men.. Editor
  • Talking history: the strengths and weaknesses of oral history by Trisha Heckbert
  • Suffrage and Socialism, Part 3: Kathleen May ‘Kay’ Beauchamp by Tom Randall
  • Peace in the Coalfield: the aftermath of war by Keith Trivett
  • Jesse Lovell – a remarkable man by Austin Parsons
  • The ending of church rates

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