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’. Duncan Harper
• Local tokens and other paranumismatica, Pt.1: traders’ farthings from the seventeenth century. Tom Randall
• Who invented the steam engine? Pt.4. David Cheetham.
• Coalfield life in the early 1930s. Keith Trivett.
• Rambles revisited: Writhlington to Buckland Dinham. Dennis Chedgy & Julie Dexter.
• A story of local volunteers, Pt.4: from foreign fields to defence of the realm. Gill Hogarth.
• The royal garden party for V.C. recipients: 26 June 1920. Derek Hunt.
• Memories of a family home in Camerton. Simon Coleman.
• Acting Sergeant Alfred John Woodland. 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”. Dr Ian C. Brown.
• Fanny Mayne and True Briton: setting the record straight. Tom Randall.
• ‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’. Trisha Heckbert.
• Walking in Henry’s footsteps, Pt. 2. Steve Biggs.
• A story of local volunteers, Pt.3: from special service to fun and games. Gill Hogarth.
• Joe Edwards, Trooper, 32nd Army Tank Brigade, Royal Armoured Corps. Nick Waton
• From the Museum archives: a murder most foul? Simon Carter.
• Who invented the steam engine? Pt.3: Boulton and Watt. David Cheetham.
• David Cottle and a brief family history. 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”. Jeff Parsons.
• The early 1920s and the return of peace to the Somerset Coalfield. Keith Trivett.
• Alex Hann: the Cornwall years. With Simon Hann.
• A ramble in search of the Dunkerton neddies. Fanny Mayne.
• Jane Rutherford; or The Miners’ Strike by ‘a friend of the people’ Moorewood Colliery. Tom Randall.
• Who invented the steam engine? Pt.2. David Cheetham.
• A story of local volunteers, Pt.2: from fun and games to home defence. 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. Anne Miall.
• Norton Hill Colliery – rescue and evacuation. John Gibson.
•Who invented the steam engine? David Cheetham.
• Rambling the world, via Frome. Julie Dexter and Sheila Gore.
• The 31st Miners’ Reunion
• A story of local volunteers, Pt 1: from fear of ‘Old Boney’ to fun and games. Gill Hogarth.
• Memories of years ago: the life of a miner’s wife. Barry Maule.
• Walking in Henry Witcombe’s footsteps. Part 1. Steve Biggs.
Issue 94: Summer 2019. Available from the Museum shop for £4.00
• Celebrating the Museum: 20 years on. Nick Hall.
• The passing of a local legend: Alex Hann. Bryn Hawkins.
• Purnells: a missing link. Beth Quigan.
• Oliver Brooks V.C. in the Second World War. Derek Hunt.
• Memories of Oliver Brooks. Col. Brian Thatcher.
• David Fisher’s steam sketches.
• Intrigue in Somerset in the eighteenth century. J.E. Smith
• New Rock: evacuating a colliery. John Gibson.
• Rambling back in time: the scene of the crime………….. Dennis Chedgy.
• The brief coalfield reign of Percy Hurd, M.P. Keith Trivett
• Poor law cads and bounders. Trisha Heckbert.
• Walter Sylvester: the miner’s friend. Barry Maule.
• Understanding the past: remembering one man’s contribution. 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. Eric Brain
• 10 North Road, Midsomer Norton. David Shearn
• A royal visitor: H.R.H. The Countess of Wessex
• The GWR level-crossing signal box at Radstock. Duncan Harper
• The Rambling men…………. Editor
• Talking history: the strengths and weaknesses of oral history. Trisha Heckbert
• Suffrage and Socialism, Pt 3: Kathleen May ‘Kay’ Beauchamp. Tom Randall.
• Peace in the Coalfield: the aftermath of war. Keith Trivett
• Jesse Lovell – a remarkable man. Austin Parsons
• The ending of church rates.
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