Back Issues published in 2022 – 2021. – Somerset Coalfield Life

Issue of Five Arches published in 2022

Issue 102: Winter 2022. Available from the Museum shop for £4.50

• Anna Maria Elizabeth Johnson, Authoress of Hinton Blewitt (1842-1887) by Gill Hogarth

• The Coalfield Summer and Autumn of 1939 by Keith Trivett

• Rambles to Coombend by Isobel Cheetham

• Holcombe Mansion House by Larry Cunningham, Linda Hallett & Jan Merchant

• Pt. 5 Co-operative Society dividend checks by Tom Randall

• The Coleford Comforts Fund, Pt 1 by Julie Dexter

• From the Archives; A Military Funeral by Simon Carter

Issues of Five Arches published in 2021.

Issue 101: Winter 2021- 2022: Available from the Museum shop for £4.50

• News from the Museum

• One family’s tragedy. Isobel Cheetham

• Thomas Langley & Barlake Colliery. Simon Carter

• Reflections on the past. Gill Hogarth

• The peaceful years of the late 1930s. Keith Trivett

• Rambling through Welton. Tom Randall & Lucy Tudor

• A story of local volunteers, Pt.7: Fear takes on a new form. Gill Hogarth

• Paranumismatica Pt.4: mining checks in the Somerset Coalfield. Gary Chedgy

• Spanish Flu in the Somerset Coalfield, 1918-1919. Dr Nick Hall

• Durcott Lane, Camerton. Roger Halse

• The 32nd annual miners’ reunion. Julie Dexter

Issue 100: Summer 2021: 5 Arches centenary issue. Available from the Museum shop for £4.00

• Celebrating our 100th issue

• Rail Cops: the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway Police. Departments Norton-Radstock to Bath Green Park, 1866-1928. Alex Andrews

• From the Archives: Bristol to Midsomer Norton, via Auckland, New Zealand. Simon Carter

• Norton Cricket Club, Pt.2: the first 100 years (1878-1978). Graeme King

• The nineteenth-century public house token: paranumismatica, pt.3. Tom Randall

• Rambling through history: Radstock. Dennis Chedgy & Michelle Winfield.

• A glance over my shoulder: growing up in Wellow, Pt.2. Andrew Fussell

• A story of local volunteers, Pt.6: War! Gill Hogarth

• Mary Holbrook of Timsbury: the godmother of goat cheese making. Tony Lawrence

• Greenwell & Radstock Collieries in 1883. Sheila Eyles

Issue 99: Spring 2021. Available from the Museum shop for £4.00

• News from the Museum

• Errata

• A glance over my shoulder: growing up in Wellow, Pt 1. Andrew Fussell

• School outing to Writhlington Coal Mine. Jacqueline Burrows

• Eighteenth and nineteenth century trade tokens: paranumismatica, Pt. 2. Tom Randall

• Poems by an old codger: inspired by a family history of working underground. Neil Davies

• Rambling back to Mells. Dennis Chedgy & Julie Dexter

• Of mounds and men: retracing the steps of Reverend John Skinner of Camerton: a personal review. David Tomalin

• Looking back and thinking ahead. Editor

• Midsomer Norton Cricket Club: the first hundred years. Graeme King

• From the Museum collection: can you help?

• A story of local volunteers, Pt. 5: In peace, depression and fear of further conflict. Gill Hogarth