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Issues of Five Arches published in 2014

Issue 81; available for £3.50

  • A History of the Great War, Part 2: Christmas on the Western Front by William Peacock
  • Mining the Past: one man’s story, Part 2 by Tony Evans
  • The Midsomer Norton Piano Accordion Band, Part 3: up and down to the 21st anniversary by Peter Barter and Clifford Green
  • The Church Rambles, Part 2: St Mary the Virgin, Emborough by Julie Dexter
  • A family perspective on the Somerset Coalfield, Part 6: A wartime education by John Smith
  • A century of farming at White Ox Mead, Part 2 by Geoffrey Pike
  • Celebration Carnival, Part 1: the origins of a local tradition by Tom Randall

Issue 80; available for £3.50

  • Exhibitions
  • Miners’ Perils – A Coleford miner
  • A century of farming at White Ox Mead by Geoffrey Pike
  • A history of the Great War, Part 1: for King and Country by William Peacock
  • Before the lamps went out
  • The Church Rambles, Part 1: St James’s Church, Camely by Julie Dexter
  • The 8:45 from Hallatrow
  • A family perspective on the Somerset Coalfield, Part 5: A wartime childhood by J.E. Smith
  • Coal from Camerton: Book review
  • The Midsomer Norton Piano Accordion Band, Part 2: Post-war gold years by Peter Barter
  • Mining the Past: one man’s story by Tony Evans

Issue 79; available for £3.50

  • The mystery of the watch and the military medal
  • A marriage made in heaven by Julie Dexter
  • Introducing William John Peacock by Keith Trivett
  • Rambling the Somerset Coalfield by Dennis Chedgy
  • A Family Perspective on the Somerset Coalfield Part 4: Married Life by John E. Smith
  • Tragedy at Chilcompton by Kim Gay
  • More Memories of Growing Up at Terry Hill by Terence Lovell
  • Who was Jack o’ Lent by Tom Randall
  • The Midsomer Norton Piano Accordion Band; Part 1 Making Music by Pete Barter
  • A mystery from the V&A by Julie Dexter

Issues of Five Arches published in 2013

Issue 78; available for £3.50

  • The Somerset Miners, Association archive at Bristol University by Julia Richardson
  • Henry Witcombe: Remembering His Part in the Great War by Steve Biggs
  • Colliery Boy to Transport Pioneer by Gill Hogarth
  • A second ramble round Clutton, Part 2 by Lena Church
  • A Family Perspective on the Somerset Coalfield Part 3: Margaret Ann Smith nee Davies by John E. Smith
  • Public Health in North Somerset: The Cholera Outbreak of 1832 & 1849 Part 3 by Jenny Attwood
  • Growing Up at Terry Hill by Terence Lovell

Issue 77: available for £3.50

  • A local tragedy: remembering the Downside Boys by Inger Fleischer
  • Town, Manor and alternative society, Part 1 by Dr Jonathan West
  • Children of the Pits by Wendy Walker
  • Mining the Past
  • A second ramble round Clutton by Lena Church
  • A Family Perspective on the Somerset Coalfield Part 2: from Prattens to Edgells by John E. Smith
  • Public Health in North Somerset: The Cholera Outbreak of 1832 & 1849 Part 2 by Jenny Attwood
  • Children’s Toys in the Somerset Coalfields by Keith Trivett

Issue 76 : available for £3.50

  • A Family Perspective on the Somerset Coalfield Part 1 by John E. Smith
  • Rambling with the Moore Family: A Writhlington Connection by Dennis Chedgy
  • Forty Years On – celebrating our mining heritage
  • Thomas Edmund Keeling by Brian Dyer
  • Learning the Language – a Glossary on mining terms
  • Fussell’s Trial Balance Lock: A boat lift near Mells by Derrick Hunt & Adrian Tuddenham
  • Public Health in North Somerset: The Cholera Outbreak of 1832 & 1849 Part 1 by Jenny Attwood

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