Issues of Five Arches published in 2016.

Issue 86; Winter 2016. Available for £3.50

  • News from the Museum
  • Ade Macrow, Manse Memories
  • The 28th annual miner’s reunion
  • A Mining Heritage: James and Annie Carter by Barry W. Maule,
  • Rambling to Holcombe via Edford Green by Dennis Chedgy and Julie Dexter
  • Revisiting the batches: the legacy of Aberfan by Julie Dexter
  • From the Museum Society collection: the Brunel connection with Chilcompton by Tom Randall
  • Who remembers Jiggles Orchard? by Isobel Cheetham
  • A history of the Great War: Part 7, counting the cost – Autumn 1916 by W. Peacock
  • Letters home, postcards from World War One by Keith Trivett

Issue 85; Summer 2016. Available for £3.50

  • Celebrating 30 years of Five Arches
  • William Peacock on the Somme
  • A ramble to 1916, in Mells (exploring the village connections with the Somme battlefields)
  • The story of Thomas and John Poynting
  • Remembering the S&D
  • Investigating the mystery of a first aid box

Issue 84; Spring 2016. Available for £3.50.

  • W.G. Parsons & Sons: building contractors, a family firm by Bob & Jeff Parsons
  • Ramble to Pensford Church by Julie Dexter
  • Edward VIII & the Somerst Coalfield – from the Museum Society collection
  • The changing landscape, Part 2 by Robin Athill
  • Memories of Tom Martin, surveyor of the Market Hall, from his relative Alex Hann – with Dave Cocks
  • Life on the Home Front: Women at home and work during the Great War by Keith Trivett
  • Flashback: cinema remembered by Terry Lovell
  • Church Cottage, Timsbury by Sue Langdon

Issues of Five Arches published in 2015.

Issue 83; Winter 2015. Available for £3.50.

  • Racing greyhounds from Clandown by Tom Randall with Charlie Blanning
  • In the beginning… marking the contribution of a special lady by Julie Dexter
  • The Midsomer Norton Piano Accordion Band, Part 5: swan song by Peter Barter and Clifford Green
  • Somerset family in Australia: the story of Jesse and Isabella Humphrys by Brian Dyer
  • Rambles to St Mary’s Church, Hardington by Julie Dexter
  • The changing landscape of Paulton, Part 1 by Scott Hutchinson
  • A history of the Great War, Part 4: casualties of war by William Peacock
  • A year at war: life on the Home Front in 1915 by Keith Trivett
  • More ceramic mystery by Tom Randall

Issue 82; Spring 2015. Available for £3.50

  • Radstock lives remembered – World War One: Hubert Thomas Hockey MC MM JP by Dr Tony Lawrence
  • Remembering… by David Strawbridge & John Beauchamp
  • News and events
  • Surviving the sinking of the Lusitania: Press report
  • A history of the Great War, Part 3: A birthday present for the Kaiser by William Peacock
  • The Midsomer Norton Piano Accordion Band, Part 4: the ‘swinging sixties’ by Peter Barter and Clifford Green
  • Rambles to a Somerset coal miner by Amicus Mirror
  • A century of farming at White Ox Mead, Part 3: ringing the changes by Geoffrey Pike
  • A family perspective on the Somerset coalfield, Part 7: recollections of the collieries by J.E. Smith
  • Celebrating carnival, Part 2: the West Country circuits by Tom Randall

 

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