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Somerset memories
The Roman Way
We moved to Glastonbury in 1994 and left in 2000.
We loved our time there and have wonderful memories of walking our dogs along Wearyall Hill and across the fields at the back of our house then along the banks of the River Brue. We were able to sit up in bed with a cup of tea in the morning and look at the sunrise over Glastonbury Tor. A very special place that we go back and visit often.
A memory of Glastonbury contributed by Beverley Thouless
School
As a 13-year old lad freshly returned from the United States (to which my Dad had been posted for oil shipment duties), I found myself one September day a little teary-eyed at the doors of Edgarley Hall. I did not know then that I was about to start the most wonderful experience of all my school days. The Hall was then the junior school for Millfield in Street. It was also a mini-heaven for boys who were as ready to learn as much as they wanted to scramble up and down the Tor, fish in the Brue, go to the flicks in Glastonbury, play cricket and soccer throughout Somerset, and just generally wake up to a world of woods, wildlife, ...read more here
A memory of Edgarley contributed by John Sansom
The Ring o' Bells Public House, Meare
The building on the extreme right of the photograph used to be the Ring o' Bells Public House, owned by my great grandfather, Jesse Laver Difford. It was initially called The Grapevine Inn, or was called that when my grandmother was born there, in 1880 and its name changed to the Ring o' Bells at some time later.
A memory of Meare contributed by Ann Lilly
The station
Our cottage in West Street used to almost back on to the railway line. We lived next door to Mr and Mrs Dummet (Aunty Mable and Uncle Ern) next door again was the telephone exchange (I think a boy called Michael Elliot lived there) then there was Station Lane then the Alms Houses. I remember when we moved up to the Old Brewery House I couldn't sleep because I really missed hearing the trains go by. We were all sad when they closed the station.
A memory of Somerton contributed by Denise Lazenby
Extracts From Street & Somerset books
An intriguing photograph - are the men beside the pile of stones carrying out repairs or new construc-
tion? It looks as though they may be finishing work on the wall in the foreground, perhaps linked to the
new frontage for the main building constructed around this time. The wall was probably demolished
when the factory was extended in 1933.
An extract from from"Glastonbury Photographic Memories".
To reach our final village, Pilton, we must
leave our straight route at East Pennard and
travel almost due north for a couple of miles
or so. Pilton is a large but quite dispersed
village beside the Glastonbury to Shepton
Mallet road, and we are now some six miles
from the former.
The parish church, dedicated to St John
the Baptist, developed from the Norman
period onward through the Middle Ages, and
is down in a dip at the junction of several
streets. The church has an attractive Norman
south door, with corbels with heads of a bish-
op and two angels inside the porch. Inside
there is an Easter sepulchre, and the nave
and north aisle have Somerset-style timber
tie-beam roofs with carvings of angels.
Next to the church there is the manor
house. It was established in the 13th century
as a residence of the Abbots of Glastonbury
and added to by them for the next couple
of hundred years. After the Dissolution, it
passed into private hands and what we see
today from the outside is the result of various
alterations made during the 17th, 18th and
19th centuries, including some by one of the
Earls of Hereford who owned the place in the
17th century. In the yard at the back there is a
rare survival, a dovecote dating from the 13th
or 14th century.
An extract from from"Glastonbury Photographic Memories".
An intriguing photograph - are the men beside the pile of stones carrying out repairs or new construc-
tion? It looks as though they may be finishing work on the wall in the foreground, perhaps linked to the
new frontage for the main building constructed around this time. The wall was probably demolished
when the factory was extended in 1933.
An extract from from"Glastonbury Photographic Memories".
Now around to the south-west side of Glastonbury, where
Wearyall Hill lies between the town and the river Brue. The
name is a corruption of ‘Wirral Hill’, a deer-park established
by the Abbots. This view, from the north, is across country-
side, whereas today the foreground is occupied by housing
and an industrial estate. The Glastonbury Thorn on the
hilltop left of the wood is missing from the photograph.
Although this is said to be the original Thorn, the
photograph shows how it needs to be re-grafted every
century or so.
An extract from from"Glastonbury Photographic Memories".
A view that has changed more
than in the previous two. The
two 18th century buildings on
the left are still there, as is the
smaller one beyond. The next
one, however, has been replaced
by the junction with The Archers
Way. Then, the tall building
belonging to Brooks & Sons the
Drapers, who boast of being
established in 1831, has been
replaced by the Post Office,
which has a datestone GR 1938.
An extract from from"Glastonbury Photographic Memories".