Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

Friday, 1 August 2025

Mounting Blocks

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Mounting blocks are used to assist people in mounting and dismounting from horses or carts.   They were very common in Britain until the la...
Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Roger Bacon: Franciscan monk, philosopher, scientist and scholar

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Roger Bacon was a medieval philosopher and scientist.  He was a great proponent of the importance of experimental science.  He was the first...
Sunday, 15 June 2025

Fabulous Fish

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These are the artistic representations of fish that I have found on my travels around Somerset. Kneeler in Exford Church Fish bike racks at ...
Sunday, 1 June 2025

Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Railway

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The Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway ran from Ashcombe Road in Weston-super-Mare to Portishead via Worle, Wick St Lawrence, Clevedon...
Thursday, 1 May 2025

Millennium Commemorations

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Communities in Somerset chose to mark the year 2000 in a number of ways, including seats, monuments, village signs, sculptures, stained glas...
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