Long Ashton Research Station

 In 1903 Lady Emily Smyth, widow of Sir Greville Smyth (owner of the Ashton Court Estate) provided six hectares of land in Long Ashton so that a National Fruit and Cider Institute could be set up. In 1912 Lady Emily Smyth gave more land to allow the expansion of the institute.  At this time it became the University of Bristol’s Department of Agricultural and Horticultural Research and it was renamed the Long Ashton Research Station.

During the early years research concentrated on improving the growing of cider apples and the production of cider.  Later its remit widened to include most fruit crops, especially pears, apples, plums, strawberries and blackcurrants. Many new varieties of fruit which were developed were named after local towns, rivers and hills e.g. the Cheddar Cross apple, Mendip cross blackcurrant and Severn Cross plum.

In the 1930s work on fruit juices and syrups led to the commercial production of blackcurrant juice (which was later marketed as Ribena) and rose hip syrup.  These were important home grown sources of vitamin C during the Second World War.  Research into willows started in the 1940s and continued with breeding varieties for biomass production.

In the 1980s the staff at Long Ashton began research into arable crops.  In 1986 fruit research stopped at Long Ashton when this work was transferred to East Malling Research Station in Kent.

Long Ashton Research Station closed in 2003 and many areas of its work were transferred to Rothamsted Experimental Station (now Rothamsted Research) at Harpenden in Hertfordshire.

• The key achievements of the Long Ashton Research Station were:         
• Research into cider making
• Research into plant breeding, nutrition, crop diseases, weeds, cropping systems and crop protection, especially spray techniques
• The creation of the National Willow Collection (which is now located at Rothamsted) and research into the use of willows for biomass production and gasification.
• Research into genetically modified crops, especially wheat and oilseed rape.
• Finding ways to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides on crops such as wheat, barley and oilseed rape.
• Research into the production of high value chemicals in plants and the role of hormones in plant development.

The site at Long Ashton was sold off and redeveloped for housing.  However its existence is commemorated by an old cider press and in the street names on the new housing estate – Pear Tree Avenue, Bramley Copse, Perry Road and Blackcurrant Drive.

Old cider press on Pear Tree Avenue, commemorating 100 years of agricultural and horticultural research at Long Ashton

Pear Tree Avenue and Bramley Copse - a reminder of the site's past

Blackcurrant Drive, Long Ashton

Dawn Redwood

The Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) tree was discovered growing near the remote village of Mo-tao-chi in the Chinese province of Sichuan in the 1940s. In 1946 it was identified by Professor Cheng of China’s National Central University as a Metasequoia, a species of tree which was thought to have been extinct for 5 million years. Dawn Redwoods are fast growing deciduous conifers.  They have now been planted in many parks and botanical gardens but they are still a critically endangered species in the wild.  The Dawn Redwood at Long Ashton Research Station now stands on Pear Tree Avenue. 

Dawn Redwood on Pear Tree Avenue

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff near Cardiff on 13^th September 1916. His parents, Harald and Sofie Dahl, were Norwegians and his father was a shipbroker. In 1918 his sister Else was born and the family moved to Radyr, a village just outside Cardiff.  In 1920 Roald’s 7 year old sister Astri died of appendicitis, a few weeks later his father died at the age of 57 and later the same year Roald’s youngest sister Asta was born.  In 1921 the family moved back to Llandaff.

From 1923-25 Roald attended Llandaff Cathedral School.  In 1925 he went as a boarder to St Peter’s School in Shrubbery Road, Weston-super-Mare.  He was very homesick at first but remained at the school until 1929 when he was 13.  He then attended Repton Public School until he was 18.  St Peter’s School closed and was demolished in the 1970s and a housing estate was built on the site.  The only physical reminder of its existence is one of the roads, which is named St Peters Avenue.  Roald Dahl’s autobiography, Boy, includes several chapters about his time at St Peter’s School.

St Peters Avenue, Weston-super-Mare

Blue plaque on 2 St Peters Avenue, Weston-super-Mare

In 1934 Roald began working for Shell Oil in Tanganyika but at the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the RAF in Nairobi, Kenya and learnt to fly a Tiger Moth plane.  He was severely injured in a plane crash in Libya in 1940 and as a result of his injuries he was no longer able to fly and returned to Britain in 1941.

In 1942 he was posted to Washington DC as an Assistant Air Attaché in the British Embassy.  He remained in the USA for 4 years and it was during this time that he began to write and had his first book, The Gremlins, published.  In 1946 his first short story collection, Over to You, was published and he returned to the UK.  He moved to Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire with his mother and sister Asta.

In 1953 he married the American actress Patricia Neal and they had 4 daughters and a son together, although their daughter Olivia died of measles encephalitis aged 7 in 1962.  In 1954 they bought Little Whitefield Cottage in Great Missenden.  They later renamed it Gipsy House.  This was the place where Roald Dahl lived for the rest of his life.  He wrote many of his stories sitting in an armchair in a writing hut, which he had built in the garden of his house.

Gipsy House, Great Missenden

In 1961 Roald Dahl’s first famous children’s book, James and the Giant Peach, was published in the USA.  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was published in the USA in 1964.  Both were published in the UK in 1967 and so was The Magic Finger.  Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film, You Only Live Twice, which was released in 1967. Many more of his stories and books of poetry for children, along with several short story collections for adults, were published in the 1970s and 1980s. 

In 1981 Roald separated from his wife Patricia and in 1983 he married Felicity Crosland. Esio Trot was the last book to be published in his lifetime.  He died on 23^rd November 1990 aged 74 and was buried in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul’s Church in Great Missenden.  His last book, The Minpins, was published posthumously in 1991.

Roald Dahl's grave

Many of Roald Dahl’s short stories and children’s books have been made into films or television programmes.  He is still one of the world’s best-selling authors.

In 2005 the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre was opened in Great Missenden.

Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden

Enormous Crocodile sculpture, Cardiff Bay

Norwegian Church in Cardiff Bay

Roald Dahl's family regularly worshipped at this church in its original location in Cardiff Docks, close to where the Millennium Centre now stands. It was dismantled in 1987 and re-erected in its current position in 1992.  It is now used as an arts centre and café.

St Peter's on the Quay, Minehead

St Peter's on the Quay is a small chapel sandwiched between the Old Ship Aground pub and the Echo Beach Cafe.  The building housing it was originally constructed as a storehouse by a local merchant and ship owner called Robert Quirke in c1628.  He intended it to be rented out, with the income generated going towards the upkeep of Quirke's Almshouses in Market House Lane, Minehead.  The almshouses were built in 1630.  The chapel is located in what was originally the outer of two cellars, which were originally called Gibraltar Cellar.  The building was originally thatched.  The inner cellar was demolished when the Pier Hotel (now the Old Ship Aground) was built in around 1899.

According to local tradition, Robert Quirke and his brother were caught in a storm at sea and he vowed that if they survived he would sell both the ship and its cargo and give the proceeds to the poor of Minehead.  The ship eventually reached Minehead and he kept his vow.  The timbers from the ship were used to build the almshouses and the bell in the chapel's bell-cote is said to have come from the ship.

The parish took over the running of the property c1830 but by 1887 it was in a state of disrepair.  In 1899 Rev Francis Etherington, the Vicar of Minehead, turned the upper floor into a seamen's shelter and reading room after. In 1907 the ground floor was converted into a sailors' chapel and in 1910 it was dedicated to St Peter.  Saint Peter was working as a fisherman when Jesus called him to be one of his apostles.  The parish purchased the chapel in 1970.

St Peter's Chapel showing the stairs to the Upper Room

Inside the chapel

St Peter themed altar rail

St Peter was a fisherman before he became one of Jesus's apostles.  His symbol is crossed keys: Jesus promised Peter that he would give him the keys to the kingdom of Heaven (Matthew Ch16 v19).

Stained glass window

St Peter in stained glass

This was given by the James family in memory of Edwin John and Mary Ellen James.

Painting of Jesus walking on water (Sea of Galilee), hanging behind the altar

The Chard Canal

The idea of building a ship canal to link the English Channel to the Bristol Channel and thus cut out the long sea journey around Lands End, was first proposed in 1769.  Further schemes were promoted in 1794, 1809 and 1824.  The exact routes varied but all started in the Seaton/Beer area and used the river valleys of the Axe, Isle or Tone and the Parrett and all crossed the Blackdown Hills at Chard.  Several surveys were completed but the costs of all of them were prohibitively high.

By the early 1800s the expanding town of Chard had an increasing need for a cheap method of transport to convey coal, building materials and food to the town and to carry woollen and lace textiles made in the town to markets elsewhere in England.  By the 1830s James Green, who was Devon's Surveyor of Bridges, had developed a type of canal that used short tub-boats, which could be raised and lowered using boat lifts or inclined planes.

In 1827 The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal opened.  In 1830 a group of people from Chard approached James Green with a proposal for a feeder canal linked to the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal but the canal's committee were not interested at this point.  However in 1833 a scheme was proposed to improve the navigation of the River Parrett to a point upstream of Langport, with a canal coming off it and leading to Ilminster and Chard.  This would have meant a loss of trade on the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, so James Green was commissioned to survey a route for a canal from the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal at Creech St Michael to Chard via Ilminster.  His proposals were accepted but the engineer chosen for the construction was 22 year old Sydney Hall.  

The Chard Canal was mainly financed by 5 wealthy men from Bristol, who had also invested in the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal.  Acts of Parliament, which allowed the construction of the Chard Canal, were passed in 1834, 1840 and 1841.  Work on the canal began at Wrantage in 1835.  Construction of the Chard Reservoir, which was the main source of water for the canal, began in 1839.  The canal was officially opened between Creech St Michael and Ilminster or 15th July 1841.  The last section to be completed was the Chard Common Incline, which was opened on 24th May 1842.  The original estimate of the cost of construction was £57,000 but the eventual cost was about £140,000

The Chard Canal was 13.5 miles long and had 5 sections at different levels, which were linked by 4 inclined planes at Chard Common (86 feet), Ilminster (82 feet), Wrantage (27 feet) and Thornfalcon (28 feet).  There was a lock at Dowlish Ford, 4 aqueducts and three tunnels - at Herne Hill (300 yards long), Crimson Hill (2000 yards long) and Lillesdon (200 yards long).  The original proposal was to dig a deep cutting across one side of Herne Hill, with an aqueduct over the Chard to Ilminster turnpike road but this was later changed to a tunnel.  The canal was 23 feet wide and 3 feet deep in most places but some parts may have been as narrow as 12 feet wide.  The tub boats were pulled by horses.

At first trade on the canal was good.  Coal from South Wales carried by the Chard Canal was then taken by road to local villages and to towns as far away as Lyme Regis, and Sidmouth. The amount of goods transported soon began to decrease, due to competition from railways.  The canal never made a profit and in the 1850s there were several unsuccessful attempts to convert the canal into a railway.  The Bristol and Exeter Railway purchased the Chard Canal for £5,945, in order to prevent the London and South Western Railway from buying it and converting it into a railway.  The Bristol and Exeter Railway closed the Chard Canal some time between 1866 and 1868.

Wildlife pond where the Chard Canal once met the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal at Creech St Michael

Pillbox in a former inn at the junction of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal and the Chard Canal in Creech St Michael

Diagram showing the inclined planes and tunnels on the Chard Canal

Map of the Chard Canal

Bridgwater and Taunton Canal at Creech St Michael

 Chard Canal aqueduct over the River Tone at Creech St Michael

This aqueduct (grid reference ST 271 254) can be viewed from a public footpath. Nothing now remains of another aqueduct, which Brunel built nearby to carry the Chard Canal over the railway line.

Remains of the Chard Canal aqueduct at Wrantage

 This once carried the canal over a small stream.  Grid reference: ST 305 228

Aqueduct at Wrantage

Pillar of the Chard Canal Aqueduct at Wrantage

Remains of the aqueduct, which once carried the Chard Canal over the A378 at Wrantage

Entrance to the Crimson Hill tunnel

Chard Canal at Ilminster

Chard Reservoir

Further reading:

The Chard Canal by Chard History Group, published in 1972

St Leonard's Chapel, Tivington

St Leonard's Chapel in Tivington in the parish of Selworthy, was built in the 14th century as a chapel-of-ease. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in the 1530s, it was secularised.  A fireplace was added and an extension was built on the east end.  At various times it was used as a storehouse, a barn and a school.  It was restored in 1896 by the Acland family, who owned the Holnicote estate.  It was reconsecrated in 1940.  The bell is said to have come from the Acland's yacht the Lady of St Kilda.

The extension to the chapel is now a National Trust cottage called Dunkery View, which is rented out as a self-catering holiday cottage. Both the chapel and the cottage have thatched roofs.

The side of St Leonard's Chapel at Tivington

Entrance to St Leonard's Chapel showing the bell

Interior of the chapel

Fireplace in St Leonard's Chapel

Interior of St Leonard's Chapel

Entrance gate at the side of Dunkery View

Dunkery View cottage

Hinkley Point's Bat Bridge

Part of a mature hedgerow in the middle of the Hinkley Point C site, known as Green Lane,  was removed in the early phase of the construction project.  This meant that the local barbastelle bats were no longer able to use it as a navigation corridor to guide them to their feeding areas.  Barbastelle bats are extremely rare and protected by law, so a "bat bridge"  was constructed by the company Kier on the line of Green Lane, so that the bats could echolocate their way along it.  A bat house was built to the south of the site to provide bats with a place to roost and hibernate.

Bat bridge viewed from outside the construction site, December 2016

Bat bridge at Hinkley Point

Royal Jubilees

A jubilee is a special anniversary of an event, especially one celebrating 25 (silver), 50 (gold) or 60 (diamond) years of a reign, organisation or activity.  Royal Jubilees are an occasion to celebrate the life and reign of a monarch.  

The only British monarchs to have reigned long enough to celebrate their golden jubilees are Henry III, Edward III, James VI, George III, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II.  

Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee on 20th and 21st June 1887. She celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in June 1897. 

King George V celebrated his Silver Jubilee in 1935.

Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Silver Jubilee in 1977, her Golden Jubilee in 2002, her Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and her Platinum Jubilee in 2022.  

In cities, towns and villages across Britain monuments, buildings, clock towers, bandstands, fountains, obelisks, seats, lamps, stained glass windows, sundials, pulpits, gates, village signs, almshouses, stones and statues were erected; murals, mosaics and gardens were created; church kneelers were sewn and trees were planted to commemorate these historic events, many of which are still in existence today.  

In Clevedon a bandstand was erected to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887 and in 1897 Sir Edmund Elton gave a clock tower to the town to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee.

Bandstand on Clevedon Seafront

Clock Tower, Clevedon

In Lower Langford Sidney Hill built a row of almshouses in 1887, which he called Victoria Jubilee Langford Homes.  

Victoria Jubilee Langford Homes

In nearby Churchill a clock tower was built by Foster and Wood of Bristol for Sidney Hill in 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.  

Clock tower, Churchill

In 2002, to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, the “Hands of Friendship” sculpture was carved from the remains of a Wellingtonia tree (giant sequoia or redwood), which had been planted to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Jubilee.  The sculpture was erected at the junction of Dinghurst Road and Bristol Road in Churchill.

Hand of Friendship Sculpture, Churchill

There is a Jubilee Stone on Backwell Hill, which was originally erected to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897.  The dates of George V’s Silver Jubilee and Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees are also inscribed upon it, together with the coronation dates of Edward VII, George V, George VI and Elizabeth II.

Jubilee Stone, Backwell Hill

Jubilee Stone, Backwell Hill

There is another Jubilee Stone on the south west edge of Martin’s Wood at Barrow Hill near Barrow Gurney.

In Flax Bourton the clock on the tower of St Michael’s Church has a crown and the date 1897 on it and outside the village hall a stone has been erected to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012.  The village also has a Jubilee Inn.

Flax Bourton Church Clock

Jubilee Inn, Flax Bourton

Flax Bourton's Jubilee Stone

Gates with crowns and EIIR on them at West Monkton Village Hall 

These were erected to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee

Tree in Kingston St Mary planted to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

Pottery mural on the side of a house in St Thomas Street, Wells, commemorating Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in 2012

Clock Tower in East Harptree

It was erected to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

Side of the Jubilee Seat near Over Stowey 

This was originally built to commemorate King George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935 but it also has plaques on it celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation, Gold and Diamond Jubilees

Jubilee Seat near Over Stowey

Kilve Jubilee Garden behind the village hall

This was planted to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.

Kilve Jubilee Garden

Plaque in Kilve's Jubilee Garden

Stoke St Mary's Golden Jubilee Stone, 2002

When the Queen was crowned in 1953, Stoke St Mary commemorated the event with a bus stop!

Stained glass window in St Giles' Church, Thurloxton, which commemorates Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee

Stained glass in St Giles Church, Thurloxton, which commemorates Queen Victoria's accession to the throne in 1837 and Golden Jubilee in 1887

Jubilee Hut at Webber's Post

The original hut was constructed to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

Stone seat at the top of Ham Hill

This was erected to commemorate King George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935

Jubilee Clock, Minehead

This was erected to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in 2012

Jubilee and Coronation Stone at the top of Brent Knoll

Jubilee and Coronation Stone at the top of Brent Knoll

Jubilee and Coronation Stone at the top of Brent Knoll

Diamond Jubilee bench overlooking the Milverton bypass roundabout

Surely there must be a better view than this in Milverton?!

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the Milverton Diamond Jubilee bench

Bench end in Milverton Church to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee in 1977

Victoria Hall in Radstock - this was built to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897

Plaque on Victoria Hall, Radstock

Stone outside Brent Knoll Village Hall commemorating Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee in 2002

Mosaic commemorating Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, Priorswood, Taunton

Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Garden, Priorswood, Taunton

Platinum Jubilee mosaic in the Diamond Jubilee Garden, Priorswood, Taunton

Platinum Jubilee mosaic in the Diamond Jubilee Garden, Priorswood, Taunton

Queen Elizabeth II mural, pedestrian bridge over the railway line,            Station Road, Wellington

This colourful mural was commissioned by Wellington Town Council from Taunton based Aerosol Art to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022.  It features key events that took place during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, including Concorde, the Moon landings, the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, the opening of the Channel Tunnel, the cloning of Dolly the sheep, the death of Princess Diana, the marriage of William and Kate, the 2012 London Olympics and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Golden Jubilee, 2002

Platinum Jubilee, 2022

Platinum Jubilee Floral Cascade, Stogumber Church

Platinum Jubilee Floral Cascade, Stogumber Church

Queen Elizabeth II and Paddington tea party sketch from the 2022 Platinum Jubilee celebrations

These wooden sculptures are in the Kia Ora garden in Cullompton, Devon

Queen Elizabeth II and Paddington TV sketch from the 2022 Platinum Jubilee celebrations

These two metal head sculptures can be found in The Avenue, Minehead.

Platinum Jubilee oak tree, Piele Drive, Taunton

This was planted by 3 nonagenarian residents

Platinum Jubilee Tree, Wellington Park

This tree was planted as part of the Queen's Green Canopy initiative.

Jubilee Garden, Cannington

Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee kneeler in Kilve Church

Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee kneeler, St Andrew's Church, Chew Magna

Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee kneeler, All Saints' Church, Wrington

Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee kneeler

 in St Andrew's Church, Dowlish Wake

Kneelers, St Mary's Church, Ashill

These kneelers commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Silver, Golden, Diamond and Platinum Jubilees.

Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee monument next to the Boat Museum in Watchet

Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee bench in Somerton

Another Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee bench in Somerton

Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee bench, South Petherton churchyard

Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee bench, Ilminster

Corfe village green

 The land was given to the parishioners of Corfe to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.

Analemmatic Sundial on Minehead seafront

This sundial was provided by West Somerset District Council with the support of Minehead Town Council to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty, the Queen in June 2002.  The names of the towns in West Somerset (Minehead, Williton, Watchet and Dulverton) are arranged around the centre and further out the names of all the parishes in West Somerset are listed in alphabetical order in a ring.

Plaque in Crewkerne commemorating the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's Diamond Jubilee visit to the town on 2nd May 2012.

Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Gate, St George's Church, Bicknoller

Lamp at the entrance to St Andrew's Church, Chew Stoke

According to the plaque on the wall, "This lamp was erected by public subscription in commemoration of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 1897"

Pulpit, Church of St James the Less, Halse

This pulpit was designed and carved by William Josiah Giles.  It was given to the church by the villagers of Halse to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.  Symbols of the four gospels are carved on each corner.

Stained glass window commemorating Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897

All Saints' Church, East Huntspill

Stained glass window commemorating Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887

Church of St John the Evangelist, Staplegrove

Village sign, West Huntspill

This commemorates Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee in 2002.

Jubilee Garden, Norton-sub-Hamdon

Robin collage, Jubilee Garden, Norton-sub-Hamdon

Owl sculpture, Jubilee Garden, Norton-sub-Hamdon

Millennium Wood, Nether Stowey with its Diamond Jubilee Extension

800 trees were planted by children from Nether Stowey Primary School and local residents in 2000 and 2001 to celebrate the Millennium.  The wood was extended in 2012 to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.

Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

The Victoria Art Gallery in Bridge Street in Bath was built to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.  It was designed by John McKean Brydon and opened in 1900.

Henrietta Park, Bath

This park, which covers 4 hectares, was opened to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.

Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Plaque, North Curry

This plaque was given by Lady Mary Stewart-Wilson, to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.  It was made by local stonemason Duncan Varley and he installed it in the wall of North Curry Parish Council's office and community coffee shop in November 2023.

Riverside Jubilee Walk, Dunster

This walk alongside the River Avill in Dunster Marsh was opened in 2012 and named in honour of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.

Jubilee Hall, Winsham

This was built to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887 and is still in use as a village hall nearly 140 years later.  It was built by Lord Bridport of Cricket St Thomas for use by the villagers as a meeting place and for educational purposes.

Animal themed bench, Victoria Park, Frome

Victoria Park in Frome opened in May 1888 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. It was Frome's first public park.

Jubilee Pond, Dulverton

This pond on Abbot's Way was restored for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee in 2022.

     

Jubilee gates, Baltonsborough

These gates at the entrance to the war memorial garden in Baltonsborough commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.

                                                                                 

Jubilee Memorial Cottages, Crimchard, Chard

These two cottages were built to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

This sign, now on display at Chard Museum, commemorates Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.