Cover Picture: Rossiters: the handle makers, at Killings Lane workshops, Leigh-on-Mendip.
Binding Type: Staples (2)
Published by Radstock, Midsomer Norton and District Museum Society.
Cover Price £2.00
A Successful Year and a Bright Future - Chairman, Richard Maggs updates readers on the new museum at Radstock. Clean Coal - Gerald Quarterley unearths an entry from the Paulton Foundry ledger for a coal washing machine. Holidays Remembered - First published in his local Cornish parish magazine, Donald Trewern offered Five Arches the chance to reprint his childhood Radstock holiday memories just before his death. The Steamship "Radstock" - Five years after the Radstock name was given to a Royal Navy destroyer, a Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway built steam coaster appeared in 1925 with the same name. A.J.Cook, National Miners Leader and Man of Somerset - Part 1. Unseen Danger at New Rock Colliery - Spontaneous combustion was a big problem on the Globe Seam at New Rock. Perfect Present - Ideas for Christmas DIY:The Rich Records of Village Parliaments - by David Hayns Rambles to Leigh-on-Mendip - Part 2: Dick & Dennis reluctantly leave the Bell Inn to continue their ramble through Leigh-on-Mendip. A Co-Operative Apprentice - Herbie Down's memories of his apprenticeship at the Coleford Industrial Co-Operative Society. Friends of War Memorials - Maggie Goodall on the national organisation founded in 1995 to combat vandalism, theft and neglect of the nations memorials. Milestones and Landscape Furniture - Jeremy Miln looks at the work of the National Milestone Society. Reverend Skinner (Rector of Camerton 200 years ago) - Part Three: Skinner the Antiquary. "The Good Old Days" by M.E.Ashman nee Wilcox - Unearthed by Dick and Dennis during their Leigh-on-Mendip ramble. Writhlington Manor Revisited - Aristocratic Fairfaxes and (perhaps) regal Carys. Annual Miners Reunion - Report on the September event.