STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES Feature: who recalls the 1981 floods at Burnham-on-Sea when the seas came and swamped the town and left lakes in the Huntspills along the A38 (and that’s why the town now has that massive sea wall)
This article by Harry Mottram was written in 2014 but has been slightly updated It was a Sunday before Christmas…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE Film Review: That’s another fine mess you’ve got me into – Stan & Ollie – heart attacks, booze and judging beauty queens as the duo battle their demons (and their wives) in the twilight of their careers
Props, runners and a busy bright energy filled Hollywood opens John S Baird’s 2018 biopic of Laurel and Hardy before…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES News: Axbridge Pageant 2020’s drop-in recruitment and information evening in January brings in scores of new helpers, volunteers and actors to swell the numbers
The recruitment and information evening on Sunday, January 26th, for the Axbridge Pageant 2020 was a great success with many people…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES Local newspaper review: Bristol Airport expansion’s green light, Iron Age hillfort to be cleared of trees, a new editor for the Mercury, Yatton PO denies sorting is to move to Clevedon and men of a certain age celebrate the end of Dry January in Axbridge
February 6th, 2020. Local Paper Review, Harry Mottram The main sporting news in the Cheddar Valley Gazette is that the village’s footballers…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES Feature: from a dusty bush in Ethiopia, via Italy and Yemen to the Old Almshouse Tea Rooms in Axbridge – Aunt Agatha’s guide to coffee
This article was written in 2013 and has been slightly updated I love a latte. It’s in my five top…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES film review at The Roxy in Axbridge with the European Film Club: Things to Come – she has everything and she has nothing (but at least she has a cat)
Film review: Things to Come (L’avenir). The Roxy Cinema, Axbridge. Pandora the grumpy black cat is the unexpected star of a study…
Rapscallion Magazine: confessions of a wide boy – the history of Britain’s favourite dodgy geezer – how the Spiv emerged out of World War II into popular culture – and is alive and well and living in Axbridge this August
Harry Mottram has a suitcase full of demob suits. Here he relates his life as a spiv I once sold…
AGENDA WEST BUSINESS NEWS: ICSM Credit warns ‘Hold on tight as 2020 looks like a bumpy year’ as companies continue to collapse rivalling the Credit Crunch of 2007-2008
The period after Christmas is often seen as a time for struggling retailers to call it a day having softened…
Axbridge Showcase presents: A Night at the Races (in the town hall so no need to bring binoculars or a tweed deer stalker hat)
The special fun packed evening takes place on Saturday, March 21st, at 7pm, in the town’s equivalent of Aintree –…
Axbridge Chamber of Commerce member Tom Dalley explains the benefit of not basing a company in Bridgwater (as it’s the traffic that’s the problem – caused by Hinkley C construction)
Work on Hinkley Point C continues apace despite the boom it has bought to trade in Somerset along with the…