STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES Feature: A guide to the railway line back in 1899 when Axbridge had Petty Sessions in the Court House and it cost 2/- to visit Cheddar Caves
What was it like to visit the Strawberry Line in 1899? Using an 1899 guidebook Harry Mottram took a trip from Clevedon…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES Theatre Review: From monochrome to full colour and from ‘Bah Humbug’ to ‘Merry Christmas’, Bristol Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol combines music, movement and humour in a refreshingly creative take on Charles Dickens’ story of redemption
A Christmas Carol. Bristol Old Vic Theatre, Bristol It’s a dark and dangerous world in Lee Lyford’s steam punk inspired…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – Theatre Review: A very different Snow White at the Tobacco Factory as she wears a poncho and meets seven mathematically challenged vegan woodland people (rather than dwarfs) – but her step-mother is definitely delightfully evil
Theatre Review: Snow White, Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol Step into the alternative world of director Alex Byrne’s Snow White, where vegan…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – FEATURE: memories of the Big Freeze in the winter of 1962/63 and when steam trains connected Wells and Banwell (and when naughty school boys could lark about in the compartment carriages)
An article in the Strawberry Line Times magazine by Harry Mottram a few years ago about the winter of 1962/63…
The age of the train is returning – the tickets today are highly expensive but new lines and stations are planned – will the original branch lines closed by Beeching reopen?
Infrastructure required Back in 2015 Harry Mottram mused the possible return of a new age of the train. Michael Portillo…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES THEATRE REVIEW: Funny and feisty, this production of David Hare’s Skylight unpacks universal themes of love, betrayal and death with style and pace (spaghetti included) in a grungy London flat
Theatre review: Skylight. Axbridge Town Hall Super Mario, UB40 and the good old Yellow Pages. Yes, we’re transported back in…
Strawberry Line Times to restart in 2020 as an online publication
The magazine Strawberry Line Times was published covering the area of the former railway line between Yatton and Wells as…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – FEATURE: memories of the Big Freeze in the winter of 1962/63 and when steam trains connected Wells and Banwell (and when naughty school boys could lark about in the compartment carriages)
Latest feature: An article by Harry Mottram in the Strawberry Line Times magazine four years ago about the winter of…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – FEATURE: building Cheddar reservoir in the 1930s with man power, steam engines and horses and carts (and there was no opening ceremony)
Harry Mottram on the history behind the building of Cheddar reservoir – which he claims to be in the shape…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – FEATURE: how a national asset has been transformed from a railway to part of the National Cycle Network (but there’s still plenty more work to do to link it up to Wells and beyond)
The section between Cheddar and Axbridge makes for a nice walk The Strawberry Line has changed but there is still…
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