STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES Video: snow and ice at Cheddar Reservoir back in 2018 – or was it 2012? Anyway – it was very cold – some footage of a Siberian scene
Video athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TfbbyQI55U Built in the 1930s Cheddar Reservoir in Somerset lies between the town of Axbridge and the village of…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES NEWS: Vicky Angear for the Mercury pleads with readers for news as reporters are heavily restricted during the coronavirus crisis (but there’s news of crime in Axbridge) and an American bird has a good laugh at Cheddar Reservoir
A brief roundup of local news from Harry Mottram on Thursday, April 2, 2020. With the coronavirus crisis gripping the…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES Looking Back at old Axbridge PART 3: When a three course meal was 1/6d in the town hall, Irish workers sang in the Old Angel, there were three pubs in the Square and there was a bicycle shop where the chemist is today
Axbridge has always changed. From when it was just a Saxon bugh based around the stream that flows under the…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES News: local newspaper review – Merv Colenutt on the problems of local football as the season is abandoned, Maxine Irving on life under lockdown, and a picture feature on nursing – a reminder of the NHS heroes battling coronavirus
Local paper review by Harry Mottram, March 26, 2020 With no reporters on the Cheddar Valley Gazette and those on the Mercury heavily restricted…
AGENDA WEST Business News: Bristol Airport, Broadmead, Temple Meads, Axbridge, Yatton, Cribbs Causeway and Bristol Parkway to be connected by new tram system (and they will partly use redundant railway lines as well as the roads)
Campaign groups for better public transport have welcomed the news from the Somerset, Kingswood and Bristol Transport Infrastructure Alliance that…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES Looking Back at old Axbridge PART 2: When Axbridge had a petrol station in the High Street, a slaughterhouse and an undertakers (and the rural district council had offices next to the Roxy)
Megan’s Axbridge Part 2 by Harry Mottram In the first part of this series we walked up the left hand…
AGENDA WEST Business News: Government’s business secretary Alok Sharma announces changes to wrongful trading rules during the coronavirus crisis meaning firms can continue trading although technically insolvent
Coronavirus: company rule changes protect firms trading while technically insolvent As companies lose footfall, orders and customers and see their…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES Looking Back – Megan’s old Axbridge: feedback about the article with stories of priest holes, secret passages and the vital importance of the butcher’s shop
There’s been considerable feedback from my article about Megan Baker’s memories of old Axbridge and the High Street (Part 1)…
AGENDA WEST Comment: you may not agree with this alternative view of the way the coronavirus crisis is being tackled by the Government but Harry Speed believes the cure could be worse than the disease as business collapses
Harry Speed fears the cure is as bad as the disease. They say the first casualty of war is truth, but…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES Looking Back at old Axbridge PART 1: When Axbridge had boutiques, a fish and chip shop, there was a slaughterhouse in the High Street and one of the largest butchers in the county (and a drapers shop so you could make your own clothes)
Megan’s Axbridge Part 1 A walk through part of Axbridge with the memories of shops and businesses of the late…