Axbridge News: Cheddar Arts Festival set for the May Bank Holiday weekend of the 4th-6th
Early May Bank Holiday Weekend Cheddar Arts Walking Trail Once again Cheddar Artists are staging a festival over the May…
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…
Cheddar Reservoir: recent photographs of the magical scene at dawn in July as the waters greet the new day under the shadow of the Mendip Hills
Summer dawns on Somerset’s large strawberry shaped reservoir between Axbridge and Cheddar are often glorious affairs. Golden sunrises at around…
AXBRIDGE NEWS: the website for the 2020 Axbridge Pageant is now live
In 1963 the former Cheddar Valley Railway often called The Strawberry Line was closed after almost a century of use.…
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 four years ago about the winter of 1962/63 triggered lots of memories…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – FEATURE: when you could earn six shillings a week on the railway, blackberries were loaded by the barrel in Cheddar and everyone looked slim, fit and healthy (but there were chocolate machines at Cheddar Railway Station)
This article appeared in the Strawberry Line Times Magazine in 2013 following a meeting with Shirley Hudd of Cheddar who…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – FEATURE: the scandal of why the Strawberry Line Railway was closed back in the 1960s (and the extraordinary last ever passenger service along the line)
It’s more than 50 years ago since the Strawberry Line was closed by the infamous Beeching axe writes Harry Mottram.…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – NEWS: Friends of Cheddar Library demonstrate over threat of the library’s closure by Somerset County Council
A ‘consultation’ over the planned change to Cheddar Library by Somerset County Council takes place this winter as the county…
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – NEWS: Christmas comes to Axbridge with Santa in the Square
On Saturday, December 16th, Axbridge Square in the Strawberry Line District is closed to traffic from 5pm as Christmas celebrations…
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