Author’s latest book chronicles Frome’s Save Trinity Campaign 50 years on
Local author Mick Davis has released a new book marking 50 years since the Save Trinity Campaign, which helped preserve Frome’s historic 17th-century Trinity area from demolition.
The 17th-century Trinity area of Frome is a unique national heritage site. The surviving streets represent a largely intact area of very early speculative housing – certainly the most extensive in Britain. It was developed on greenfield land to meet the demand for new housing as workers migrated into Frome to serve its burgeoning cloth industry.
Mick said, “This historic urban extension, known as New Town, was fully built 300 years ago. In Georgian times it was a thriving community in its own right, housing most of the town’s working population of artisans and tradespeople in its sturdy terraces of local limestone. In 1838, Holy Trinity Church was built by public subscription, creating a new identity at the height of the Victorian era and lending the neighbourhood the name it still holds today.
