Coleford Quoits team.

 Choggy Brimble is a great name. From The Mendips in old photographs.

Chris Howell Somerset author

 We have a lot of books by him. He did a lot of books on Somerset history. A lot of them had him interviewing elderly residents and placing their comments next to old photos. He was a local schoolteacher. His book No Thankful Village is probably his most famous book getting national interest. (A thankful village is one who lost no casualties in the Great War). He came to our house once to deliver a book and we had a nice chat. This is just a few of his books. 

Susan in 2010

 Stoney Littleton Long Barrow. Stoney Littleton Long Barrow - Wikipedia

West Harptree, sometime in the mid to late 1970s. (Photo credit: Nigel Eggleton)

 West Harptree - Wikipedia

The Old Down Inn

 The Old Down Inn Public house & Bed and Breakfast Emborough

Deer Leap by Bob Bruton Photography

 This is a spot on the Mendips overlooking Somerset. Near Priddy. Called deer leap as there was a ditch there to prevent deer leaving the Royal Forest. There are two standing stones nearby.

Priddy Folk Festival

 Home - Priddy Folk Festival

Tucker's Grave Inn Balloon by Chris Doel

 

Visit to Tucker's Grave Inn Somerset

 Flanked by two bassists in matching jumpers which was a coincidence. Great pub. 

Paulton Cricket Club

 My Dad did his apprenticeship at Purnells. Cycling from Radstock. 

Theobald Arms Nunney

 Loved the painting. Played there as a teen. Clientele were mainly Romani who loved Elvis so we played loads of his stuff and they danced up a storm. Had ferrets out the back, probably the first time I encountered one. 

Maypole dancing at Wookey 1910

 Wookey - Wikipedia

Foxcote Somerset (pronounced Fosscutt)

 Some stuff on the village. 

Foxcote Pit

Church of St James The Less, Foxcote - Wikipedia

Fair Maids of Foscott. In 1668 Samuel Pepys visited Norton St Philip

''At Philips-Norton I walked to [the Church](https://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/14144/), and there saw a very ancient tomb of some Knight Templar, I think; and here saw the tombstone whereon there were only two heads cut, which, the story goes, and credibly, were two sisters, called the Fair Maids of Foscott, that had two bodies upward and one belly, and there lie buried. ''

Foxcote Carting Boys 1904 protesting the Guss and Crook

Somerset Village Book

Today's purchase. 
 

Dunkerton Hill

 From the Somerset Coalfield wiki.

Wagonloads of coal being hauled up Dunkerton Hill in the 1850s. Fanny Mayne, writing in The True Briton, complained of this unpleasant traffic,^[22] "It is a very long hill, nearly two miles long, and up it are dragged nearly all the carts, waggons, and "noddies", loaded with coal, which supply Bath and its environs with that very necessary comfort, or comfortable necessary. A sad sight is Dunkerton Hill!"

Apple Tree Inn Shoscombe

 The Apple Tree at Shoscombe.. I noticed on the Radstock community page they are doing a community project to own this lovely hostelry.

'If you would like to follow our journey please give our Instagram page @shoscombe_cbs a follow.'

photo by Susan

Priddy Fire

Huge grass fire in Somerset village devastates woodland

 A huge grass fire devastated over 400m of woodland in a Somerset village on Friday night.

Devon and Somerset Police were called to Stock Hill Woods in Priddy at 5.30pm where three to four-hundred metres of grassland was set ablaze.

Crews from Castle Cary Fire Station attended the incident using beaters and water jets from a local source to put out the fire.

2000: Rode Bird Gardens home video VHS

 We were talking about Rode Bird Gardens near Frome and I thought I would look on Youtube to see if there was anything and found this. Our African clawed frog ended up in the reptile house there. Kids loved going there.

Timsbury book

 Picked up a couple of nice books on Timsbury. 

Mitchards at Nunney Castle mid 90s

 My Dad on this. Taken by my Mum.