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library staff to the Tou'n Hall u-ould do little to SAVE OURLIBRARY! mitigate the unforrunate impact on commerce in the immediate area. caused b1' the deparnrre of A PUBLIC MEETING at the Blakehay, chaired by employees to Cler edon. but the loss of staff from John Penrose, Weston's MP and Minister for the Boulevard, u'ould have a further depressing Tourism, considered North Council's effect on trade in that localiq'. not \ et recor.ered plan to close the Library in the Boulevard and from the relocation of the Generai Hospital. transfer the facility to rooms in the Town Hall. The opening of the Boulevard Librarl had been John Crockford-Hawley gave an illustrated associated with the 60th annir ersarl' of the presentation of the history of lending libraries in accession of Queen Victoria: it u'ould be a Weston, which had been characterised by the grotesque irony if it were to be s\\ ept a*'av in tardiness of local authority response to private preparation for the celebration of 60 )'ears on the initiative. The Public Libraries Act of 1850 took throne of Queen Elizabeth II. 43 years to see local implementation. Eventually Frederick Wood of Chew Magna donated his own Councillor Tony Lake, e\ecutive extensive stock of books to the town on condition member for finance. human resources and that a building should be made available to house community services. declared that the move to them. This generous offer, combined with public Castlewood represented a long-term sar in-q out of subscriptions, led to the purchase of the Boulevard which the f9.8m nerr's'ork at the Tosrt Hall u-ould site and the construction of the current building, be funded. designed by Hans Price and Sidney Wild, with spacious, well-lit rooms to house library, art gallery The Libraries Manager \\'as in far our of a move to and museum. the Town Hall u'hich u'ould provide a more modern context for the library and bener conditions When the museum exhibits had been transferred in for the staff. A library there u'ould be on one floor; 1974 to newly acquired premises in Burlington it could be used convenientll'b1' people doing their Street, the space they had occupied was used to town centre shopping and b1'the 900 staffmembers accommodate the reference library and the who would still be working upstairs: most local bus extremely useful local studies room. Although routes passed close to the Toul Hall: it would be signs of imaginative presentation were lacking, a easily accessible to visitors on their rvay from the good deal of money had been spent comparatively railway station to the beach. recently on refurbishing the reference library and installing a lift. It seemed a strange moment in the Councillor Lake pointed out that some local Library's history for it to be condemned as unfit for authorities were abandoning public libraries purpose. altogether. A library in the Town Hall would be safer from subsequent budget austerities than one Howard Smith revealed his disappointment at the housed elsewhere. He pledged that every effort news that North Somerset had decided on the move would be made to find an appropriate community to the Town Hall without public consultation. use for the vacated Boulevard building. Other significant buildings in the town, including some designed by Hans Price, had become Concerns raised from the floor included the redundant and had required alternative uses, but absence of consultation (of anyone, including the this one was still in daily popular use. The Town Council); the taking of the decision in distinctive character of the listed building clearly advance of forthcoming elections; a lack of expressed in its decorative features the purpose for transparency in tendering arrangements; which it had been designed and it contributed an the negative associations in the public mind of the important statement to Weston's sense of itself. traditional functions of a town hall.

The move of many of the council's offices to It was plain that all who spoke, with the exception Castlewood in left the impression that of North Somerset councillors, were in favour of Weston was being downgraded. The transfer of keeping the library in its present building. RECLAIMINGTHE TOWN Tourism John Penrose practically earning a season ticket, and the holiday crowds have kept coming.

WESTON IS THE FINE PLACE IT IS because of And there's plenty of room for them. At last a tourism. Tourism turned our community from a unified vision is starting to appear, a common fishing village into a town, gave us a magnificent identity and purpose in Weston's reborn public set of public buildings, and created that special spaces. After three years we're all now reaping the dynamic of public movement in public spaces benefit of the newly redesigned esplanade. Ignore which is the hallmark of the tourist town. People the various gimcrack bits of 'public art'; this is an spend a lot of time - not working, not eating or enonnous public space to be enjoyed by those of us sleeping at home, but outdoors, in public, having 'busy doing nothing' on a fine afternoon or fun, seeing and being seen. In recent years, as the evening. The same goes for the new Pier Square, a town has turned its back on its tourist heritage, the plaza on a continental scale, just in the right place, general public have increasingly been eased out of crammed full of people enjoying themselves, places where a generation ago they would have without necessarily having to spend any money, been welcomed. , the Tropicana, just by sharing a public open space with each other. Knightstone, parts of the Beach Lawns: all these It doesn't have to get any more complicated than iconic sites have seen the Keep Out signs go up. this, does it?

The one exception was the Grand Pier, the sole reminder that Weston still took tourism seriously. Until the fire. That was the biggest media event in Weston's postwar history, seen on national television news in Australia before most Westonians had heard about it on local radio. A very few were still alive who remembered the earlier pier fire in 1930. Something good came out of that, too. It's not unknown for buildings in Weston to burn to the ground, but it's highly unusual for the owner to wish to rebuild rather than develop. Just like their predecessors in 1930, Kerry and Michelle Michael had decided within hours that a new pier would rise from the ashes. Every aspect of the rebuilding process seems to have been handled well, with the right design selected from competition entries offered up for public consultation, and work beginning as soon as the dust settled.

Those who attended the official re-opening on an auspiciously fine day last November were able to congratulate the Michaels and their team on an impressive success. The enthusiasm of thousands of local residents who piled back on during the f,rrst Find an Edwardian postcard of the same area, with day to reclaim 'their' pier was almost enough to the then newly opened Grand Pier, and compare the have rebuilt the structure on its own. Sipping two. Both bustling, heavily used open spaces, champagne on the first floor balcony of one of doing what an open space is designed to do. You several function rooms, we could see crowds can complain about the layout if you like, complain thronging the new and exciting amusement park, about the presence of people who didn't go to the the elegant tea room, the crowded bar, the best schools, invent safety hazards where none promenade decking ... Since then the pier has exist. Or you can just sit in the sun and be a hosted a number of events, with Minister for Westonian, reclaiming your town. ::::::::::,::.:.):::)).a.:.'::::.:,::l:tlii:,) N) BNIMll,lll,,,M$,,o We ston

Never stumpedfor interesting reJlections, Brian Austin ltas turned up some sporting memories.

SOME THIRTY YEARS AGO I contributed a sarcastic piece to Weston View, complaining that the road names of new housing developments had nothing to do with the history or the locality of Weston.

At the time the Somerset team was enjoying a lot of success and, as one of Somerset's most popular cricketers was an Australian called Bill Alley, I suggested, tongue in cheek, that the cricket terms tdrive'. 'cut' etc. were just the thing, so why not name some after the team.

I should have been more careful over what I wished for. Within 18 months a whole sector of neu,\\-orle was turned into a cricket zone.

For those readers who have not spotted the allusions, here is a list of the road names involved.

From the Somerset teams of the time came:

Botham Close for (there is a Botham Drive in , a happy inspiration!) Denning Court Peter Denning Garner Court Richards Close Roebuck Close Peter Roebuck Rose Gardens (!) Brian Rose Taylor Court Derek Taylor (the keeper: for 'court' read 'caught', perhaps?)

Perhaps they drew the line at Close Close (for ).

The seven current player above were then joined by six old-time heroes: Gill Mews for George Gill 1876-1931 Gimblett Road Harold Gimblett I9T4-197 8 Tremlett Mews Maurice Tremlett 1923-1984 (grandfather of Chris who now plays for ) Tyler Green Edwin Tyler T864-1917 Walford Avenue Mike Walford 1915-2002 Wellard Close Arthur Wellard 1 902- 1 980

At this point they ran out of cricketers and were unable to look them up, so they went for some place names: Fenners University cricket ground; Grace Road Leicestershire CCC HQ and ground, but also a nod to the great W. G .Grace the Gloucestershire and England player; Hambledon Road a village in Hampshire known as 'the birthplace of modern cricket'; Sophia Gardens Cardiff HQ of Glamorgan CCC; Taunton Road Somerset CCC HQ and ground; The Saffrons a ground at Eastbourne which hosted Sussex CCC games until 2000.

As there were two roads to go, they came up with The Fielders and Spinners End. t'm sorry that no one remembered Weston's own W.H.R 'Bill' Andrews, and it is a shame that nobody found a lane for 'Bill Alley'. He later became an umpire, so perhaps it would have needed to be a wide one? these will feature extensively in newly-planned SUSTAINABLE ENERGY buildings and if introduced in an existing house are Meeting the Demand reckoned, through reduced energy costs, to yield a return of II% on investment while saving approximately one tonne of carbon each year. Another highly successful seminar was arranged by TENONS in Marclt, following two which reviewed Campbell Dunford is Chief Executive of the ideas for generating power from the Severn Renewable Energy Foundation, a charity, which Estuary. Four speakers each gave a presentation researches and promotes all aspects of effective and and responded to questions. We offer below a sustainable renewable energy technologies. New flavour of what was said. plant was required to produce electricity. Gas was seen as a safe investment and relatively clean and David Eccles of EDF outlined plans for the cheap. A high proportion of current proposals was Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, a European for wind turbine installations, partially because Pressurised Water Reactor, as pioneered in France. valuable subsidies were available for these, but He stressed that the company would be sure to there was a high cost both for installation and for absorb any lessons from the recent Japanese delivery of power to users. There was a case for experience, though seismic activity was not a reducing the subsidies. factor and the chosen site was well above any area likely to be affected in the future by a rise in sea Reliable sources of renewable energy were level brought about by global warming. required. Few large sites had been identified for hydro-electric schemes in the absence of suitable People living near Hinkley were happy with the large rivers but smaller waterways could be safety culture of the existing power station and considered. Tidal schemes were slow in coming their misgivings about the impact of construction forward. traffic on the roads and lanes would be largely assuaged by the building of a jetty so that most of Power could be generated from biomass, possibly the materials could be brought in by sea. using existing coal-fired stations earmarked for decommissioning. Vegetable matter grown for the Giles Chichester MEP, President of the European purpose should be free of any taint of damage to Energy Forum, revealed that 3lo/o of electricity in the environment. An attractive prospect was power Europe is generated in nuclear reactors, which will generation from waste, which included recovery of remain in essential partnership with oil, gas and methane from landfill sites. This could be done renewable sources. inside a sealed unit: the absence of oxygen would ensure that no harmful dioxins were released into Use of energy was growing more efficient but the atmosphere. demand was still high. Burning of coal and lignite was damaging to the environment. Supplies of oil Nothing had been said on this occasion about and gas were potential victims of political power generation from the Severn Estuary, in view instability. Three years supply of uranium for of the government's decision to abandon plans for nuclear reactors was available and further sources a banage, but there were still ways of exploiting tended to be in politically stable areas such as tidal power in the Weston area without any damage Australia and Canada. to the environment.

Kerry Burns, General Manager of Solarsense UK There was too much focus on central electricity reviewed available technologies for exploiting solar generation: local initiatives and local grids might power. Photo-voltaic produces electricity; solar- be a better way to proceed. The real scope for thermal provides heating and hot water. Both of renewable energy was at the domestic level. We continue to pursue the theme of quarries, reproducing below, by kind permission of Dr Alan Godsell, the sequel to the article in our last edition featuring his work on local quarrying. Having dealt with Uphill and the west end of Worlebury Hill, we now move eastwards.

Butt's operation got him into trouble with the local QUARRYINGIN THE authorities. ln 1917, he was the subject of an 'Extraordinary Traffic Action'. It was alleged that WESTONAREA his steam wagon and trailer, introduced after most of his horses had been commandeered for the First ANOTHER MAJOR QUARRY in the Weston area World War, were damaging the local roads. Butt was Butt's Quarry. It derives its name from Henry appealed to the House of Lords but lost his case. Butt, a prominent local entrepreneur and Nevertheless, mechanisation at the quarry philanthropist, who took it over in the mid-1880s, continued. Between the wars, haulage of stone by though its origins date from the 1850s. By the hand-pushed or horse-drawn drams was replaced 1930s, the face extended eastwards along the by an endless steel cable system pulling loaded contour of the hill for nearly half a mile, stopping drams up an incline to the lime kilns and crusher short of two other quarries beside Milton Hill by the weight of the empty drams returning. In the Road. Quarrying ended in 1910 when all three final years of the quarry's life, a cable-operated sites were developed for housing. excavator at the rock pile loaded tipper lorries which were driven to the primary crusher.

There were two other quarries immediately adjoining Butt's: Jones's Quarry and Milton Town Quarry. The latter is to be distinguished from Weston Town Quarry, both being called 'Town' because they were owned by the Town Council. Jones's Quarry is noteworthy for the discovery there in l9l4 of a swallet hole and cavern containing stalactities and prehistoric animal bones including rhinoceros teeth. At the time the caverns were described as 'dainty little grottos and chambers fantastically carved by water'. There was also a small quarry on Hazeldene Road known as the 'ballast quarry' where it is believed the ballast used on the local railway was dug.

One quarry in the Milton area, Sprake's Quarry, is interest because a Butt's Quany, Milton Hill of it was run as a sideline by local pub landlord. George Sprake was the landlord of the Windor Castle for 13 years. The Lime was produced at Butt's Quarry until the pub was originally called the Masons' Arms 1960s. The kilns were built before World War because it drew trade from the quarrymen. In One to a then sophisticated German design. They 1901, Sprake took a seven-year lease, from the had doors, chimneys and dampers, enabling the trustees of the Smyth-Pigott estate, of Milton draught to be controlled and thereby reducing coal Quarry, which came to bear his name. When consumption and the amount of dust-lime Sprake's lease expired, the quarry was taken over produced. Each kiln was 60 feet (18m) deep and by Henry Butt and added to his business interests. produced 15 tonnes of lime a day. Before World Another local quarry which played a significant War Two, Butt's Quarry was the largest producer part in Weston's history was Huish's Quarry. of white lime in the West of England. Tarmac and Huish's was established in 1851 but had existed mortar were also produced. However, the scale of long before that as a parish quarry. It was run by three brothers for many years and became a limited The Inspector of Mines and Quarries placed company in 1929 and was the first local quarry to restrictions on the amount of explosive used and bring in a mechanical excavator. This machine the number of shot holes fired at once, to prevent was used in the construction of Weston's open air vibrations from blasting affecting nearby houses. swimming pool (later the Tropicana), opened in After blasting, the fractured rock was ripped and t937. pushed over the edge of the rise by a bulldozer to form a rock pile at its base, which was conveyed to the crusher by diesel-powered loading shovel. 500 tonnes of stone per day was crushed in 1975. Where the stone was contaminated with soil, it was diverted and sold as scalping. Mortar was also manufactured at Worle until 1965 in a mortar mill. White mortar was made by grinding together putty lime and sand, while black mortar was made by the addition of coke ash from the gas works.

Two small quarries of particular interest are those of Hutton, namely Spar Quarry at Church Lane and Canada Combe Quarry. At Spar Quarry, the local limestone had recrystallised into columnar milky calcite, giving the quarry its name. This was used Limeworks at Butt's Quarry to decorate tarmac surfaces, as dry gravel, decorative rockery stone and for wall copings. However, the discovery which gives these quarries At the east end of Worlebury Hill, there was also their interest was different and unexpected. A significant quarrying activity. Worle Quarry nugget of gold was found in one of the quarries! originated in 1802 as a parish quarry and continued Between 1938 and 1948, a gold nugget embedded to be worked until c1990. From 1965 to 1990 the in a white rock 3/z-4 inches long and l/z-2 inches quarry was known for the production of steam- broad was displayed at Weston Museum and cured concrete blocks for building. There were described as having been found at Hutton. initially made from aggregate quarried on the spot, Unfortunately, the specimen on display from 1966 but in its last years stone from other quarries was onwards is a tiny fragment of gold in a piece of used. Worle used the most up-to-date quarrying white quartz barely % inch in size, a poor technique of any of the Weston quarries. From comparison with the original. Furthermore, 1976 a rise was quarried from the top downwards mineralogists consider that the specimen could not by stripping off 10 foot (3.4m) layers. The shot have come from the Mendip area naturally. holes were drilled in a 4 foot grid pattern using a 'wagon-mounted' compressed air drill with tungsten carbide drilling rods. The 'wagon' was an We hope that this ex-War Department tracked Bren gun carrier. material has shown the scale and interest of the quarrying industry of Weston and given some indication of its inJluence on the growth of our town.

We should be happy to continue to receive and make available in Weston View information about limestone quarrying in general, in the Weston area, and particularly at South Road. We are always on the lookout for details of the lives of the men who worked the limestone and carted it, as well as the techniques they employed in winning the stone and in the various stone-related processes which came to be housed at South Road and in other local quarries.

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The Secretary reviewed plans for INSIDE ANI) the Quarry, in particular as a site where the Society's Green Agenda OUTSIDE can be set out for all to see and sustainability practised as well as THE LIGHTING of the Meeting preached, there being little sign of Room has been transformed, with " this even in new developments in spotlights installed to enhance the Weston. appearance of temporary afi exhibitions as well as shop stock. Networking will be a feature of future planning, so that as many Outside, a new upper section has people as possible come to use the been fashioned by Dave Marshall Quarry and to appreciate its for the existing base of a lamp potential. standard which once served the working quarry, just beyond the weighbridge hut. The appearance of the new lamp is traditional but illumination is provided by batteries Miab&mp,, i,,mi,aose who pay their annual should recharged by a small solar panel in the sloping top. subseriptionr:'bi,',',stardin$ order in May tdCnrnp ri..i,..,our,'rr;ir..redition. Life Members should,: :already have:ieceived theirs and anyone else'who has not received acatdmight like to look out the renewal reminder that came with the /asr ANNUALGENERAL edition. MEETING Qu-i,rl,,i.,c6ver, illustration shows the newly AT THE AGM in April the serving officers were refurbished Grand Pier at night, in an atrnospheric re-elected for a further term. The Annual Report (printed on the facing page) was adopted, as were the Annual Accounts.

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At the Annual General Meeting shelter behind it; this will be used abandoned, but not in favour of in April 2010 Civic Society offi- to house the ride-on mower something which might be in cers were elected as follows: which doubles as a tractor to pull keeping with the prevailing Chairman: Martin Taylor; a small trailer. character of that part of the town. Secretary: Chris Barker; Treasurer: Bob Smart. An original lamp standard behind The threat of a Severn Barrage the Weighbridge Hut has been was reduced when the David Lewis manages the Old reconstructed. A turntable government withdrew potential Town Quarry, the Society's associated with the Quarry's public funding. Most people are headquarters, and runs the caf6 narrow-gauge railway is on presumably in favour of there. Part of the shop area has display nearby, next to a wagon exploiting renewable energy been let for the sale of gifts and that used to run on it. sources but not at the cost of small furniture with a Victorian fouling up the environment and theme. Spotlights have been Our magazine Weston View has destroying wildlife habitats. installed, improving the kept conservation issues before appearance ofthe display area. Society members and local The Society was associated with councillors and officers. the campaigns to retain Weston's Much useful practical work has Museum and the town's Central been done by Dave Marshall, A frenzy of 'public art' met with Library, backing both financially. assisted by volunteers. the Society's disapproval, not The current crisis in public least the nonsensical display funding has led North Somerset To the right of the entrance drive, which the organisers wanted to Council to propose cost-cutting a new sign with a light above it install in the Quarry. Thwarted in exercises at both locations. The advertises the Town Quarry. A this, they set it up outside instead museum exhibits were to go to pump, of traditional appearance where it does nothing to enhance the Winter Gardens and the books and formerly part of the Heritage the sweep of the stone wall and were destined for the Town Hall. Centre display, has been little to enlighten the passer-by. The hallmark of both campaigns re-erected nearby. Apart from was local resistance to the looking good, it works and can be Even the sea front enhancement, potential loss of a much-valued used to remove water which with its splendid paving and resource and the wastage of a fine seeps into the tank below. splash wall, has been Hans Price building. Perhaps, as compromised by bits and pieces the local council seems Further work was carried out to of 'public art' and some rather increasingly dominated by the clear invasive vegetation from random seating. perceived needs of the eastern both side of the boundary wall part of its territory, the people of along South Road and from the The Grand Pier is once again Weston will have to imitate their two sets of steps leading up to the grand, but Birnbeck Pier hangs on Victorian forbears and combine small building which once served by a thread, waiting for the own- to provide and maintain even the as a toilet but has now been ers to come round to seeing it as a basic cultural facilities which we repaired and fitted up as a work- pinnacle of our Victorian had supposed would be looked shop. heritage, requiring vision and after on our behalf. At least the hard work - not least in drawing Civic Society in its practical The mason's hut at the bottom of up grant applications. Plans for a projects over the years has been the steps has been clad and work tower to replace the Royal Pier able to set an example of self- is in progress on the lean-to Hotel nearby were rightly help. We include in our Diary details of our own prograrnme and those of the other local groups who supply us with details. In order to simpliff the diary pages we sulnmarise below the affangements which each organisation makes for its regular meetings.

Weston-super-Mare WESTON CIVIC SOCIETY Archaeological & Natural History Society

CNIC SOCIETY events are held, unless otherwise The Weston ARCH,IEOLOGICAL & NATURAL stated, in the Meeting Room at the Old Town Quarry, HISTORY SOCIETY holds meetings at Victoria South Road, where there is ample parking space. Methodist Church Hall, Station Road at 7.00 p.m. Lectures begin at 7.30 p.m. and refreshments are served. Visitors are welcome at all meetings and they pay a fee of f2.00. THE NATIONAL TRUST

The Weston-super-Mare & District ^3to6meir.- TENONS, the Environmental National Trust Association ^/ffino Network ofNorth Somerset, generally F'reil ! arrange open meetings at The The NATIONAL TRUST ASSOCIATION holds i\l{UHyi nluk.f,uy, wadham Sffeet"at 7.30 p.m. monthly Thursday meetings at2.00 for 2.15 p.m and *".ffi*c visitors pay f2.oo. monthly Friday meetings at 7.00 for 7,30 p.m. at Corpus Christi Hall, Ellenborough Park South. Visitors: f1.50. w E s-ffilEro*

6S$5[A?.4.- ThC WESTON'SUPER-MARE The local group of the UNMRSITY OF THE a*lY}I? FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY meets THIRD AGE organises lectures on the second affi{Xr{s at 7.30 p.m. on the last Tuesday of each Friday afternoon of each month at St Paul's Church ?AHH**.S month (except August & December) at St Hall, Walliscote Road. Lectures begin at 2.15 p.m. Paul's Church Hall, Walliscote Road. The charge for each lecture is f 1.00, which includes Visitors: f 1.00. refreshments, and guests are most welcome.

Tuesday, May 10th, 7.00 for 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, May 18th, 7.30 p.m. ARCH,€OLOGICAL & NATURAL HISTORY TENONS SOCIETY Dan Green of Wessex Water AGM followed by REFRESHMENTS then at 7.45 p.m. AFTER WATER Chris Richards * MINING TN WESTON * Tuesday, May 31st, 7.30 p.m. FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Friday, May 131h,2.15 p.m. at the United Reformed Church Hall, Professor Graham Davis Waterloo Street THE LANGTONS U3A Of NEWTON PARK AGM followedby Newton Park is the home of Brig Rooke Bath Spa University JACK OF ALL TRADES AND MASTBR OF NONE

10 Friday, June 10th, 2.15 p.m. Wednesday,.l-1! 7. 3 0 p.m. _2_9th, U3A TENONS Jonathan Weeks ANOTHER EARTH SCTENCE BLAST FROM THE PAST FROM GEOLOGY TO RESOURCE THE HORNS AND STRINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES

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Wednesday, June 15th, 7.30 p.m. Tuesday, July 26th,7.30 p.m. TENONS FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE Col. Iain Swinnerton a well known and respected military historian and genealogist {< TRACING YOUR ANCESTORS USING Tuesday, June 28th, 7.30 p.m. MODERN SOURCES FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY * MEMBERS'EVENING Sharing experiences and breaking dou'n rvalls Wednesday, August 17th,7.30 p.m. TENONS

GM v ORGANIC THE EXCITEMENT THE BIG FOOD DEBATE OFDISCOVERY * THE MANY ASPECTS OF,ARCH,If,OLOGY Thursday, September 1st, 2.00 for 2.15 p.m. Saturday, JuIy 16th NATIONAL TRUST ASSOCIATION 9.45 t2.45 - Mrs Lesley Ross at the Blakehay, Wadham Street FREE ENTRANCE CHEW VALLEY BEFORE THE LAKE * Vince Russett North Somerset Archeologist ARCH,'EOLOGY FOR THE PEOPLE Friday, September 16th, 7.000 for 7.30 p.m. NATIONAL TRUST ASSOCIATION Bob Jones Bristol City Archaeologist Mr Michael Claydon URBAN ARCH,IBOLOGY _ NBWARKPARK-AHISTORY AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES * Susan Shaw STUDYING SOMBRSET HOUSES : Wednesday, SjplgT!._. 2 1 st, 7.30 p.m. Experience with the Somerset Vernacular Buildings TENONS Research Group

Steve Tofts WASTE MANAGEMENT WHERE DOES IT ALL END UP? THE LUMPS AIID BUMPS OF

COWLE AZE, CHARTERHOUSE : {< RBCENT DTSCOVERTES Tuesday, September 27th,7.30 p.m. Peter Insole FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Archreological Offi cer, Bristol KNOW YOUR PLACE Dr Janet Few

Organised by WESTON-SUPER-MARE ARCI{AOLOGICAL FROM DARLINGTON TO & NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY WELLTNGTON as part of the CBA Festival of Architecture The sad tale of Isabella Fry, a distant relative of the chocolate-making, prison-reforming Quaker Fry family

11 !t-P€i. ^<. 'f,ffi-." -z\ +- Visit the TOWN QUARRY in touth Roqd

The Quorry is open 10.30 o.m - 4.30 p.m. Wednesdoy to Soturdoy 12.OO noon - 4.30 p.m. Sundoy (Annuol closure during the first 2 weeks of Morch & September ond the period 5etween Christmos ond the New Yeor) Come ond view the noture Weston Civic Society is a registered charity. ?ese?ve ond the exhibition on The Society campaigrrs for a good quality The Story of the Stone Town. environment based on an appreciation of the town's origrn as a Victorian seaside Visit the shop ond cof d,. resort.

TNNITELESS ROSE CORNER at the'lfown Quarny for gifts to suit a and romantic small interior furniture setting

rustic and shabby chic with a Victorian theme jewellery - candles - wicker baskets