Artikelname: Around Frome
Artikelbeschreibung: This fascinating collection of over 200 old photographs depicts scenes, people and events from everyday life in Frome and its surrounding villages.The town derives its name frOm the Welsh word ffraw,meaning running water, referring' to the river on. which it stands. Essentially an industrial town, Frome was a centre of the woollen industry from the fourteenth century. Amongst this interesting sequence of photographs are images of the areas mills- including Wallbridge, Spring Gardens and Rifford. Some of Frome's other important industries feature including the workshop of John Webb Singer, the brass founder and Samuel Rawlings & Sons, card manufacturers.The Lamb and The United were the two major breweries based in Frome and are both represented in the book.Many memorable individuals are also captured in photographs, including W.EH. Randolph, the vicar of Frome , Revd R.W. Church, Dean of St Paul's, and Mrs Jane Sinkins who ran a successful drapers shop.This book will appeal to an who know Frome and the surrounding area and would enjoy a nostalgic look at how things used to be.

Artikelname: Around Taunton
Artikelbeschreibung: Since the development of photography in the middle of the nineteenth century, the picture of our pasts provided by the written chronicle, the museum artefact or the failing memory has been augmented by the most vivid and immediate relic of fotmer times-the photograph. Authenticating even as it describes, the photograph is of its time in a way that other tepresentations of the past are not.This photographic portrait of a petiod at once familiar and remote illustrates the enormous changes that overtook rural communities in Somerset between the turn of the century and the Second World War. It spans a period during which the traditional sense of community dwindled as the local spirit of self sufficiency was supplanted by modern improvements in transport, and recalls a time when, for all the privations and hard work, a greater sense of contentment seemed to prevail. Comprising the work of both professionals and gifted amateurs, this fascinating selection makes available in collected form many rare photographs of villages-along the River Tone, on the Moors and beneath the Quantock and Blackdown Hills. It offers a delightful trip down memory lane for those old enough to remember; for others, it will be a voyage of discovery.

Artikelname: Chedder
Artikelbeschreibung: Whether you live in Cheddar, or are one of its many visitors, you will be delighted with this collection of images, views of the people and places that form the rich heritagebf the village.Cheddar has changed much over the last hundred years and more is continually been discovered about its earlier history; archaeological excavations which found a Saxon palace in the grounds of the Kings of Wessex Community School is but one example.

Artikelname: Old Portishead
Artikelbeschreibung: For decades 'Posset' was the favourite holiday destination with the citizens of Bristol and this volume of 53 period photographs recalls the heyday of this small resort. Includes rare pictures of the Nautical School, the Docks, the Rocks, Main Street, the Esplanade, and the Golf Course.