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Elegant Bristol… and its other side

Walking from Temple Meads, that magnificent palace of a railway station built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel I saw this beautiful building. Isn’t it graceful, isn’t it well proportioned? I have no idea what it was in a former life but I guess the large gated entrance on the right was the way horse-drawn vehicles entered, probably into […]

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Dolphin Square…

This is yet another blight on the face of what could be a really lovely seaside town. This demolition site has been like this for over eighteen months…. apparently a fabulous new complex with ‘retail opportunities’, ‘leisure facilities’ and restaurants and bars was supposed to have been completed at the end of 2014… wait a […]

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Bird bath

I rounded a corner in the little village of Combwich and I could hear a peculiar sound; it was a sort of flapping, rattling, squawking sound. I was near an estuary – beside me were the village houses,then there was a raised bank and beyond it was the River Parrett flowing into the sea. I […]

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Change of name, change of luck?

This splendid building in Burnham on Sea is, as you may see, now an estate agent’s. On this site was a public house called the Masons Arms. A Quaker gentleman, Mr J. B. Braithwaite, was a teetotaler and extremely concerned about the evils of drink. It is understandable really; for the working man in those days, earning a […]

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Reeds Arms

This rather elegant building on the seafront of Burnham on Sea is the Reeds Arms, named after George Reeds who was an important individual in the history of the town. The hotel, as it was, was built in the 1850’s, and was actually originally called The Reeds Arms; it then became the Queen’s Hotel, before […]

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