 artists impression, the Millau bridge, southern france |
When you're next sat on Bath Road, trying to get through Radstocks daily traffic jam from hell, consider how some people solve their problems. |
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artists impression, the Millau bridge, southern france |
When you're next sat on Bath Road, trying to get through Radstocks daily traffic jam from hell, consider how some people solve their problems. |
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| . . . Radstock in history Radstock has a history that goes back to before Roman times when it was an Iron Age settlement sitting in a valley at the confluence of three streams. When the Romans came, Radstock became a significant place on the Fosseway, the great Roman military road to Bath. But Radstock's importance was not to become apparent until the Industrial Revolution when the new industries demanded coal and coke and these materials had to be transported from source to destination; and Radstock's importance? It was sitting right over the Somerset coalfield. The Great Western Railway and the Somerset and Dorset Railway both established stations and marshalling yards at Radstock and a wagon works located itself right beside Radstock Pit, on the way to Writhlington. Coking ovens were established in Coombend, which provided the town with gas and the steel works in the Midlands with coke. The town flourished and its success is seen in the buildings: The Radstock Hotel, The Bell Hotel, the Market Hall (now a museum), Victoria Hall and the Post Office building and, for those who keep their eyes open, there are many more examples of architecture influenced by the developing wealth of Radstock's businesses. A visit to the Museum in the old Market Hall will add so much more about Radstock's past that it should be on the 'unmissable' list of any visitor. Around and about Radstock you will find a feast of fascinating trivia. Little Jack Horner of nursery rhyme fame - you know the one, 'he stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum' - lived at Mells Manor a short drive from Radstock. A visit to the Talbot Hotel there will tell you more. Remember Jack & Jill who fell down the hill? Well they lived in Kilmersdon, a village that is on the route to Mells and the well that they visited is still there for you to see, at the top of the hill, by the school. When bubonic plague, which was known as The Black Death, struck in the 14th Century it is thought that over a third of the population of England was killed by the disease. People at the time knew very little, if anything, about controlling the disease, but at Holcombe village, to the south of Radstock, the remaining villagers abandoned their homes in the valley and re-established the village at the top of the hill in the hope that this would stop the pestilence. |
 St. Nicholas Church Radstock © P. Dindorp |
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 The Cenotaph Radstock Miners Memorial Park |
LOCAL TAE KWON DO CLUBS ARE SUCCESSFUL YET AGAIN!
On Sunday January 21st students from Norton-Radstock and Peasedown St John Tae Kwon-Do clubs took their coloured belt grading at the Tae Kwon-Do Association of Great Britons (TAGB) headquarters in Bristol. Students as young as age 6 graded in front of the Senior South-West Examiner Master M. Dew 7th Dan. All students from both clubs were successful in being raised to their next grade, and this included 8 students who could be Black belts within a year. Two students received coveted “A” pass grading awards; these were Shannon Teare and Ricmarc Dela Isla from Norton-Radstock, who both performed to an exceptionally high standard of Tae Kwon-Do. Other students who performed particularly well and received high passes were, Claire House-Norman, Callum Mellis, Harry and Sophie Blacker, Tammy Warner and Ricky Dela Isla. If you would like to join our winning team contact us by phone, email or the web site. |
 - the Miners Memorial Gardens, June 2005 Now starting to look the part, but - please mister, - can we have our wheel back? |
It's back!
Somervale Road - 09/10/2005 ???
Help us get our railway back, sign the petition today
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