Round About by John Bailey

Welcome to Round About, this section is dedicated to local history and was written by former News Editor John Bailey. These articles have appeared in the Weston & Somerset Mercury over many years and have become very popular with our readers. We hope you will enjoy them just as much. Copyright: John Bailey.
AUTUMN, with its rich colouring, the superb tapestry that nature weaves before the leaves fall, has always charmed me, but as a child the autumn glow that drew me... » MORE
Let's slip back to the 1850s and take a walk around Weston, which then had a population of under 5,000, was conscious that it had a future as a seaside resort, and was... » MORE
Seed-time and harvest. So it has been down the centuries, though empires rise and fall, nations fight with nations, man's inhumanity to man grows more diabolical, and while... » MORE