Sunday 18th December is the evening when all the churches are likely to hold their Carol Services. Street Parish Church's Carols begin at 6 p.m. This year the choir carols have been chosen for their local connections:   more »

I had a phone call this morning from a gentleman who introduced himself as Stanley Gunby. He told me his age was 95, and that his family had at one time run the Street Inn. He wished to know if there was a published history of the inn.   more »

I wondered why the face of our speaker tonight was so familiar. Then someone told me. I have often seen and talked to William Berry in Living Homes.   more »

Yes I know that this is not particularly about Street, but it's good to hear a black Archbishop support the celebration of St George's Day, as we did in the Parish Church this year with a concert of English music.   more »

I received this query today. Can anyone help?

On 29 January 1721 a Sylvester Richmond made a presentation to the ...   more »

A Nottinghamshire blogger named Janet Roberts drew my attention to an article she posted today on http://nottinghamshirenotes.blogspot.com/

It starts with a bronze statuette in London and takes in the First World War exploits of Dr Hilda Clark.   more »

I think I mentioned a while ago that the Baptists applied to knock down their church and build a modern one, along with some houses. In the most recent Central Somerset Gazette I read this:   more »

I heard an amazing tale this afternoon, while talking to a teacher at Elmhurst.
Apparently her husband's ancestor fought   more »

I posted a photo some time ago showing yellow marks on the road opposite the Mission Church, where Vestry Road curves round just before it becomes Merriman Road. Today a couple of men were working behind temporary barriers there.   more »

I've been watching the building works in Somerton Road for the past weeks. On the Glastonbury side one house is ...   more »

It's been playing wonderful music for four years, apparently, and this is the first time I've heard them. What kept me so long?   more »

The annual Fun Day is to be on June 10th 2006.   more »

Let's put it on record: December 1st is the Big Sing in Street.   more »

The list of organisations invited to a recent meeting shows how much activity there is in Street.   more »

This Association featured in two news items that I read one after the other in this week's Gazette, so I Googled them and found their website: http://www.mendip.org.uk/templates/t01.asp?site=109   more »

I posted a photo of the Pound Shop's kerbside display of goods and asked why they were there. Now the Gazette has the news that I wasn't the only one to object:   more »

Arthur Edwards' pub in Coxley must have been a jolly place, if he was anywhere like as amusing a landlord as he is a speaker.   more »

Just got back from the Trafalgar Day celebrations in the Parish Church.   more »

We had a good meeting today in the new council room in the Self-Help Centre in Crispin Hall. The room was fairly crowded with representatives of churches, voluntary groups, local government representatives and others.   more »

This week's Central Somerset Gazette has news of a report on modern farming as destructive of ancient tracks on the Somerset Levels. Apparently ploughing and draining the land has the effect of drying out the waterlogged prehistoric timbers. It is their waterlogged state that has preserved them for so many centuries.   more »

Nina Fry as Chairman of Street Parish Council is gathering a representative from each organisation in Street for an hour on Tuesday 18th October to co-ordinate forthcoming events and activities.

Brilliant idea. I just hope that someone from each organisation bothers to turn up.   more »

I was enjoying a glass of wine after the Millfield concert this evening (see my review here) when I overheard   more »

It could have been so boring.

It was a changed committee. We have lost our chairman, Ann Webb, and changed ...   more »

I've just returned from a week in the south of France. Among the joys of the holiday were the food ...   more »

Ann Webb is Street born and bred. She went to the local schools, including Elmhurst when it was the Grammar School, before going away to university.   more »

Following my rant on unlimited pub opening hours, I offer evidence that I am not the only one to think it's a bad idea:   more »

The Gazette prints Club News items in smaller print than the rest of the newspaper.   more »

The Gazette, having previously noted the strange Case of the Closed Pub, have this week revealed the cause. The news story is here.   more »

There is a web page devoted to one exhibit in Clarks Shoe Museum - the Eureka machine.   more »

What can we do to restore Merriman Park to something like its former glory, and to restore some self-respect to the people of Street?   more »

The Street Self-Help Centre has a wide range of courses this autumn. You can see the whole list on their site here.   more »

There's a report on the hot topic of drinking and antisocial behaviour here in this week's Gazette. The good news is that few incidents were reported to the police. The bad news is   more »

I see in the Central Somerset Gazette that our Parish Council is leasing space in Crispin Hall, room 20 in the Self-Help Centre, as an office and meeting room.   more »

Come to hear Ashley on Friday 9th September in Street Parish Church, and sing Mikado in Glastonbury the next evening.   more »

Do you know the web site called Bygone Years in Street? It has photos of old Street, a certain amount of information, and occasional queries. This is one that came yesterday:   more »

As an experiment I am putting a bit of video on the blog. Ken Dunthorn, whose allotment in Overleigh is ...   more »

You should be able to find 65 photos of the Street Society trip to Poundbury and Kingston Maurward, organised by Nina Fry in July, at   more »

So Hermes, who run Clarks Village, have paid out £5,800,000 for the Crispin Centre so that no one else will lure visitors away from Clarks Village and reap the rewards.   more »

The Gazette reported yesterday on the latest plans for the big housing development on the Houndwood site.   more »

Interesting where research on the internet can lead you. I was searching for more information on Laurence Housman to correct the web site http://www.laurencehousman.tk.   more »