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View Article  Street in the Gazette, 26th January
Quite a crop of Street stories in the on-line version of the Central Somerset Gazette this week.   more »
View Article  Retirement homes, a growing industry
Two bits of paper remind me of the march of retirement-flat building in Street. The first is the report of the inspector on Holmcroft, the handsome 19th century house in Somerton Road.   more »
View Article  95-year-old's fascinating memories
I had a rewarding day with Stan Gunby in Warminster, recording his memories of Street at the time of the First World War.   more »
View Article  Street in the Gazette, 20 Jan 2006
Six Street items in this week's Central Somerset Gazette.   more »
View Article  Street in the Gazette 12 Jan 2006
Several news items in the Gazette come from Street this week:   more »
View Article  Street in the Gazette - Strode pool
Last Thursday's Gazette has news of the Strode swimming pool reopening. It also   more »
View Article  The Basis hits the doormats of Street
A lively little free magazine came through my letterbox a couple of days ago, the front cover decorated with an attractive swirling bit of abstract art.   more »
View Article  Starting the New Year - in church
Today, New Year's Day, saw three services in rapid succession in Street Parish Church.

At 8 a.m. there was a ...   more »
View Article  What the Gazette has to say about Street
This week's Central Somerset Gazette on-line version has one item about Street.   more »
View Article  First snow
A sprinkling of snow drifted down this afternoon, making me glad I'd got back safely from   more »
View Article  'LIFE' is up-to-the-minute
LIFE thudded onto my doormat yesterday.

If you're puzzled and haven't come across 'LIFE', let me explain. It's the parish ...   more »
View Article  Street - two minutes of fame
I had a phone call out of the blue just before Christmas, from someone who announced herself as Sarah Haynes ...   more »
View Article  The Gazette quotes a Street Society corporate member
David Price of Cosy Feet. His opinion of the Regional Development Agency is not high:   more »
View Article  Alternatives for the Sunday before Christmas
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 »
View Article  "The most happy years of my life were in Street"
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 »
View Article  Twinning - what's that?
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 »
View Article  Multiculturalism has betrayed the English, Archbishop says
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 »
View Article  A query about Walton history.
I received this query today. Can anyone help?

On 29 January 1721 a Sylvester Richmond made a presentation to the ...   more »
View Article  Hilda Clark remembered
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 »
View Article  Baptists get the go-ahead
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 »
View Article  Footnote to the Trafalgar celebrations
I heard an amazing tale this afternoon, while talking to a teacher at Elmhurst.
Apparently her husband's ancestor fought   more »
View Article  Action on that wide, wide road crossing
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 »
View Article  Somerton Road building sites
I've been watching the building works in Somerton Road for the past weeks. On the Glastonbury side one house is ...   more »
View Article  Chalice Ensemble - a local treasure
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 »
View Article  You have to plan Fun well in advance
The annual Fun Day is to be on June 10th 2006.   more »
View Article  Carols around a Street Christmas tree
Let's put it on record: December 1st is the Big Sing in Street.   more »
View Article  Street Societies
The list of organisations invited to a recent meeting shows how much activity there is in Street.   more »
View Article  Street Neighbourhood Watch Association
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 »
View Article  Authorities agreed with me
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 »
View Article  Pubs are hilarious
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 »
View Article  Doing Nelson proud
Just got back from the Trafalgar Day celebrations in the Parish Church.   more »
View Article  Nina gets us pulling together
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 »
View Article  Is the Roman road between Street and Glastonbury disappearing?
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 »
View Article  What a good idea! Why hasn't it been done before?
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 »
View Article  Opera in Crispin, do I hear?
I was enjoying a glass of wine after the Millfield concert this evening (see my review here) when I overheard   more »
View Article  Excitement! New Street Society Committee met today!
It could have been so boring.

It was a changed committee. We have lost our chairman, Ann Webb, and changed ...   more »
View Article  What's happened while I've been away?
I've just returned from a week in the south of France. Among the joys of the holiday were the food ...   more »
View Article  And it's goodbye from her ...
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 »
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