My grandfather, Edwin Charles Dowding lived at Grange Lodge, Street during the early 1920's.   more »

Some pretty sights in Street, Tuesday morning 6th November 2007.   more »

Some video of the service and parade on Trafalgar Day 2007   more »

Bygone Years in Street now has a nice collection of photos of the Cross and of Holmcroft and its first owner.   more »

A number of shops have ceased trading. Some have been replaced.   more »

The Mendip Conservation Advisory Panel met this afternoon and gave a welcome to an expanded Conservation Area for Street.   more »

This was made about 3 years ago, and farm building conversions and new building have taken place since - and we have lost Tower House - but the area is still deserving of being part of a conservation area.   more »

On the coach, arrival, introductory talk, and first exploration of the Abbey Gardens.   more »

The phrase is 'low profile'. Clarks Shoe Museum is just .... there. It hasn't got a website that I can find, and it doesn't advertise itself much.   more »

I don't necessarily support this view, but people should have the chance to make up their minds.   more »

I don't necessarily support this view, but people should have the chance to make up their minds.   more »

Most of this blog is about very local matters, but the Anglican churches in Street and Walton will have (should have) an interest in the world-wide Church we are part of.   more »

A Sunday afternoon guided tour of the battlefield was organised by Bridgwater Civic Society. They kindly invited visitors from the Street Society.   more »

Pupils of all ages joined in making an evening of varied music in Street Parish Church last night. I shall try to give some account of the concert later, but for now I reproduce something about the surprise guest   more »

I don't know whether you are aware of the "Online Parish Clerk" scheme (OPC) for family historians?   more »

I've just spotted a nice pic of the old Tin Church,   more »

I hope I'm not too late to see the butterfly this year.   more »

I am trying to trace the parentage of Henry Willey, my great grandfather, born 1834 and found in the 1851 Census ...   more »

Video of some highlights of yesterday's visit   more »

Members of the Street Society were entertained by Bridgwater Civic Society to a guided tour and refreshments in the Mayor's Parlour today, 19th June 2007.   more »

This comment was posted on YouTube, on the video "The End of Holmcroft".   more »

Planning permission for the site has been refused by Mendip:   more »

The 19th century house on Somerset Road, which was located in a conservation area, has been thoroughly demolished. This 34 secondvideo shows the pile of rubble that was Holmcroft.   more »

When I first saw this car just by the crossroads that you come to on leaving Street past Bowlingreen Mill, I just hoped no one was inside.   more »

From the Royal Diary   more »

Video of two of the items   more »

A one-minute video of Tower House, minus most of its roof.   more »

Mendip has turned down the latest planning application for the Tower House site. Apparently the decision is likely to go to appeal.   more »

Two of the houses that gave individuality to Street are even now being demolished. McCarthy and Stone took the roof tiles off Holmcroft a few days ago, and this evening as I passed I could see over their protective screen that the upper storey is quickly vanishing.   more »

A worrying message today that demolition of the Tower House in Overleigh has started, before the planning application goes before Mendip District Council on Wednesday.   more »

Some pictures from the Society's visit to Sainsbury's on 15th May 2007   more »

Westhay Heath Iron Age settlement was inhabited on Monday by a group who are, they tell me, the only re-enactment group dedicated exclusively to Iron Age living.   more »

Short video of Greylake RSPB Nature Reserve.   more »

For this week only you can read the biography of the early novelist Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones, on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, free.   more »

April 2007. Five diggers are at work on the building site, and a friend living in the High Street tells me that the house shakes. Hope it's all worth it in the end.   more »

Video of Montacute on Easter Monday 2007 - a sunny day. What a turn-up for the book!   more »

The owner of 33 Portway, pictured here, has applied for outline planning permission for a house behind No 33. The difficulty is that there could be no proper access to a house there, without removing the handsome - and protected - tree.   more »

On the way back from a musical date in Baltonsborough this afternoon I couldn't resist taking a few minutes of video in the wonderful sunny weather.   more »