Stakeholder update from North Somerset Council 16th April 2021

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Friday 16 April 2021

Dear all

Latest coronavirus data

Recorded cases of coronavirus have continued to fall in North Somerset.

31 new cases have been identified in the latest seven-day period reported for North Somerset compared with 39 the previous week. Our case rate per 100,000 head of population has decreased to 14.4. This compares with a South West figure of 13.8, and an England rate of 28.0.

There is a lag in case data meaning the latest information is for the week ending Saturday 10 April.

You can see more detail on our local case data at www.n-somerset.gov.uk/lomp.
Case data is also available at national, regional, council and neighbourhood level at https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases
Vaccinations in North Somerset
The latest figures published show that up to 15 April 64.21% of North Somerset residents aged 16 and over have had at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccination.
You can view vaccination data on the NHS website.
If you’re 45 or over you can now book online for your vaccination or call 119 without having to wait to be invited by your GP.
Funeral arrangements for His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh
The funeral of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh will take place on Saturday (17 April).
There’ll be a national minute’s silence at 3pm, at the start of the funeral. Our services and venues that are open at that time will be observing the silence and the Union flag will still be flying at half-mast over the Town Hall in Weston and Castlewood in Clevedon.
We understand that local businesses may be pausing trading for that minute to observe the silence. The government has set out guidance about the national period of mourning on their website which includes a short section for businesses.
Should you wish to leave a personal message of condolence you can at www.royal.uk
In keeping with protocol and guidance, flags should return to full mast from 8am on Sunday.
Covid-19 home testing kit collection points expanded
Anyone who lives or works in North Somerset without symptoms of coronavirus can collect free rapid tests to do themselves at home from a range of pharmacies and collection points across North Somerset.
A total of 38 pharmacies across the area, including Locking, Winscombe, Congresbury, Backwell, Yatton, Long Ashton, Pill and Wrington, now offer the collection service alongside Hutton Moor leisure centre in Weston, Somerset Hall in Portishead, and Scotch Horn car park in Nailsea.
You can also pick up home test kits from the Covid-19 testing sites at Locking Road car park in Weston and Bristol Airport daily from 2.30-8pm.
You nearest collection site can be found on the NHS Test and Trace map.
If you would rather take your test on site, where staff will process the results for you, our testing centres at Hutton Moor, Scotch Horn car park and Somerset Hall are open seven days a week 8.30am-5.30pm with late opening until 7.30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For more information and to book visit www.n-somerset.gov.uk/rapidtesting
NHS Test and Trace registration
Lots of premises must display an NHS QR code poster and ask anyone aged 16 and over to scan the code when visiting them. This includes pubs, restaurants, leisure facilities, and salons. If you don’t have a smart phone or you’re unable to scan the code, you’ll need to leave your contact details in another way.
This is part of NHS Test and Trace and is for contact tracing purposes. It means businesses can react quickly to any cases of coronavirus and people can be notified if they might have been exposed to Covid-19 – helping to stop the spread.
Please be aware that if you’re visiting somewhere as a group (up to six people or two households), everyone in the group will have to check in. This is different from last year when one person could provide their info on behalf of the group.
Hospitality venues like pubs, bars and restaurants have a legal duty to refuse entry to anyone who won’t give their contact details.
More guidance on the contact tracing requirements can be found at Gov.UK.
Local vaccination update
Thanks to the thousands of people involved, the NHS has now offered vaccines to everyone aged 50 and over as well as millions of health and social care workers, unpaid carers and people at higher clinical risk – over 27 million first doses.
Having reached this important milestone, they are now offering first dose vaccinations to people in the next eligible group 45-49 year olds, alongside making sure those who are due it can receive their second dose. Locally thousands of new first dose appointments have been opened, available now to book via theNational Booking Systemor by calling 119.
Ashton Gate in Bristol is among the first vaccination clinics in the country to offer the Moderna vaccine. From this week it has started to be used as part of the vaccine-mix, alongside AstraZeneca and Pfizer.
Some people may have concerns about having the AstraZeneca vaccine following the announcement of a possible link between this vaccine and an extremely rare form of blood clot.
By 31 March, 20.2 million doses of the Covid-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca had been given in the UK meaning the overall risk of these blood clots is approximately 4 people in a million who receive the vaccine.
The benefits of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine outweigh any risks for the vast majority of people and you should still book your Covid-19 vaccine when asked to do so.
Following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), our local services will be offering people under 30 who have not yet had their first Covid-19 vaccination, an alternative vaccine.
Anyone who has already had a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine without suffering this specific form of extremely rare blood clot should have their second dose. This includes people aged 18 to 29 years.
Vaccination information for people with severe mental illness
Public Health England’s mental health team has developed a series of short videos on Covid-19 vaccination to support and encourage people with severe mental illness to get their vaccinations.
The videos have been developed by Public Health England in collaboration withEqually Well UK and NHS England, including GP professionals and Expert by Experience.
They provide useful information for people with severe mental illness to know what to expect from the vaccination process and how to prepare before their appointments.
They also provide information for primary care professionals to better support people with severe mental illness.
  • Getting the COVID-19 vaccine: Personal experience guide for people with severe mental illness, Part 1
  • Getting the COVID-19 vaccine: Personal experience guide for people with severe mental illness, Part 2
  • COVID-19 vaccination: A guide for GPs and teams to support people with severe mental illness
Think 111 first for urgent medical care
Although numbers of people in our hospitals unwell with Covid-19 are decreasing, local NHS services remain very busy.
If you have an urgent but non-life-threatening medical need, make sure you use NHS 111 first rather than going straight to A&E.
If you do need urgent care, NHS 111 can now book you in to be seen quickly and safely at the best service for your needs.
Contacting NHS 111 first will also help the NHS to keep you safe by maintaining social distancing and making sure you get the right care in the right place, in a timely and safe way. You should still dial 999 if you have a life-threatening illness or injury.
Reopening guide for businesses
As lockdown restrictions are eased through the government’s four-step roadmap, and with some businesses reopening for the first time in months, our economy team has created a guide to help your business stay Covid secure and play its part in the area’s economic recovery.
The guide covers working safely in different types of business environment, the four-step roadmap, looking after your staff and customers, town centre facilities and detailed guidance on outdoor structures and track and trace. The guide also contains information on regulatory matters as well as sources of more general business support and information.
The guide is available on theInnorthsomerset website.
Street café permissions
All street café permissions are set to expire at the end of September, when the current temporary legislation ends. We have been advised this is likely to be extended for another year, but as the legislation does not allow for renewal or extension, we are expecting anyone with permission to have to apply again.
We have done a tour around the area to identify areas that could be used for outside seating, but the majority who could safely accommodate outside furniture have already applied. We always try to accommodate where we can, but there have been a few requests which we have had to turn down because the safety of customers and/or pedestrians passing would be at risk.
We have visited all businesses with permanent street café permissions and discussed how best they can spread out (safely but maybe in a larger area than their permit states) to accommodate social distancing measures.
Permits are only needed for adopted highway areas, so anywhere on private land such as seafronts, shopping centres, or private forecourts, do not require licensing.
Events in step 2
With the latest relaxation in Covid-19 restrictions, some outdoor events can now take place.
An event can take place at step 2 if:
  1. All three of the following conditions are met: a) The event takes place outdoors b) Attendees are expected to arrive and leave the event in a staggered manner throughout the day c) It does not involve attendees converging on and congregating in a site for a specific discrete performance or activity, such as a theatre or music performance, OR
  2. It is a drive-in performance or show.
This could include events such as:
  • agricultural shows
  • steam rallies
  • flower shows
  • gardening shows and events
  • literary fairs
  • car boot sales
  • community fairs
  • village fetes
  • animal and pet shows
  • funfairs and fairgrounds
  • drive-in cinemas and drive-in performance events, for example comedy, dance, music, theatre and air shows. People attending drive-in events should remain in their vehicle for the duration of the performance.
  • food and drink festivals where the festival resembles an outdoor food market or outdoor hospitality venue, but if people are consuming food and drink at the venue, the table service rule would apply.
Events that are able to take place during step 2 are not subject to a capacity cap on attendees. The government guidance for organised events says these events should have fewer than 4,000 attendees per day.
Organisers of events that are likely to have more than 4,000 attendees should notify us. Events can only take place if the event organisers can assure us that attendees will be dispersed across a sufficiently large geographic area or will be sufficiently distributed throughout the day, so as to mitigate the risk of crowding, including entry and exit points, toilets and food and drink facilities, and on public transport. Event organisers should follow Covid-secure guidance and must adhere to legal requirements.
We recommend when planning for an event during this period that you stay flexible. Include social distancing and testing requirements in your plans, and create a contingency plan to adapt or even cancel your event close to the launch date if needed, depending on government advice.
Symptomatic Covid-19 testing
Anyone with symptoms of Covid-19 – new continuous cough, loss of or change in sense of taste or smell, or a high temperature – must self-isolate and book a test straight away at www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test orby calling 119. You should do this even if you think the symptoms have another cause, such as a cold or vaccination side effects.
You can get your symptomatic test in North Somerset at Locking Road car park (Weston-super-Mare), Castlewood (Clevedon) or Bristol Airport.
Self-isolating
Anyone who develops a new continuous cough, high temperature, or change to their sense of taste or smell must self-isolate straight away and book a symptomatic Covid-19 test at www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test orby calling 119.
If the test is positive you will need to continue to isolate for 10 days, and your contacts will also need to start isolating for 10 days.
Self-isolating is essential in keeping the infection levels as low as possible in North Somerset.
If you need financial or practical support to self-isolate you can find information about what’s available, including details of the £500 self-isolation payment, at www.n-somerset.gov.uk/together
Busy times at recycling centres
Now that ‘stay at home’ Covid restrictions have been lifted and the weather is brightening up, we are expecting our three recycling centres to be very busy over the coming days.
We are starting to see increased use of our three centres, so to minimise the queues that we’ve experienced so far this month, we encourage everyone to plan their visits in advance and be aware of the additional safety measures we have in place.
Our recycling centres at Portishead, Backwell and Weston-super-Mare are all now operating on their longer summer hours times, so there’s more flexibility to avoid busy times.
This weekend at Backwell we will have extra staff monitoring traffic.
Please use the kerbside collection services as much as possible.
If you go to the recycling centre, try to wait until you have a full load and pack items together to save time on site.
If you do have to queue please turn your engine off. When you get onto the site follow the signs which are there to help you and please be courteous to our staff.
At the moment staff cannot help with unloading.
There’s lots of information on our website about what can be put out for the weekly recycling collections and what can be accepted at the recycling centres – visit www.n-somerset.gov.uk/bins-recycling and you can visit the Facebook page for North Somerset Council’s waste and recycling for the latest updates at www.facebook.com/nsrecyclingandwaste/
In other news…
Childminders, preschools and nurseries have had praise heaped on them by parents who have really appreciated the support they’ve offered throughout the Coronavirus pandemic.
People are being invited to have their say on plans to improve sustainable travel links in Yatton.
Almost 96 per cent of on time applicants in North Somerset have been offered their first choice school for reception classes in September.
North Somerset Council will be formally consulting this week on plans to change the use of two pieces of land from open spaces to sites for a school and housing.

20mph Speed Limit – Hill Lane and Cadbury Lane

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The Speedwatch team have received reports of vehicles suspected of breaching the 20mph limit this week in Hill Lane, Cadbury Lane and Weston Drove. Residents are reminded that all tributary streets leading from the main 20mph section of the B3124 are covered by the 20mph restriction.

As yet we are unsure if the speeding vehicles are local residents, visitors or delivery/trade in origin. For the latter, residents are urged to report speeding commercial vehicles to their respective head-office.

Theft of dumper – 1st April 2021

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On or about 1 April, during hours of darkness, my Thwaites 1 tonne dumper was stolen from my garden. The thieves cut through the barbed wire fence and drove the machine out across the fields, emerging onto the road by cutting through a padlocked chain securing a field gate. It might be coincidence, but some 3 weeks previously three men were seen with lurcher dogs walking this same route. Two were youths, the third was older (40s or 50s) with close cropped hair. If anyone can help shed any light on the case, please contact me (lewis@dairy.me.uk, or 07500 068087) or the police on 121 David Lewis

Parking in Church Lane

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We recognise that there is an ongoing problem with the lack of parking spaces in the village, but we must ask that people take greater care when parking in Church Lane. This morning, Easter Saturday, cars formed a chicane which we could only just get through.

We quite often have deliveries of building materials, concrete etc at The Dairy, and we are concerned that lorries might not be able to reach us, or that parked cars might be damaged in the process.

For the benefit of churchgoers, on occasions when there is a larger than usual attendance, we are very happy for our tarmacked parking area to be used (but not the grass please!)

David and Chris Lewis

Parish Pump Online

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Dear Parish Pump readers,

One cannot begin an article on the future of the Parish Pump without first spending time congratulating Stu Redway on the herculean achievement which is the Parish Pump to-date. The positive impact the Parish Pump has on our community is of huge significance, binding us as one entity, giving us our identity in our amazing parish and village. I hope I reflect the feeling in the parish by saying we cannot thank Stu enough for his commitment and diligence in providing us with this long standing and cherished periodical. I would personally and publicly like to thank Stu, not just for the amazing work he has done, but for being so open and willing to collaborate on the future vision for the Parish Pump.

The astute readers will have seen my introductory article in the last edition, upon joining the Weston-in-Gordano Parish Council and my passion for providing an online resource and service to parishioners, an area which needed focus to bring us not just into compliance with regulations, but to provide a steppingstone, a solid base for the great work the council and other community groups wish to excel at in the coming months and years.
No doubt some readers will have reacted to my bio with concern, fearing a departure from tradition and the accepted status quo regarding the Parish Pump. To that concern I wish to explain further my vision and seek to remove any concern parishioners and readers may have.

It is without question that the hardcopy edition of the Parish Pump is not only required, but loved, cherished and part of the parish DNA. I feel the hardcopy should remain, albeit compiled and produced by different means, to be available for all who want it. This for me is a mandatory core principle for the future of the Parish Pump.
Another core principle, arguably of equal footing, is looking forward to the future, embracing new norms and exploring the exciting potential of the online medium. Reasoning dictates that with two such principles a third is almost implied, both endeavours must work in unison, respecting each other and complimenting each other, symbiotic without conflict.

The online presence, afforded by the new parish website, www.wigparishcouncil.co.uk, brings with it immense flexibility to post content at a moments notice, anything from notices to full blown articles, photographs and video, indeed all conceivable content can be displayed online with limited effort and cost. This enables the council to inform users as and when needed, pushing content out to social media, which parishioners can follow as it happens, or indeed digest at their leisure over Sunday morning breakfast. Content which was difficult to share at the appropriate time, for example communications from North Somerset Council, details of road closures or faulty lights, can now be disseminated to the parish at a moments notice. But this was never the stomping ground of the Parish Pump, I hear you cry. “You’ve gone off topic”, I hear the heckles now.

My point is this: Bulletins and announcements from the council are just the beginning. With a blank canvass platform, we the parish can have a voice, in the same way we do with the Parish Pump now. Parish history, walks, nature articles, photography, recipes, wellbeing content, announcements, marriages, births, local businesses, the categories of interest will grow as content is provided, content which can be online within minutes. This initial minor outlay of effort on my behalf to post the content grants those of us following online the immediate consumption we crave, but it also provides a wealth of content for the hardcopy Parish Pump I mentioned above. Compiled from the best of the website articles, already in electronic format, ready for the printers to mass produce.

One avenue to create content, two end products. Two different principles, working as one, serving the different needs of the community.

How is this achieved? To begin with I will define a way in which content can be provided to me either electronically or in hardcopy, mindful of current safety measures in place of course. Next, I will be looking for content providers, anyone who can spare a few minutes to put an article together, budding gardeners sharing their tips, the Nigelas and Jamies of the village to provide recipes, ornithologists and zoologists with their “just spotted in Weston-in-Gordano” reports, photographers, mindfulness experts, historians, editors and illustrators. If you have a skill, a passion, and time to spare to enrich our community, then we can grow the online and hardcopy offering into something amazing. I dream that we can come close to deserving the prestigious title of Parish Pump, that Stu has entrusted to us.

Cllr Daveran Baulch (article first published in The Parish Pump March 2021 edition)

The Village Green

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The Village Green: We are moving forward to the exciting phase!

Having done a lot of the hard work on the “Green”, the time has come for the exciting phase!

Here are some thoughts on how we will now develop a planting plan.

The Village Green, the site and plant considerations: The site is mainly sunny with free draining neutral soil. As this is a public space we will need to be looking for robust drought resistant plants with a contrast of shape and texture. There should be a majority of plants that offer year-round interest. We must also of course be mindful of how large specimens will grow and whether they tolerate pruning. Our choices should look good together, forming an overall picture rather than a collection of “favourites” that do not blend well. We also hope to incorporate perfumed and insect friendly varieties.

The Plan Here is a sketch of the outline plan that we have already discussed, that has also been shown to the Parish Council, which has agreed to fund the cost of most of the materials, including a hard-wearing bench. A group of members of the Gardening Group are donating the time and labour to prepare and plant the new garden. Two other members of the community have also committed to significant generous donations of their skills and time.

As you probably remember, the central stone plinth around the pump is due to be renovated shortly by Keven Cranshaw, as a generous contribution to the village. We are also really grateful to Christopher Jones for his offer to provide a smart new hardwood case for the pump itself. A big thank you to Kevin and Christopher! These offers of time and skills are wonderful and will make the funds allocated for materials by the Parish Council go so much further – thank you to everyone.

The area between the pump plinth and the new beds will be fine gravel, for easy maintenance which will show the new beds off well. Stone slabs will form a pathway into the garden, by the Hill Lane sign. Gravel will be softened with some planting of specimens that love these conditions – as in the style of Beth Chatto’s gravel gardens.

This is your opportunity to help us select the plants! We really want members of the group to contribute to the firming up of the planting plan. The sketch of the garden shows each of the new beds, labelled with letters A to E. Based on the determining features of the site, Chris has helped us by drawing up a list of best bet structural plants for each position, which are shown below. As we want the planting to last, we have listed plants that are the most likely to thrive in each position, although there is a bit of an outsider at the end of the list!

If you would like to help choose the plants, have a look at the plants that are suggested for each position in the lists below, and see which you think would be the most suitable, to create the overall harmonious effect that we are seeking. Let us know by email, and of course if you have an idea of something else do please throw that into the mix as well! (Penny suggested her favourite bee friendly mahonias but on discussion, we decided that was not a good idea as it was too spikey for such a small public place!)

Date for feedback please: We hope to agree on the list for purchasing plants by the end of March, so do please let us have your feedback by 31.3.21. Please email Chris – address at the end of newsletter.

If you would like to be more involved, do let us know! It would be brilliant to have a small group to chew over the final choices – just give one of us a call or email.

Selecting the larger shrubs
The larger shrubs will provide the backbone of the planting scheme, so need to be the first plants to be chosen. In the details below, each main planting position is given a letter A-E. In a couple of places there is a note about specific conditions that we need to bear in mind. You will see that in some positions there are two or more options suggested, so help with decisions would be great! Of course if you have an idea of something that you think ticks the boxes, again just a quick email and we can share it with the group.

Position A

 

Plant Sale

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As you have probably seen from the Parish Pump, the hope is that we will be able to hold another self-service Plant Sale this year, on

Saturday 22 May and Sunday 23 May

10.00am-5.00pm

Obviously the success of the plant sale, is dependant on us, as members of the group providing the plants to sell. We always do so well, particularly due to the sterling efforts of Ann and Chris, but the more people that can contribute, even if it is just a couple of plants, the better the choice for everyone! Perhaps you have one or two spare plants that could be potted up now, so that they are in perfect condition, for the sale? Or perhaps you will have some annual flower or veg plants that you could spare?

How are the cuttings going that we took at Becky’s garden meeting? Note from Penny: “Mine are doing really well, and might perhaps even be ready for the sale – should have done more! Useful note to remember for next year. By the way, I can’t remember who donated the little hebe cuttings, could you tell me which one it is, I’ve lost the label?”

Plants available now!

Geoffrey Mitchell has been lovingly tending his sweet pea seedlings all through Lock-Down. They are now hardened off and looking for some green fingered new owners! All proceeds will go to the Plant Sale for the Church Funds – for their new boiler. Geoffrey gave us an interesting talk on methods for growing spectacular plants, – but I am sure that if you speak nicely to them, his plants will be prepared to just get on and climb your trellis or pea sticks!

The following are for sale:

  • Show quality, mixed colour sweet peas. Grown from first class seed last October, they have received individual attention, been hardened off, and are now flourishing plants 3-4” tall, some 6” £2 each
  • Sweet peas, miniatures, some two colour mauve and purple, also ready to go out £1.50 each
  • Wild perennial sweet peas, seed collected locally, magenta, white perhaps also? £1 each
  • Vegetable plants will be available to pre-order: Runner beans and broad beans – if you order asap Geoff will go and get some more seed if needed. 50p per plant

To order, email Geoffrey, he’s looking forward to a rush of emails! geoffreymitchell2@icloud.com

Weston in Gordano Manor House

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Strictly speaking, Weston has had three manor houses over the centuries.

As long ago as the 12th century – about the same time as the earliest part of the parish church was built – there was a moated manorial settlement some 200m south east of the church. This was probably a timber structure, and little remains to be seen, although in the south east corner of the site there is still a small L-shaped pond which may be the remains of the moat. It dries out in summer. The rest of the site has been covered in several feet of fly ash, the waste from the coal-fired powers stations which used to stand in Portishead. It is inhabited by swarms of rabbits which are distinctive because of their dark, almost black, coats: possibly the fly ash, perhaps a genetic variation.

The second manor house site lies about 150m down the lane beside the church, directly behind our house, The Dairy. When the lane was tarmacked in 2004 we found a cobbled surface under the mud, so this was obviously the route from the manor to the church.

This manor house was built in about 1430 by the Perceval family, lords of the manor of Weston from the 1100s to the 1700s. This is the building shown in the engraving, the original of which is in the Somerset County Archive. It’s unusual in being built so low down in the valley, where you might think there was a risk of flooding, but the valley is very wide and even in the extremes of weather in recent years, this has never been a threat. It has been suggested that what is now the main drainage rhyne was navigable by flat bottomed boats, which might explain its position, but this is speculation.

Today all that is left of the building is a small section of field wall in the south west corner. The lord of the manor at the time backed the wrong side in the English Civil War, so it became a “bit of a ruin that Cromwell knocked about.” His troops burnt and demolished part, but it remained habitable: the engraving is dated 1742, so it was a huge house even then.

After the Restoration, the lord of the manor, Thomas Perceval, who was financially stretched, applied to the King for some reward for his loyalty. All he received was two royal visits to Weston, the cost of which ruined him. The Percevals sold up in 1705 to the son of the lord of Easton in Gordano. In 1714 he died, and the estate was sold to Cann Wilkins, thought to be a Bristol merchant. Wilkins built the third manor house, now known as Weston Lodge, on top of the hill looking down through the woodland to the church and the village.

The manor house of 1430, in its reduced state, remained in use as a farmhouse, but was finally demolished at some point after 1742. But stone is very heavy and transporting it is expensive: look around at the older buildings in our village. It is likely that at least some of them were built of the demolition spoil purloined from the Percevals’ manor house. Many local field walls are built of finely dressed stone which must originally have been prepared, at great expense, for a stately building.

When landscaping our garden, we came across huge quantities of this dressed stone, and much of it has been incorporated into our work. The Percevals’ manor house lives on!

Content kindly provided by David Lewis

Fatal accident at Weston-in-Gordano

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Western Daily Press

OCT. 19, 1888

Threshing machine explosion. One dead.

At Mr Perkin’s farm Weston-in-Gordano, yesterday, during some steam threshing operations, the engine boiler burst. The driver William Lodge of Yatton, who was the owner of the threshing machine, was so seriously hurt that he died shortly after. A dog was also killed.

The straw and some corn ricks were entirely consumed. The Clevedon Fire Brigade were promptly on the spot under the command of Sir E. H. Elton. The Superintendent and their efforts were mainly directed to the preservation of some neighbouring ricks in which they were successful. The threshing machine was entirely destroyed. The farm produce was insured.

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Dedication of a Lychgate

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Western Daily Press

NOV. 30, 1897

Jubilee memorial is dedicated in Weston-in-Gordano

The jubilee memorial in this parish, which look form of a new lychgate at the entrance to the churchyard, was solemnly dedicated on Friday evening by the Venerable the Archdeacon of Bath. The gate is a massive structure of oak, resting on a stone wall on either side, the roof being covered with brown Brose tiles, and is a copy, with a slight alteration, of the fifteenth century one in Middlesex.

All transcriptions appearing here have been created exclusively for the website, from the original documents.

There are hundreds of articles to process and transcribe, which will take time, so please return to see new content as its added.

 

Original newspaper scans are provided by the British Newspaper Archive