The Alternative Correspondent: I was a virgin Rambler
By Harry Mottram: It’s something I’ve always wanted to do: go on a walk with the Ramblers Association and discover…
The Alternative Correspondence THEATRE REVIEW: A brilliant ‘Chaucer-tastic’ production of Chauntecleer and Pertelotte at the Alma Tavern Theatre
By Harry Mottram: At times it was hard to keep up with the machine gun speed of the dialogue in…
Axbridge News: Community Cinema Club set to screen first movies in the Town Hall – but bring your own popcorn
By Harry Mottram: A well-attended meeting in the Lamb Inn last month organised by Paul Botsford saw a plan to…
The Alternative Correspondence THEATRE PREVIEW: a foolish cockerel and a crafty fox play out one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in Chauntecleer and Pertelotte
By Harry Mottram: One of Geoffrey Chaucer’s stories from the Canterbury Tales is set to be played out by chickens,…
Axbridge News: Ian Tabrett charts the history of the town’s gothic revival Home for Consumptives where scores of people died and were buried in unmarked graves in the latest local history newsletter Retrospect
By Harry Mottram: If you’ve ever stumbled through the woodland above Axbridge bypass near St Michael’s House you may have…
Axbridge News: BREAKING Axbridge’s local history group and King John’s Hunting Lodge Museum scoop national award
By Harry Mottram: The Collections Trust who work with museums to help them to transform and research their ‘unsung collections’…
Bath Voice Opinion: in praise of Adam Fergusson and Tim Mowl’s book The Sack of Bath – And After – and a plea to reflect on the historic value of buildings from the 20th century before reducing them to rubble
September 16, 2025 By Harry Mottram: Looking back it is hard to believe there was a near contempt by many…
ICSM Business News: the massive debts run up by Talk Talk before its collapse – how privatisation of a debt free state utility became a free for all with creditors picking up the bill
By Harry Mottram: Broadband provider Talk Talk is to be taken over by telecommunications giant BT in a £400m pre-pack…
The Alternative Correspondent Comment: the tragedy of the neglected Globe Theatre in Rome – closing theatres denies citizens of live drama
By Harry Mottram: I made my way through undergrowth, brambles and thick bushes and there it was: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.…
The Alternative Correspondent: Unreliable Postcard from Rome – not getting deported, double cooked, mosquito bites, anti-fascists, scammers and the Instagram generation of tourists
By Harry Mottram: Two priests arguing in a café over Manchester City, a nun filling her supermarket trolley with pork…