Author Archive: harrymottram
VIDEO: Stretchmark Theatre – Push – film by Geoff Dunlop for the play by Harry Mottram
This is the first of the videos which linked the action in the house to the outside world. The drama about a home birth was performed in the Oakhouse Hotel in Axbridge and the Alma Tavern Theatre in Bristol. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzdxiuWz8CA
Cheddar Reservoir: recent photographs of the magical scene at dawn in July as the waters greet the new day under the shadow of the Mendip Hills
Summer dawns on Somerset’s large strawberry shaped reservoir between Axbridge and Cheddar are often glorious affairs. Golden sunrises at around 5am are a particular feast as the 1930s reservoir acts as a mirror to the sky. Here a few images of the last few days in July 2019.
VIDEO: The Axbridge to Cheddar Strawberry Line
Join us and take a walk or a ride along the Strawberry Line and check out the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR_cTuVdPGU
AXBRIDGE NEWS: the website for the 2020 Axbridge Pageant is now live
In 1963 the former Cheddar Valley Railway often called The Strawberry Line was closed after almost a century of use. A few years later the line above the town was turned into the bypass ending the traffic jams that had dogged the town for years. To celebrate a pageant was proposed to chart the town’s […]
Children’s Theatre Review: More 21st century girl power than 1950s jolly hockey sticks in Emma Rice’s version of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers in this highly enjoyable family show
Malory Towers, Bristol. Review. Pack your suitcase, grab your hockey stick and take the train from the Passenger Shed at Bristol’s Temple Mead railway station for Malory Towers this summer writes Harry Mottram. The cavernous building is the venue for a production of the boarding school adventures inspired and abridged from Enid Blyton’s novels. Bursting […]
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE FEATURE: the extraordinarily accurate predictions on Boris, Number 10 and why Brexit won’t happen – a personal view by Harry Mottram
Over a year ago Harry Mottram wrote an article explaining why Brexit couldn’t happen and why Boris Johnson will be PM for just 100 days. So far the predictions are uncannily accurate. Below is the article which I updated in February – perhaps I should predict the National Lottery numbers! BREXIT won’t happen because it […]
Theatre preview: Tangle Tree comes West featuring former Stretch Mark Theatre’s Push star Bristol actor Jasmine Darke in pivotal role in drama about ‘catastrophic event’
For Hazel and her mother Ivy, their lives have suddenly stopped. They are caught in a maelstrom.’Am I dead?’ Hazel asks, as her mother Ivy contemplates the past and looks into an unknown future.A catastrophic event forces the two women to face reality. What is familiar – where is the thread? Is it in the wool, […]
Strawberry Line Times: the cycle and walk way to Cheddar needs investment – please help
The Axbridge-Cheddar Cycle Walkway Appeal As part of The Strawberry Line, the Axbridge-Cheddar Cycle Walkway (ACCW) came into being over thirty years ago through voluntary efforts after a serious road accident to a schoolboy cycling into Cheddar. Although its land is leased from Sedgemoor District Council (SDC), neither SDC nor Somerset County Council (SCC) contribute […]
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES: Photos of Cheddar Reservoir at dawn
Some photos taken on my mobile phone when out for early morning jogs in April and May 2019, around Cheddar Reservoir.
STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES: video – a meadow on a May afternoon in Axbridge full of wild flowers
This was the scene on a sunny afternoon in May in the field at Townsend Farm where a carpet of wild flowers stretched out across the acres of pasture land. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP1-KoqTPtU .
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