The Axbridge Children’s Trail is up and running – it features 25 places of interest to follow beginning at the Town Square and ending at the playground on the Furlong Field. Pick up the leaflet at the Museum and see if you can follow the trail and getting spotting. The website www.axbridgeheritagetrails.com explains how the heritage trail […]
Every single home in Axbridge was once a new build with some suggesting that perhaps when it comes to development ‘enough is enough.’Unlike some towns new builds and new estates in Axbridge have been fairly small in size caused in part by the limited land available – squeezed as it is between the Mendips and […]
The former mayor of Axbridge Barbara Wells has been talking about the team of women behind the vast number of costumes produced for the Axbridge Pageant. Barbara Wells who leads a team of 25 volunteers to make the costumes along with Jackie Fowler. See the video here: https://youtu.be/kjpydFDwsww The Axbridge Pageant is set to take […]
In an interview with Radio Somerset this morning the Axbridge Chamber of Commerce’s secretary Harry Mottram conveyed the feelings of the town’s business community about Royal Mail’s closure of the sorting office. He said: “The Sorting Office has been run very successfully for 150 years and there is no reason to close it other than […]
The Chamber of Commerce in Axbridge have moved to support the establishment of the town’s proposed heritage trails following a donation to help get the project up and running. Brief reminder of the scheme: A website, www.axbridgeheritagetrails.com A Heritage Trail for all, encouraging local people and visitors to walk around out historic Town and finding out […]
New law to fight fraud The passage of the Ratings (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill through parliament this summer is slow and complex but its eventual passing will be welcomed by ICSM boss Ian Carrotte. “It’s about time,” he said, “it’s a tightening of the law that is long over due as the […]
The academic behind the project Redress of the Past Paul Readman of King’s College London, attended the event to record the costume makers for a project to chart pageants. He said: “The Redress of the Past is a collaborative research project drawing on the expertise of scholars from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Glasgow, […]
A lively and upbeat morality tale, Our House is a musical that harnesses the music of the 80s ska band Madness and some of the social issues of Thatcher’s Britain. Injustices, unscrupulous developers and crime are aired in an over complex plot which director Kevin Gaunlett did his best to clarify. It was a calm […]
Pageant fever! Historical pageants and the British past. An exhibition and drama at Cecil Sharp House, London Paul Readman of Kings College in London has released photographs of the Axbridge Community Theatre production on Saturday 8th August 2021 at Cecil Sharp House in London. Members of Axbridge Community Theatre performed a short preview play for […]
Members of the Axbridge Chamber of Commerce, the town’s Postmaster Richard Helps and postal workers in the town have been left stunned with the news that the Royal Mail’s sorting office will close on Saturday 21st August 2021. Despite assurances from Royal Mail that the closure was being reviewed and hints it may stay open […]
From The House on the Square to Dodgy Keeper… Stretchmark Theatre stages plays written by Harry Mottram. It effectively began in 1997 with the pantomime Humpty Dumpty staged in Axbridge
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The Rapscallion is an occasional online magazine written and illustrated by Harry mottram. Last issue included:
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++++++++++++++ Join the Chamber – the organisation for businesses in or connected to the town and the self-employed and interested parties If you would like to join the Axbridge Chamber
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Currently Bristol Water are building a pipeline from Cheddar to Barrow using part of the Strawberry Line as their conduit for the work. Before this work they wanted to construct
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New book on one midwife’s journey Midlife to Midwife by Linda Mottram After a bad day childminding and following one too many glasses of wine, this book takes you through
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STRAWBERRY LINE TIMES – Theatre Review: And so it came to pass that an anarchic and highly enjoyable version of the Nativity took place with Kid Carpet and a hedgehog
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