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Swans on the Levels

Byharrymottram

Jun 29, 2020

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  • Home
  • About Harry
  • Axbridge Diary
  • Publications
    • Agenda West
    • Axbridge
      • Axbridge Features
        • ACT’s early days
        • Axbridge Square
        • Axbridge Square in 1952
        • Basle Air Disaster
        • Books and wine
        • Building Cheddar Reservoir
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 1
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 2
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 3
        • Progressive funnies
        • Progressive Supper 2025
        • Progressive Supper Details
        • Progressive Supper Review
      • Axbridge News
      • Axbridge Pageant
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant 2029
        • Axbridge Pageant archive
        • Axbridge Pageant Features
      • Axbridge Reviews
      • Book Club
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    • Beautiful Brides
      • Editing Beautiful Brides Magazine
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        • 2015 08 August Issue 1
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        • 2022 11 November
        • 2023 01 January Issue 12
        • Rapscallion Magazine 13 May 2023
    • Strawberry Line Times
      • Cheddar Reservoir
      • Features
        • 1981 floods
        • Age of the train is returning
        • Along the line in 1899
        • Banwell bombed
        • Beaching rail closures
        • Birnbeck Pier: a brief history
        • Blue remembered hills
        • Bridgwater Carnival numbers
        • Bridgwater Railway Hotel
        • Bridgwater’s old pubs
        • Bristol’s own Bluebell girl
        • Building Cheddar reservoir in the 1930s
        • Burnham footballers
        • Coffee on the line
        • Fish and Chips
        • Highbridge at war
        • Highbridge Caravans
        • How far can the Strawberry Line go?
        • How to make the perfect cuppa
        • Jilted bride
        • Looking Back in Pictures
        • Miss Emily Fazerkerley
        • Old Highbridge recalled
        • Quantock memories
        • Railway workers of Cheddar
        • Renegades Carnival Club
        • Somerset’s Italian POWs
        • The Big Freeze
        • Then and Now
        • Transforming the line
        • Walk around the Res
      • News
      • Reviews
        • Reviews Music
        • REVIEWS: Books
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        • REVIEWS: Cinema
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      • Confessions Dying for a pee
      • Confessions of a crash victim
      • Confessions of an art student
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      • Exposed: Holiday hell
      • Exposed: Salt Path
      • Litter picking in the rain
      • Look Back: Bridgwater’s Cornhill
      • Thoughts on a perfect cuppa
      • Thoughts on a white Aborigine
      • Thoughts on Boris gone wrong
      • Thoughts on Cheddar Woman
      • Thoughts on Dodgy keepers
      • Thoughts on Litter Picking
      • Thoughts on school dinners
      • Thoughts on The Bag Lady
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