Skip to content
  • Thu. Jan 22nd, 2026
Harry Mottram

Harry Mottram

Words + Images + Performances

  • Home
  • About Harry
  • Axbridge Diary
  • Publications
    • Agenda West
    • Axbridge News
      • 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 Pageant
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant 2029
        • Axbridge Pageant archive
        • Axbridge Pageant Features
      • Axbridge Reviews
        • Reviews
      • Book Club
      • Building Cheddar Reservoir
      • Comment
      • Look Back
      • News
      • Progressive Supper
      • x Sort out
    • Bath Voice
      • Bath Voice Features
      • Bath Voice News
      • Bath Voice Theatre Reviews
      • Bath Voice What’s On
      • Film Reviews
      • Places Reviewed
      • Theatre Reviews
    • Beautiful Brides
      • Editing Beautiful Brides Magazine
    • Checkaco Consumer News
    • Children’s Theatre
      • Features
      • Interviews
      • REVIEWS: Books
      • REVIEWS: Films
      • REVIEWS: Theatre
      • The Magazine
      • Theatre Reviews
      • Videos
    • ICSM Business News
    • Illustrations
    • Midlife to Midwife
    • Rapscallion Magazine
      • Features
      • Opinion
      • Reviews
        • Book Reviews
        • Books
        • Cinema
        • Play Reviews
        • Radio
        • Theatre
        • TV
      • The Magazine
        • 2015 08 August Issue 1
        • 2015 09 September Issue 2
        • 2015 10 October Issue 3
        • 2015 11 November Issue 4
        • 2016 07 July Issue 05
        • 2017 01 January
        • 2020 12 Rapscallion Magazine December
        • 2021 11 November Rapscallion
        • 2022 07 Rapscallion
        • 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
        • REVIEWS: Books – Non Fiction
        • REVIEWS: Cinema
        • REVIEWS: food and drink
        • REVIEWS: Poetry
        • REVIEWS: talking books
        • REVIEWS: Theatre
        • REVIEWS: Video
      • The Magazine
      • Videos
    • Various
      • Freelance
        • Design and copywriting
        • Features
        • News
        • Photography
        • Public Relations
        • Videos
  • Stretchmark Theatre
    • Current productions
  • The Correspondent
    • Features
      • Confession: I was deported from Rome
      • Confession: My Night with Sasha
      • Confessions Dying for a pee
      • Confessions of an art student
      • Confessions of Beautiful Brides
      • 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
      • Thoughts on The Spiv
      • Unreliable Memories of Footballing nuns
      • Unreliable Memories of Maggie Smith
      • Unreliable memories: a drunk Goldilocks
      • Unreliable Memories: Mum on TV
      • Unreliable memories: Tenby Part 1
      • Unreliable Postcard: Milan Part 1
      • Unreliable Postcard: Milan Part 2
      • Unreliable postcard: Rome tourists
      • Unreliable Postcard: Stonehenge
      • Unreliable Postcards: poo on a mountain
    • News
    • Reviews: Books
    • Reviews: Theatre
    • The Magazine
Top Tags
  • harry mottram
  • childrens theatre magazine
  • axbridge
  • rapscallion magazine
  • www.harrymottram.co.uk
  • somerset
  • bristol

Latest Post

Axbridge News: the letters of a female Georgian educationalist (who famously clashed with Axbridge’s drunken Reverend Gould in the town’s community play) are published online The Correspondent – Feature: Unreliable Memories of Footballing nuns Axbridge News: Axe Vale Arts Centre’s programme of events; news update on the Oakhouse; and the Orchard Road development is back on; plus the Diary of Events in Axbridge The Correspondent. Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliantly clear and simple prose brings to life artificial humanoid Klara in a futuristic world of genetically enhanced children Bath Voice Opinion: Looking back to 2025 and looking forward in 2026
Axbridge News

Axbridge News: the letters of a female Georgian educationalist (who famously clashed with Axbridge’s drunken Reverend Gould in the town’s community play) are published online

Jan 19, 2026 harrymottram
The Correspondent

The Correspondent – Feature: Unreliable Memories of Footballing nuns

Jan 15, 2026 harrymottram
Axbridge News

Axbridge News: Axe Vale Arts Centre’s programme of events; news update on the Oakhouse; and the Orchard Road development is back on; plus the Diary of Events in Axbridge

Jan 14, 2026 harrymottram
The Correspondent

The Correspondent. Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliantly clear and simple prose brings to life artificial humanoid Klara in a futuristic world of genetically enhanced children

Jan 9, 2026 harrymottram
Bath Voice Newspaper

Bath Voice Opinion: Looking back to 2025 and looking forward in 2026

Jan 9, 2026 harrymottram
  • Latest
  • Popular
  • Trending
  • Axbridge News: the letters of a female Georgian educationalist (who famously clashed with Axbridge’s drunken Reverend Gould in the town’s community play) are published online
    Axbridge News
    Axbridge News: the letters of a female Georgian educationalist (who famously clashed with Axbridge’s drunken Reverend Gould in the town’s community play) are published online
  • The Correspondent – Feature: Unreliable Memories of Footballing nuns
    The Correspondent
    The Correspondent – Feature: Unreliable Memories of Footballing nuns
  • Axbridge News: Axe Vale Arts Centre’s programme of events; news update on the Oakhouse; and the Orchard Road development is back on; plus the Diary of Events in Axbridge
    Axbridge News
    Axbridge News: Axe Vale Arts Centre’s programme of events; news update on the Oakhouse; and the Orchard Road development is back on; plus the Diary of Events in Axbridge
  • The Correspondent. Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliantly clear and simple prose brings to life artificial humanoid Klara in a futuristic world of genetically enhanced children
    The Correspondent
    The Correspondent. Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliantly clear and simple prose brings to life artificial humanoid Klara in a futuristic world of genetically enhanced children
  • Axbridge News: the letters of a female Georgian educationalist (who famously clashed with Axbridge’s drunken Reverend Gould in the town’s community play) are published online
    Axbridge News
    Axbridge News: the letters of a female Georgian educationalist (who famously clashed with Axbridge’s drunken Reverend Gould in the town’s community play) are published online
  • Strawberry Line Times FEATURE Clevedon’s shops; thriving Yatton; quaint Axbridge – the Victorian Guide to the Strawberry Line
    Uncategorized
    Strawberry Line Times FEATURE Clevedon’s shops; thriving Yatton; quaint Axbridge – the Victorian Guide to the Strawberry Line
  • Rapscallion Magazine  TRAVEL When in Rome… follow your leader
    Uncategorized
    Rapscallion Magazine TRAVEL When in Rome… follow your leader
  • Uncategorized
    Strawberry Line Times FEATURE Powerful Georgian women with a Churchill connection
  • Axbridge News: the letters of a female Georgian educationalist (who famously clashed with Axbridge’s drunken Reverend Gould in the town’s community play) are published online
    Axbridge News
    Axbridge News: the letters of a female Georgian educationalist (who famously clashed with Axbridge’s drunken Reverend Gould in the town’s community play) are published online
  • The Correspondent – Feature: Unreliable Memories of Footballing nuns
    The Correspondent
    The Correspondent – Feature: Unreliable Memories of Footballing nuns
  • Axbridge News: Axe Vale Arts Centre’s programme of events; news update on the Oakhouse; and the Orchard Road development is back on; plus the Diary of Events in Axbridge
    Axbridge News
    Axbridge News: Axe Vale Arts Centre’s programme of events; news update on the Oakhouse; and the Orchard Road development is back on; plus the Diary of Events in Axbridge
  • The Correspondent. Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliantly clear and simple prose brings to life artificial humanoid Klara in a futuristic world of genetically enhanced children
    The Correspondent
    The Correspondent. Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliantly clear and simple prose brings to life artificial humanoid Klara in a futuristic world of genetically enhanced children
Cheddar Reservoir at dawn
Harry Mottram
My home town of Seaton when I was a teenager in the 1930s

The drama: Dodgy Keeper

Axbridge Square in winter
Journalist
Axbridge Pageant
Bath Voice Newspaper
Local History
Uncategorized

PHOTOGRAPHY: Oh dear… we really are looking a bit bedraggled this morning

May 12, 2016 harrymottram

I snapped this just fallen out a hedge sheep this morning at Cheddar Reservoir. I know how it feels! Follow…

Uncategorized

FILM: Behind the Scenes at Penguin Night

May 11, 2016 harrymottram

This film is a short snapshot of behind the scenes of the making of Penguin Night – a sitcom to…

Uncategorized

NEWS: Harry Mottram is now a freelance feature writer and is available for work

May 9, 2016 harrymottram

Features on all subjects – check the sections on the website under Feature Writer – but at the moment I’m…

Uncategorized

PHOTOGRAPHY: wonders of a May morning at first light

May 8, 2016 harrymottram

There’s nothing quite as wonderful as an early stroll in the dawn light of a May morning. More images at…

Uncategorized

Strawberry Line Times NEWS: End of the Voices of Axbridge oral history programme

May 8, 2016 harrymottram

Maggie Turr has wrapped up the oral history programme in the town that began with Harry Mottram around a decade…

Uncategorized

PHOTOGRAPHY: Cheddar Reservoir views this morning

May 8, 2016 harrymottram

More at www.harrymottramphotography.co.uk

Uncategorized

RAPSCALLION DIARY: Events for May

Apr 29, 2016 harrymottram

Leaping into spring with a dash down a hill after a cheese or a plunge into the River Cherwell at…

Uncategorized

NEW CARTOON: how managers quickly demotivate staff so they give up and quit

Apr 29, 2016 harrymottram

I draw a monthly cartoon for Link Publishing’s Print Monthly Magazine based in Kingswood, Bristol. The magazine is the leading…

Uncategorized

NEW CARTOON: the rise in dubious legal actions against sign-makers

Apr 29, 2016 harrymottram

New cartoon for SignLink magazine based on an editorial about the sign industry. New commissions always welcome via email on…

Uncategorized

Rapscallion Diary: Theatre for April and May

Apr 28, 2016 harrymottram

Going out: Madame Bovary, Holly Golightly and Helena prepare for a night out but in Blavatsky’s Tower, Ingrid is staying…

Posts pagination

1 … 154 155 156 … 166

You missed

Axbridge News

Axbridge News: the letters of a female Georgian educationalist (who famously clashed with Axbridge’s drunken Reverend Gould in the town’s community play) are published online

Jan 19, 2026 harrymottram
The Correspondent

The Correspondent – Feature: Unreliable Memories of Footballing nuns

Jan 15, 2026 harrymottram
Axbridge News

Axbridge News: Axe Vale Arts Centre’s programme of events; news update on the Oakhouse; and the Orchard Road development is back on; plus the Diary of Events in Axbridge

Jan 14, 2026 harrymottram
The Correspondent

The Correspondent. Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliantly clear and simple prose brings to life artificial humanoid Klara in a futuristic world of genetically enhanced children

Jan 9, 2026 harrymottram
Harry Mottram

Harry Mottram

Words + Images + Performances

Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Newsup by Themeansar.

  • Home
  • About Harry
  • Axbridge Diary
  • Publications
    • Agenda West
    • Axbridge News
      • 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 Pageant
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant 2029
        • Axbridge Pageant archive
        • Axbridge Pageant Features
      • Axbridge Reviews
        • Reviews
      • Book Club
      • Building Cheddar Reservoir
      • Comment
      • Look Back
      • News
      • Progressive Supper
      • x Sort out
    • Bath Voice
      • Bath Voice Features
      • Bath Voice News
      • Bath Voice Theatre Reviews
      • Bath Voice What’s On
      • Film Reviews
      • Places Reviewed
      • Theatre Reviews
    • Beautiful Brides
      • Editing Beautiful Brides Magazine
    • Checkaco Consumer News
    • Children’s Theatre
      • Features
      • Interviews
      • REVIEWS: Books
      • REVIEWS: Films
      • REVIEWS: Theatre
      • The Magazine
      • Theatre Reviews
      • Videos
    • ICSM Business News
    • Illustrations
    • Midlife to Midwife
    • Rapscallion Magazine
      • Features
      • Opinion
      • Reviews
        • Book Reviews
        • Books
        • Cinema
        • Play Reviews
        • Radio
        • Theatre
        • TV
      • The Magazine
        • 2015 08 August Issue 1
        • 2015 09 September Issue 2
        • 2015 10 October Issue 3
        • 2015 11 November Issue 4
        • 2016 07 July Issue 05
        • 2017 01 January
        • 2020 12 Rapscallion Magazine December
        • 2021 11 November Rapscallion
        • 2022 07 Rapscallion
        • 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
        • REVIEWS: Books – Non Fiction
        • REVIEWS: Cinema
        • REVIEWS: food and drink
        • REVIEWS: Poetry
        • REVIEWS: talking books
        • REVIEWS: Theatre
        • REVIEWS: Video
      • The Magazine
      • Videos
    • Various
      • Freelance
        • Design and copywriting
        • Features
        • News
        • Photography
        • Public Relations
        • Videos
  • Stretchmark Theatre
    • Current productions
  • The Correspondent
    • Features
      • Confession: I was deported from Rome
      • Confession: My Night with Sasha
      • Confessions Dying for a pee
      • Confessions of an art student
      • Confessions of Beautiful Brides
      • 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
      • Thoughts on The Spiv
      • Unreliable Memories of Footballing nuns
      • Unreliable Memories of Maggie Smith
      • Unreliable memories: a drunk Goldilocks
      • Unreliable Memories: Mum on TV
      • Unreliable memories: Tenby Part 1
      • Unreliable Postcard: Milan Part 1
      • Unreliable Postcard: Milan Part 2
      • Unreliable postcard: Rome tourists
      • Unreliable Postcard: Stonehenge
      • Unreliable Postcards: poo on a mountain
    • News
    • Reviews: Books
    • Reviews: Theatre
    • The Magazine
 

Loading Comments...
 

You must be logged in to post a comment.