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        • 2020 12 Rapscallion Magazine December
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        • Rapscallion Magazine 13 May 2023
    • Strawberry Line Times
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        • 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
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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
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      • 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
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      • Unreliable postcard: Rome tourists
      • Unreliable Postcard: Stonehenge
      • Unreliable Postcards: poo on a mountain
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THEATRE REVIEW: Music and colour to the fore in ACT’s Twelfth Night

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Twelfth Night, Axbridge Town Hall. November 21, 2015 This was a softer and gentler Twelfth Night with its haunting music,…

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Rapscallion Magazine: October’s issue is now online

Nov 4, 2015 harrymottram

Pirates, reviews and an eccentric Victorian lady who liked men in uniform. Rapscallion’s October issue is now online at http://www.harrymottram.co.uk/?page_id=1436

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VIDEO Promotion for Illyria in Axbridge – documentary of ACT’s Twelfth Night

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Rapscallion Magazine: September’s issue is now online

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Tea, bag ladies and reviews. To see the September issue of the magazine go to the page http://www.harrymottram.co.uk/?page_id=1425

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  • Home
  • About Harry
  • Publications
    • Agenda West
    • Axbridge
      • Axbridge Diary
      • 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
      • Building Cheddar Reservoir
      • Look Back
      • Progressive Supper
    • 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
      • x Sort out
  • 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
    • Reviews: Books
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