I've come here from the BoS website. As I'm not registered there to add comments on the forums I just wanted to add a couple of things about Burnham and Highbridge currently being discussed in the 'Burnham pubs of past' thread. There was another watering hole along the Berrow Road, where Automania is now (or next to it, maybe) called The Richmond Hotel. It was open to non-residents. There's mention of the Co-op in Burnham. There was a large Co-op store which sold clothes, shoes, household items, appliances and furniture, etc. and that is indeed now Larkin's. There was, at one time, also a small Co-op grocery store which became The Premier Fish Bar and is now La Vela. I know this because my dad's friend, Reg Coggins, was manager. I don't know about a Co-op in the High Street where Peacock's ended up but somewhere along there was the Labour Exchange. Somewhere opposite The Railway Inn there was a linen shop. It was so tiny that even one customer made it crowded. I read the memories of Highbridge and recall the places - but no one has included 'Bug Alley' and the few two-up-two-down cottages which stood there - it was near to/next to what became a massage parlour. There were rough steps at the end of the pathway from which one of our playground haunts was accessed - the Willet's warehouse, with it's pulley shaft on which we risked life and limb. From Tylers (now demolished) there was access to large underground tunnels.
Somerset Vaults in Newtown ('Top House', cider den)
I've come here from the BoS website. As I'm not registered there to add comments on the forums I just wanted to add a couple of things about Burnham and Highbridge currently being discussed in the 'Burnham pubs of past' thread.
There was another watering hole along the Berrow Road, where Automania is now (or next to it, maybe) called The Richmond Hotel. It was open to non-residents.
There's mention of the Co-op in Burnham. There was a large Co-op store which sold clothes, shoes, household items, appliances and furniture, etc. and that is indeed now Larkin's. There was, at one time, also a small Co-op grocery store which became The Premier Fish Bar and is now La Vela. I know this because my dad's friend, Reg Coggins, was manager. I don't know about a Co-op in the High Street where Peacock's ended up but somewhere along there was the Labour Exchange.
Somewhere opposite The Railway Inn there was a linen shop. It was so tiny that even one customer made it crowded.
I read the memories of Highbridge and recall the places - but no one has included 'Bug Alley' and the few two-up-two-down cottages which stood there - it was near to/next to what became a massage parlour. There were rough steps at the end of the pathway from which one of our playground haunts was accessed - the Willet's warehouse, with it's pulley shaft on which we risked life and limb.
From Tylers (now demolished) there was access to large underground tunnels.
@@misc.endeavours8343 Thanks for the info.