The wonderful thing we have discovered about this feature, is the discussion it provokes amongst you all, and the memories that are shared as a result. It is fabulous – thank you to everyone for engaging with it!
We are going to make them a little harder in the run-up to Christmas, so see if you can guess where we are this week...
Well done to Simon Chard, Jeff Parsons, Graham Honeybun, Paul Hancock, Inchy Howard and Gavin Kerton, Terry Veale, John Seal, Gilmour Jones, Ivor Davis, Simon Ball, Callum Barrett, Jamie Ford, Karol Kwiatkowski, Jonathan Griffin, Elaine Bowen, Terry and Caroline Wynne MBE, Hannah Selway, Les Box, Andy Matthews, Dave Blackford, Ken Cottle, Allan Curtis, Terry Reakes, Pauline Fogden, Holly Stock, Janet Gilham, Beth Selway, Andrea Massey, Shirley Steel BEM and Carroll Franklin, who all guessed correctly!
Shirley Steel tells us: “Last week’s photograph would have been taken from the railway, which existed then. The main buildings are originally the Welton Brewery, then Standard Cheque Book Company, then the Standard Works, Welton Printing Works, then Welton Bibby and Baron in succession.
“There was a carpenter’s works in the far left hand of the main works, and my father worked there for some time. He was building, in the 30s, a huge basket to seat some twenty ladies that worked in the factory, for the Carnival. They were dressed as flowers, with petals around their faces!”
Thanks also to local artist, Roger Jones, who said: “I was so pleased to see this old photo looking from old Welton Station over the top of the thatched cottages up towards Stones Cross.
“I have never seen this photo before, but I have seen others looking the other way, towards the station.
“Wanting to paint a picture of ‘Old Welton,’ Midsomer Norton Mayor, Paul Myers, kindly let me have an old, very faded image showing the station and cottages. Then a friend, Tony Day, showed me a photo of the cottages that his father (Fred) had taken.
“This helped me create the painting (below) a couple of years ago. I still don’t know the date when the cottages were taken down, but I know the station burned down in 1959. Thanks again for making my day!”
So, if you think you can guess this week’s entry, above, email: [email protected] with your answer, and even a photograph of what the scene looks like today, or send it to us via Facebook: @MNRJournal. Answer in next week’s Journal.
This week’s photograph is courtesy of Radstock Museum, who are helping us to keep the feature running, alongside all of your wonderful readers’ pictures. Keep them coming!
All visitors to Radstock Museum can sit and browse through over eight hundred old, local photographs on the public access computers. Glossy 7x5 prints of the photos can be bought, subject to copyright. Museum tickets are annual: www.radstockmuseum.co.uk






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