Uh oh . . . some controversy over one of our earlier Mystery Photographs that we thought was the Somerset Wagon, Chilcompton.

Reader, Jonathan Griffin, says: “I feel many Chilcomptonians will no doubt take issue with you on the location, which is definitely NOT the Railway/Sword and Castle/Somerset Wagon.

“The estimate of the photo being from the 1950s is a bit wide of the mark, the ‘E’ suffix on the registration plate of the Mancunian coach makes it early 1967 at the earliest, although Martin Horler is spot on with his comment that Flowers was a Midland brewery.

“Flowers was originally established in Stratford upon Avon, which is where I started my Google maps search. It didn’t take me long to come across the ‘Pen and Parchment’, Bridge Foot, Stratford which although not in possession of the tall chimney in the front of the building any more, ticks all the other boxes, even down to the chimney pots of an adjacent building poking above the roofline.

“As for last week’s photo I’m sure it’s much closer to home, but I can’t for the life of me place it. Funny that...”

Last week’s photograph came courtesy of fellow reader, Jeff Parsons, of Clutton Methodist Church, Bendal’s Bridge, Clutton. Well done to Ellen Salmon, Delphine Watts, Mary Barnett, Ian Willcox, Dawn Rogers, Andrew Chappell, Mike Ford and Eric Brain, who says: “The tall prominent building on the right is ‘The Chapel under the Tree’. At the time the photo was taken, it was under the benefice of the Earl of Warwick. It became the Clutton Scout headquarters in the 1920s/30s, with the Rector’s son, Charles Mansfield, as Scoutmaster, and was demolished after WWII.

“The stone from the chapel can still be seen today; it was used as facing stone for the two bungalows built on the site. The cottages were farm labourers’ cottages and were demolished soon after the first sale of the Warwick estate in 1920. The cottages in the far distance were demolished in the early 50s and the site is now the church car park.”

“The photo is one of a locally well-known series taken early in the 20th Century by Miss Letty Collinson, a pioneer photographer whose biography can be seen in Five Arches, issue 93, Spring 2019, the journal of the Radstock Museum Society.”

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