Last week’s picture had lots of you guessing (thank you to everyone who has been in touch). We were in Midsomer Norton at R. Welch & Co Grocer and Drapers opposite the Town Hall, c1910.

Well done to Paul Hancock, Simon Chard, Keith Gillard, Janet

Cheasley, Maureen Young, Gilmour Jones, Caroline Higgins, Simon Ball, Frankie Ford, Colin Button, Christine Hartley, Don Deverill, Pam Dukes, Roger Clark, the Leaver Family, Julie Bristow,Jeff Parsons, Allan Curtis, Norma Attwood, Hugh Weeks Roy Barnes and Val Rogers.

Reader Keith Gillard says: “I remember it very well. I was at a local school nearby and remember seeing the fire brigade,” (there was a fire in the 1950s that destroyed the building).

This week’s photograph was provided by a reader – if you know where it was taken and would like a mention, contact us at The Journal, email: contactus

@mnrjournal.co.uk

Radstock Museum has reopened for three days a week (Wednesday and Sunday 2 pm – 5 pm and Saturdays 11 am – 5 pm). The museum shop will be open but the tea room remains closed until the week commencing 5th July, when normal days and opening hours will

resume.

There will be an admission holiday for three months with free entry for all visitors during June, July and August – any annual tickets disrupted due to lockdowns and closure will be valid from September and will have a new expiry date added to them.

We also have an update on the recent band photograph that the Museum were looking for information on. It was taken of the Paulton Brotherhood Band, which formed in 1909. Each member bought their own instrument and a year after meeting, the band performed its first concert.

Within four years they won a National Championship competition at the Crystal Palace. The conductor was Charlie Williams and a silver mounted sycamore baton, which was presented to him in 1913 was passed from member to surviving member.

The membership was reduced to eight during World War I, but all of the band’s members returned safely, later reforming as The Paulton Silver Band. At that time, there were 20,000 bands in the country and they were one of the very best!