A quiet week on the Mystery Photograph answers – perhaps you were all enjoying your summer holidays. It was a difficult one though – hopefully this one opposite is a little easier.

Well done to Eric Brain, Jeff Parsons, J. Baker and Andrew Thayer, who have all been in touch with the correct answer: it was Bromley Colliery, the rope-hauled railway to Pensford. A big thank you to Radstock Museum for their continued support of this feature.

Reader Eric Brain tells us: “At last, a mystery picture I can identify; this picture was taken along the tram line linking Bromley colliery with Pensford Pit.

“On leaving school, my late father worked at Bromley until the general strike in the mid to late twenties. He later went into road haulage.

“Living in Featherbed Lane, Clutton, I recall the miners returning home through the lane after their shift, stopping to scrape out the spent carbide from their acetylene lights which did double-duty in the darkness of the pit, as well as on their bicycles. My grandfather explained all this to me when, as a small boy, I was intrigued by the little piles of white dust in the lane. Sadly the lane is no longer passable, not even easily by bicycle!

“One could stand under the narrow low bridge in the lane from Stanton Wick to

Stanton Drew and ‘feel’ the line of trucks rumbling overhead – those were the days!”

This week’s Mystery Photograph was provided by a reader – if you think you know where it was taken, what it is and would like a mention, please email: contactus

@mnrjournal.co.uk before 5pm on Monday.

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5 pm on Saturdays.