CAN you guess where this week’s Mystery Photograph was taken?

Each week, the Journal invites readers to test their knowledge by identifying a historic location from days gone by, and last week we featured a picture supplied by Radstock Museum.

Just one entry reached us for last week’s photograph, and Martin Horler obviously didn’t think the photography was that much of a mystery. He emailed us and said: “This week’s photo is not such a mystery. It’s one of the lodges to Ammerdown Park at Terry Hill crossroads. There’s nothing left of it now; I believe at one time it was the coachman’s cottage.”

Absolutely correct Martin. The photograph does show Ammerdown Lodge, in Kilmersdon according to this postcard from around 1890.

Ammerdown Park is situated east of Kilmersdon, to the south-east of the B3139 road and to the west of the A362 road. Public roads surround the 180 hectare site of the park, with the Terry Hill crossroads entrance making up one of many different routes into the park.

The land which formed the nucleus of the park was acquired by Thomas Samuel Jolliffe in 1778 through his marriage to Anne Twyford, daughter and heiress of Rev Robert Twyford of Kilmersdon. A serving MP, Jolliffe had a villa constructed on the land to a design commissioned from British architect James Wyatt.

By 1890 the estate had passed to a cousin, Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe Bt, MP; the third Lord Hylton inherited the estate around 1899, the time of this photograph.

Well done to all our readers who guessed correctly at home.

Our thanks again go to Radstock Museum for the latest supply of Mystery Photographs. They have sent in this week’s too. If you know where it is, then let us know.

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