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

Each week, the Journal invites readers to identify a historic location from days gone by.

Last week we decided to add a lovely image of boys fishing submitted by Peter Strawbridge.

And yet again, we think it may have caught a few people out. We had however receive two guesses via our Facebook post including Priddy Pool and Woodborough.

Mary Lewis is the only correct guess this week. It was indeed a lovely day’s fishing at Priddy Pool, located high up in the Mendip Hills National Landscape, for a handful of boys taken some time in the 1960s.

An online entry by Rick Johansen in 2022 describes a summer’s day fishing at Priddy Pools.

He wrote: “I would then spend an inordinate amount of time ‘catching’ small fish. Later, we would take them home, with the bucket swishing around in the passenger footwell until we arrived home. I would then transfer the fish into an old washing up bowl where, within days, they would all die…”

On visiting Priddy Pool many years later, he lamented the absence of any more small fish in the pools, wondering if his ill-fated fishing expeditions had caused their demise. He wrote: “Perhaps it was the time of the season, I don’t know, or maybe my efforts in the late 1960s were in fact over-fishing and I had killed them all off? I doubt that this was the case. One day, I might ask an expert.”

Find Rick’s entry online at: www.eclecticblue.org.uk/on-priddy-pond

This week we return to a photograph from Radstock Museum; our thanks go to them. Let’s see how we get on. If you know where this lovely image was taken, then drop us a line via email to: [email protected]