HeyJaredCllr Brian Smedley
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It's Black History Month as Bridgwater remembers - Column (opens the original)
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If you walk down Bridgwater’s George Street today you won’t see the George Hotel after which it was named as it’s gone. Nor will you see, in the little service yard next door, the old 19th Century Public Rooms. In Victorian Britain most towns had Public Rooms where the citizens could pile into and discuss the burning issues of the day. On August 31, 1846, you might well have been one of the 400 Bridgwater people who packed into these hot and steamy rooms on a hot and steamy day to hear one of th
Brian Smedley column: A brief history of the Bridgwater Tapestry (opens the original)
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Because nothing ever happens in Bridgwater, I couldn’t decide what to do for the best, writes Cllr Brian Smedley. Should I go to the Fairfield and see the Outdoor Cinema, which was showing films chosen by the public on a big screen, or should I go to the Bridgwater Tapestry unveiling in St Mary’s Church, depicting 2,000 years of Bridgwater history? No, I opted for the third big event of National Heritage Week in our town, ex-postman Dave Chapple’s walking tour of Bridgwater’s industrial and mari
Brian Smedley: Meet the Bridgwater campaigner urging people not to talk it down (opens the original)
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Forty years ago, I wrote the music for a play called The Kings Justice, writes Cllr Brian Smedley. The script was written by local author Charles Mander, and it was about the Battle of Sedgemoor. We toured it from Lyme Regis to Chard to Frome to London. More than Monmouth himself actually did. One of the chorus players was a very young Liz Browne. This year she’s the star of a new film about Bridgwater Brick by Brick' - she’s a parish councillor, a wildlife and conservation campaigner, and the k
Column: Brian Smedley on Bridgwater Town Council's new clerk and CEO (opens the original)
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When you’ve been the branch manager for banks on the islands of Alderney and Sark, Bridgwater probably seems like Las Vegas to you, writes Cllr Brian Smedley. But no, in CB language Vegas is Weston-super-Mare. A name which makes no sense these days (we had a Cellophane factory). But for Sally Jones, Bridgwater’s newly appointed town clerk and chief executive officer, our town was attractive and she loves the place. Sally’s background in finance and her people-first philosophy has brought with it
Brian Smedley column: The remarkable story of Bridgwater's West Gate (opens the original)
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Medieval Bridgwater was a walled town with four gates, writes Cllr Brian Smedley. The South Gate (by Blake chip shop) was the main gate. The North Gate (end of Angel Crescent) was the tradesman’s entrance. The East Gate (by Cobblestones) was the one a fairground elephant got stuck under and the West Gate - next to Bar Brunel - was the party gate. And that’s the one we’re going to look at today. Having a sense of history and where things actually happened to people is important. Walk past Homecas
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