Newsletter contents since 1999 (issues 90–126)
The name of the writer, if shown, appears immediately after the title of the article, in green italics.
The notation ”99.3• indicates newsletter 99, page 3.
|| History 1977–1988 || History 1989–2001 ||
February 1999 90
Chairman’s notes 90.1
A summary of the autumn lectures (& time for a new pun) 90.2
—St Patrick’s Somerset birthplace
—Mike Mathias and the Tor
—Stanton Drew circles and the north Somerset coast
25 years in the chair 90.4
1000 trees for Tree Week Ian Rands 90.3
The 1998 AGM: Expand to 10 miles? Trees in Newtown area? 90.1
Lecture dates for winter (Mondays at 7:30pm) 90.1
Hartlake cycle bridge is re-cycled Jim Nagel 90.3
April 1999 91
Chairman’s notes 91.1
A summary of the spring lectures 91.2
Last lectures—dates for the diary both at 7:30pm 91.2
Trees report for winter 1998–99 Ian Rands 91.3
Mendip District Environment Forum Ian Rands 91.3
Newtown centenary JN 91.1
Walks Martin Blake 91.3
By bike to the Avalon Marshes: wetlands for wildlife 91.4
Pedal through the peat moors Matt Crisp 91.1
Bawdrip bike link instantly popular 91.3
July–August 1999 92
Chairman’s notes 92.1
Victoria History becomes extra-complicated at Glastonbury Sue Rands 92.2
Glastonbury Transport Strategy 92.4
Next lecture series—dates for the diary 92.2
Restoration work at St John’s Church JRB 92.1
Summer job: tree maintenance Ian Rands 92.3
Mendip weekend 92.1
One supermarket or another Stephanie Morland 92.3
Mendip Environment Forum Ian Rands 92.3
Red bricks start a second century JN 92.1
Memories of childhood in Somers Square David Orchard 92.3
October 1999 93
Chairman’s notes 93.1
1864–1999 93.4
Winter lecture series—dates for the diary 93.2
Glastonbury in Bloom 1999 Jan Morland 93.1
1999 AGM : Wednesday, October 20 93.1
7:30pm, St Mary’s hall : Do come 93.1
Repairing your house 93.3
Antiquarian Society and the new library 93.2
Traffic proposals get broad approval from public survey Jim Nagel 93.3
2000AD February 94
Chairman’s notes 94.1
Coombe House: then and now ... 94.4
Talks and slides for winter evenings 94.2
Continental conservation Ian Rands 94.3
The AGM >> from p.1 94.3
Mendip mines were main source of lead in Roman empire JB 94.3
Same tree radius and a new secretary 94.1
Tor entrances, footpaths and pointing to be tackled Jan Morland 94.2
Wick Farm wins Bellamy silver for conservation 94.4
2000AD April–May 95
Chairman’s notes 95.1
Dates for walks—and the garden 95.2
The winter lectures: cathedral and abbey, railways and dinosaurs 95.2
The High Street 60 years ago Eric King (1 of 4) 95.4
The Dod Lane kissing gate Ian Rands 95.1
Tribute to Sheena Rees John Brunsdon 95.3
Big plan to digitize Somerset’s past Jim Nagel 95.1
In brief 95.3
2000AD July–August 96
Chairman’s notes 96.1
Dates for walks—and the garden 96.2
Our garage Derek Hankins 96.2
The High Street 60 years ago Eric King (2 of 4) 96.4
Tree exhibit at Bath&West Show Ian Rands 96.3
Restoring Melrose 96.2
Longest ride on the longest day 96.1
Loxley Wood purchased for public 96.3
Evening walk: alternative Glastonbury JB 96.3
2000AD October 97
Chairman’s notes 97.1
Talks and a walk for autumn and winter 97.2
The High Street 60 years ago Eric King (3 of 4) 97.4
Orchards in the 18th and 19th centuries 97.2
Trench reveals a previously forgotten Abbey chapel Warwick Rodwell 97.3
Gordon Browning 97.1
26,395 trees Ian Rands 97.2
AGM 2000 97.1
Paint the town pink—or blue—or green—or even mauve 97.4
Glastonbury in Bloom: three times in five years Alan Gloak 97.1
2001AD January–February 98
Chairman’s notes 98.1
Works at Glastonbury Abbey 98.4
A twin for our Abbey? Peter Speke 98.4
Glastonbury’s geological history Adrian Pearse 98.2
English Nature—and butterflies—reward Geoff Brunt’s dedication 98.3
AGM 2000: Ancient and modern in Glastonbury’s new library 98.1
27,000th tree planted in December Ian Rands 98.2
Friend of the Glastonbury romancer 98.2
Reminiscences 98.3
Raising £250,000 for the Tor 98.3
Continental conservation: Caen Ian Rands 98.4
2001 May–June 99
Chairman’s notes 99.1
The High Street 60 years ago Eric King (4 of 4) 99.4
Looking after orchards Ian Rands 99.3
Tannery ruins at last in public hands JN 99.1
Morland milestone 99.2
Dates for summer evenings 99.2
Book tells colourful story of our 19th-century canal JB 99.2
A taste of cider’s history Adrian Pearse 99.2
Pilgrim monk returns to Abbey entrance as a sculpture 99.3
2001 August–September (6 pages) 100
Chairman’s notes 100.1
1854: triumphant opening of the Somerset Central Railway 100.4
Dates for the diary 100.2
Trees — remembering Ian Rands 100.3
Chairman’s notes >> continued from page 1 100.2
New footpath coordinator 100.2
School display needs help 100.2
A fine kettle of fish 100.2
Trees walk October 21 100.3
Farewell to Rileys and the vicarage JB, JN 100.1
Dennis and Ena Allen retire 100.1
History and list of the society’s achievements 1971–1988 ... reprinted from newsletter 50 (dated 1988) 100.5
... and a summary of the last 50 newsletters 100.6
2001 November 101
Chairman’s notes 101.1
A trip to the Palace John Brunsdon MBE 101.4
Two Fridays, one Tuesday for diaries 101.2
Chairman’s notes 101.1
Wheelchair-friendly bridge planned for Abbey ruins JB 101.3
Care for trees wins grant from Community Chest 101.1
Walk for Woodland 101.1
AGM 101.1
Two members who will be missed 101.2
Lunch at Middle Wick Farm Ian Rands 101.2
National Trust warden retires JB 101.4
Exhibits spur groups to go for grants Dennis Allen 101.3
Those bloomin’ winners Alan Gloak 101.2
Conservation counterpart Jim Nagel 101.4
2002 January 102
Death of Cecil Hamilton-Miller 102.2
Our speakers — do come and hear them 102.2
Chairman’s report to AGM 2001 John Brunsdon 102.1
Market Place “redecoration” 102.1
A tale of twins in the forest Ian Rands 102.3
Tor fund gets boost 102.2
A walk on frozen Splotts Moor John Brunsdon 102.2
Annual meeting represents 165 members 102.1
Saplings from Beechbarrow thrive at Sunnyside Cathie and Alardus van den Bosch 102.3
The role of Mendip’s conservation team 102.2
Continental conservation: Bonaparte’s battlesites Major Ian Rands 102.4
Victorian department store gutted; police suspect arson Jim Nagel 102.4
Rare black poplars set free to grow JB, JN 102.3
2002 April 103
Chairman’s notes 103.1
Chairman’s notes 103.1
Small bits: Edible plates 103.1
Planting a thousand imaginative trees Ian Rands 103.3
Dates for the spring and summer diary 103.2
Letter written while lorries thunder by 103.4
Farewell to Jean Lester 103.4
A summary of the winter meetings 103.2
Harry Collyer, 92 103.4
Glastonbury gets Pride of Place on brochure 103.4
Razing of Morlands ruins to start at last, but Hepworth ‘gallery’ will survive Jim Nagel 103.1
2002 July 104
A visit to the secret Chalice garden JB 104.2
Gallows Clump on Pennard Hill Adrian Pearse 104.4
Dates for the summer diary 104.2
Chairman’s notes 104.1
Medieval farm at East Street JB 104.2
Fiesta celebrates restored Roman statue on Mendips 104.1
Morlands workers invited back to plan action at tannery 104.1
Best-value review and public rights of way JB 104.2
Keeping an eye on planning applications JN 104.4
1 car = 15 trees 104.4
A walk from Bristol 104.4
At the Bath and West Show Ian Rands 104.3
2002 October–November 105
Chairman’s notes 105.1
Letters 105.2
Half a century in Glastonbury John Brunsdon 105.4
Dates for the diary 105.2
Chairman’s notes 105.1
400 come to see plan for Morlands 105.1
Auditors give Mendip a ‘one star’ rating 105.2
Revels round Romulus and Remus 105.3
A Saturday afternoon tour with the stalwart tree-planters John Morland 105.3
2003 January 106
Chairman’s notes 106.1
Winter talks so far 106.2
Dates for the 2003 diary 106.2
Then and now Neill Bonham, Jim Nagel 106.4
Chairman’s notes 106.1
Abbey tree lives on 106.3
Sticklinch hayfield turns into a haven for wildlife Keith and Josie Matthews 106.3
Seeds from the single tree that survived ghastly 1916 battle Ian Rands 106.3
AGM on January 24. 106.1
Call for visual plans 106.1
Tree troops top 2002 with 30,000th tree Ian Rands 106.1
East Street Farm restorations John Brunsdon 106.2
2003 April–May 107
Chairman’s notes 107.1
Dates for the diary 107.2
Chairman’s notes 107.1
Mendip has four staff for conservation 107.3
Tor stonework 107.1
Repairs will take all summer 107.1
Thanks for tree contributions Ian Rands 107.3
Summary of the winter talks 107.2
Proceedings of the annual general meeting for 2002 Janet Morland 107.3
Jack Hepworth: artist, architect, beekeeper, founder member JB, JN 107.4
Southwest prospect then and now Jim Nagel 107.4
Northload Street open spaces being loaded with housing Jim Nagel 107.1
2003 August 108
Ernest John Claude Bromfield, 1916–2003 108.4
Dates for the diary 108.2
Chairman’s notes John Brunsdon 108.1
BBC researcher illuminates John Cannon’s Glastonbury Adrian Pearse 108.2
Summer attractions at the Abbey Barn 108.2
Earliest pictures of Abbey discovered by art dealer in Cheshire 108.1
Hidden history of Roman Catholicism in Glastonbury over the past 400 years 108.3
A grand planting year by the tree troops: we reach 32,696 Ian Rands 108.4
Excerpts from the Cannon memoirs 108.3
Eyesore begins to vanish 108.1
2003 October 109
Chairman’s notes 109.1
Our man in Basra 109.1
Chairman’s notes 109.1
Dates for the diary 109.2
Tree report: The joining of the rows at Wick Ian Rands 109.3
Brief summaries of the autumn meetings 109.2
Rest in peace: Beryl Jones, Anne Shells JB, JN 109.3
Tree-planters take a turn at Torclimbing Adrian Pearse 109.4
2004 January–February 110
Dates for the diary 110.2
Chairman’s notes John Brunsdon 110.1
John Cannon and the church 110.2
Death of Barbara Harland, Lady of the Manor JB 110.2
Eric King 110.2
A fresh embrace for the Betrothal Couple 110.1
Horde of the wings: the starlings moot at Westhay Gillian Booth 110.3
Inspector approves 7 houses at The Hollies 110.1–3
The winter birds of Summerlands Freda Williams 110.3
Alice Buckton’s silent 1922 film comes to local screen again Jim Nagel 110.4
2004 April–May 111
Climate change in the Southwest Adrian Pearse 111.2
Conserving the landscape Terry Carmen 111.2
Ancient woodland Adrian Pearse 111.2
A nature reserve: New chapter opens for Bushy Coombe Anand Rory Weightman 111.4
11th-century pit found at school site: is this where St John’s bells were cast? Brian Mountjoy 111.1
Chairman’s notes 111.1
Total of 33,374 trees planted Ian Rands 111.3
Tree donations 111.3
June 19 tour of environmental centre 111.1
Dates for the diary 111.2
Summary of the winter talks: climate, landscape and woodland 111.2
Peace in the Abbey 111.3
Town’s 300th year 111.3
Footpath upgrades 111.3
Chalice Well honours Alice Buckton Tracy Cutting, JN 111.3
2004 August 112
Glastonbury’s biggest dairy farm gives up: so where do we get our milk? Jim Nagel 112.1
Chairman’s notes 112.1
Dates for the diary 112.2
Waste and regeneration at Dimmer Terry Carmen 112.2
County lobbies government over EU’s Single Farm Payments for orchards 112.3
John Phillips: a tribute Dennis Allen 112.2
John Vigurs Ian Rands 112.2
A remarkable recycling Ian Rands 112.3
Salvage, waste and landfill 112.3
Nominate for an award? 112.3
Orchards on show at Bath & West Ian Rands 112.3
Gypsy family on site below Tor reapplies after losing appeal JN 112.4
2004 October 113
Chairman’s notes John Brunsdon 113.1
Green burials at cemetery extension, a fine view too 113.1
Edgarley herd sold 113.1
Dates for the diary 113.2
Ah, those walks and talks of summer 113.2
A third brood of small tortoiseshells? JB 113.3
A tribute to Tom Todd and his trees Ian Rands 113.3
Satellite system to help maintain footpaths 113.3
Global warming: what is a reliable gauge? Steve Reed 113.4
A puzzle: Where was the Swan Inn? 113.4
2005 February 114
Chairman’s notes John Brunsdon 114.1
Glass bridge over the Abbey crypt 114.1
Carymoor tree-planters need you Terry Carmen 114.1
Dates for the diary 114.2
Talks: Ancient well, doctoral dissertation on Bligh Bond, and lost Wells 114.2
January farewell for two members 114.3
Was this the mysterious Swan Inn? 114.3
Newsletter index on the net 114.3
The 2004 AGM 114.4
2005 May (6 pages) 115
Chairman’s notes John Brunsdon 115.1
Methodist church gets an interior refurbishment Martyn Webb 115.1
Dates for the spring and summer diary 115.2
Tercentenary talk: Why a mayor for Glastonbury? Adrian Pearse 115.2
Tom Billing becomes 300th mayor of Glastonbury 115.2
Archaeology preserved in peat at the Lake Village 115.2
Footpath help Alan Fear 115.3
Scaffolding at Market Cross (photo JN) 115.3
Tree report: 33,745 and counting Ian Rands 115.3
Newsletter index on the net 115.3
Memories of childhood in Somers Square David Orchard 115.4
Labyrinth goes back to the starting point 115.5
Abbey work taking longer than thought 115.5
Ultra-green plant to bottle dowsed water JN 115.5
Local food delivered 115.5
Infilling of Northload Street intensifies JN 115.6
Rhyneland estate to have 200 houses JN 115.6
Six houses by Holy Thorn in Roman Way (photos) 115.6
Road work soon to start at Morlands 115.6
1,300 Bauhaus panes down to zero (photo JN) 115.6
2005 August–September 116
Chairman’s notes 116.1
Food for thought as petrol nudges £1/litre 116.1
A view from when peacetime was new JN 116.1
Living Streets roots for walkers Nick Harrison 116.2
Trees: only one bough survives of Gog and Magog Ian Rands 116.3
Dates for the autumn diary 116.2
Trip to Portsmouth 116.2
New blood at Street Society 116.2
Manning the Bath and West Show Ian Rands 116.2
Kestrel Wood in spring Jennifer White 116.3
One vice-chairman, seven otters 116.3
Glastonbury’s war effort, 1939–45, that’s all 116.4
2005 November–December 117
Chairman’s notes 117.1
Glastonbury to become a World Heritage Site? Discuss at Friday’s AGM 117.1
Assuring the future at the Abbey Vicky Dawson 117.1
Our monthly talks in crisis Terry Carmen 117.1
Talks in summary: a transformed tip, and local food to your door 117.2
A visit to wildlife in winter Terry Carmen 117.2
Dates for the autumn and winter diary 117.2
Blocked pipe asphyxiated fish JB 117.3
Second-brood butterfly spotted on Tor is another sign of changing climate John Brunsdon 117.3
Mendip in Bloom 117.3
Glastonbury’s potential as a World Heritage Site Anthony Ward 117.4
Bove Town dig confirms prehistoric human settlement in Glastonbury 117.4
2006 spring 118
Chairman’s notes John Brunsdon 118.1
Unanimous yes for World Heritage idea at AGM; and county council now backs it JN 118.1
Glastonbury’s potential as a World Heritage Site 118.4
Saturday walks and a date for the diary 118.2
Talks in summary: revel in Butleigh, tower on Tor, absent birds, an 1896 holiday, visit to bird reserve, long-gone trains 118.2–3
Undoing 60 years of hedge-grubbing Ian Rands 118.3
Accounts for 2005 Dennis Allen 118.3
My father Dr Pinniger 118.3
Cross and Crown (photo Linda Robertson) 118.1
2006 June 119
Chairman’s notes John Brunsdon 119.1
Heritage buildings saved at Morlands will affect style of new build Ian Tucker, chairman of BIRT 119.1
Saturday walk and a date in the garden 119.2
Talks in summary: tracing sculptures from the Abbey and terminated trains to Burnham 119.2–3
The dazzling glory of trees in bloom Ian Rands 119.3
Best wishes to Ian Rands — he’ll be a hard act to follow John Brunsdon 119.3
World Heritage Site is about conservation, before tourism or economic growth 119.4
Bulldozers busy at old tanyards; shop is next to go 119.4
Kiwi pioneers kept Glastonbury time 119.4
Train youngsters for Abbey chapel refurb? 119.4
2006 September 120
Chairman’s notes:
Ian Rands, MBE; Bushy Coombe; Winter talks; Garden delight; Artsweek · 120.1
County unveils World Heritage idea AW, NB 120.1
Sunday outing for family of swans Jim Nagel 120.1
Autumn and winter dates for the diary 120.2
New tenant for Lake Village Nancy Hollinrake 120.2
New Doulting stone at St John’s 120.2
Woollan the local clockmaker Matthew Willis 120.3
Trees—21 years on Ian Rands 120.3
Trees walk JB
Old Morlands plans 120.3
Rare finds on the internet auction — and in the Town Hall Adrian Pearse 120.4
Spotlight shines on Shepton Mallet Jim Nagel 120.2
‘Then and now’ at the Abbey JN 120.4
Gallery 8 opens in Market Place 120.4
2006 December 121
Chairman’s notes: MBE presented to Ian Rands; report to AGM 121.1
Christmas shop windows by night 121.1
NEWS High-profile national developers take on Morlands enterprise JB 121.1
Talks in summary Adrian Pearse
End of the Somerset&Dorset railway line on film
Green men;
Chilton Priory
the Chilkwell Street fragment;
Cathedral development project JB 121.2
Puzzle pictures Stephanie Morland 121.3
Glastonbury submerges in Levels for World Heritage bid Anthony Ward 121.3
Dates for your new 2007 diary 121.4
Officers for 2007 121.4
A trainload arrives for the 2006 annual meeting 121.4
Accounts for year ending July 31 Dennis Allen 121.4
2007 May (double issue) 122
Chairman’s notes:
Green Fair: 122.1
Local plan till 2027: 122.1
Eco track: 122.1
Abbey centenary: people behind 1907 auction come to life 122.1
Hardware shop has new owner JN 122.1
Town’s oldest business: the Miller dynasty had iron in the blood Jim Nagel 122.2
Wash where you walk—Look! Colour! JN 122.3
It’s a treat to put your feet on the street 122.3
Plastic at last to be collected 122.3
Picture puzzle: new buildings 122.3
ABBEY 1907–2007 122.4
Take a fresh look through a lens: 122.4
Vote for the Abbey: 122.4
Lacey snowdrops: 122.4
Abbey House ancestor (Letter to the editor) 122.4
Abbey: assuring the future Vicky Dawson 122.4
Centenary celebrations 122.5
Grant will help toward publishing Abbey’s archives 122.5
TALKS:
Glastonbury since the destruction of the Abbey 122.6
Chalice Well evening tour 122.6
Saturday strolls all begin on B 122.6
20 years of restoration on the East Poldens Geoff Brunt 122.7
John Brunsdon’s 55 years in Glastonbury 122.7
Death of Vic Jones John Brunsdon 122.7
Hugs are possible again in Market Place (the Betrothal Couple carving) 122.7
Norwood Park in the 21st century Jo Fryer, of Town & Country Planning Practice Ltd, Littleton 122.8
2007 July 123
Chairman’s notes: the Gauntlet; scarlet tiger moths 123.1
The Gauntlet opens (photos) 123.1
Open evening at Coombe House gardens 123.1
Chasing the noble chafer Ian Rands, Terry Carmen 123.2
Chalice Well tour Alan Fear 123.2
Indoor barbecue, in Tudor style 123.2
Walks and talks for the diary 123.2
Long list of summer events at Abbey Barn 123.2
How big is your ecofootprint? Anthony Ward 123.3
Tree report for 2006–07 Alan Fear 123.3
Every Action Counts, doesn’t it? 123.3
Transition town: what will we do when the oil runs out?
Ian Rands 123.3
Furnishings for a bride Adrian Pearse 123.4
Northover Mill seeks community use 123.4
Mendip environment forum Ian Rands 123.3
Convent re-conversion to grandeur Jim Nagel 123.4
Morlands traffic lights JN 123.4
2007 November 124
Chairman’s notes:
House martins
Glastonbury Spring Water visit
The Tanneries
Abbot’s mill 124.1
Change in the churches, old and new Jim Nagel 124.1
It’s happened before 124.1
Summer outings and talks:
Butterfly walk Richard Montagu 124.2
Carymoor visit Debbie Fear 124.2
The relics of Abbot Whiting Adrian Pearse 124.3
Glastonbury Spring Water 124.3
Modern architects 60 years on Stephanie Morland 124.3
Civic Trust fights loss of local voice 124.4
Magdalene almshouses go to church JN 124.4
Abbey and Abbey Barn in brief 124.4
Young energy rallies for the building of Bridgwater Bernice Lashbrook 124.4
Ancient mill 124.4
2008 June (double issue) 125
Chairman’s notes: building goes on; climate change 125.1
Pianos, Boots and fruits join witches in the High Street Jim Nagel 125.1
Gauntlet wins regional award for building quality JN 125.1
It’s a date:
Norwood Park visit 125.2
What is Glastonbury made of? 125.2
Coombe House gardens 125.2
Autumn dates for diary 125.2
Antiquarians in the future 125.2
Bligh Bond rematerializes in Abbey 125.3
Radiocarbon test dates charcoal to Abbey fire of 1184 JN 125.3
Prisoner-of-war exchange, 65 years on 125.4
Puzzled by St Ben’s gravestones (letter) 125.4
Footpath network gets help from liaison team Nathan Pritchard 125.4
If you find a footpath problem 125.4
Society’s trees now total 42,800 Alan Fear 125.5
Address abandoned to e-deluge Jim Nagel 125.5
2007 AGM report:
Janet puts on second hat from Dennis 125.5
Accounts for year ending July 31 Dennis Allen 125.5
Our new treasurer pleads for Gift Aid and no cash Janet Morland 125.5
Officers for 2008 125.5
Talks in summary: steam, spa and Regency heritage 125.6
Steam around the world Adrian Pearse 125.6
Exploring common ground 125.6
Glastonbury’s 18th-century spa Neill Bonham 125.6
Regency Glastonbury 125.7
St Louis convent is converted, and school is in cyberspace Jim Nagel 125.7
Further back Neill Bonham 125.7
Son of the soil: Ted Hippisley, 1914–2008
Fix or make do Larry Schenk 125.8
Jobs done John Brunsdon 125.8
2008 August 126
Chairman’s notes:
Dig for victory 126.1
Coombe House gardens 126.1
Oldest shop shut (Millers hardware) 126.1
Marchant’s Buildings 126.1
Still time to prepare for the self-reliance Harvest Show this September Linda Hull 126.1
Restoration work at Norwood Park and East Street farm John Brunsdon 126.2
Autumn dates for your diary 126.2
Why did our house martins relocate? Ian Rands 126.3
Abbey Barn has plenty for summer visitors 126.3
Trees: Scouts help plant and prune Alan Fear 126.3
Medallion from 1911 found in Hampshire 126.3
What is Glastonbury made of? Susanna van Rose 126.4
|| History 1977–1988 || History 1989–2001 ||
Edited by Jim Nagel on 19 August 2008 