The Belmont Nursing home started off as a building in Highdale Road but when the school became empty on Chapel Hill they moved into that.

An early shot of the Gas works staff taken about 1938-9.
I used to be able to name a lot of them but since my stroke my memory is
not so good.

The allotments a picture taken by my father in the early 1900's. Before Oldville Avenue was even thought of.

Another really old picture from around 1925-27
What a shame that they won't let me post them on the Clevedon web-site.
This on is where ?  I know but do you?

Came across a couple of early pictures.
{Pity that the 'Clevedon' site has got so crabby or should I have spelt that Crappy}
I think their members would have been delighted to see these.
They must be pre-1914-18 war. Imagine trying to set up a tripod and plate camera in the middle of the road today !
It would be dad enough with a small 35mm camera hand held.

A couple of rare pictures of the crowd gathering and the dedication of the Boer War memorial.
There were a couple of letters written to the Mercury about the need to put the memorial there where it would be seen by all the visitors that came to Clevedon. However for once no notice was taken and the Boer War memorial has graced the position ever since.
I think they are the only two photos that have survived. One as a bettered post card which I photographed and repaired, the other as a glass negative that I copied over to a positive.

The old sign at the blacksmiths in Old Street.
It hung on the wall long after the smith had left.

And a peer at the arwa where the supermarket was to be planted.

A look at the beach area from on high and down low.

Widening Walton Road in 1960
Some of the first shots I took with my new Agiflex single-lens reflex roll film camera it had cost just under £100 and I started taking pictures for the Clevedon Mercury, working on my own initiative as I went around in the oil van. It took a couple of years but eventually the camera had paid for itself.

In the early days you didn't risk getting run over because the clip clop of horses hoofs was a good warning
What you did have to worry about if you were a female was horses deposits on the road. The was why men invented 'Crossing sweepers'

 This post is dedicated to THE HOSPITAL THAT NEVER WAS

Clevedon Engineering Co. was based on the corner of then road next to the river. It was started and run by a man who built thr first British car to be made entirely with British components.
As far as I know only 2 of his cars survive both owned by a driver from the South East of Britain.

Fives wall at Bishops Lydeard noticed it on my way through and took a snap.

Gall-Ox bridge at Dunster.

Views across the moors fro the hill where the road goes past the Ordnance survey point; and a look at the river in the valley..

Did you know that Penicillin mass production was 'more or less' invented by the Naval Hospital base in Clevedon. The place was at Eastington in Elton Road with an extension built on the rear that was accessed from Hallam Road.

A woven statue near Exmuth. The artist has captured the joy of life in this work. It graces a small shopping center near Exmouth.

Taking a long view if the pier.