Photograph of Weston-super-Mare Swimming Club Womenês Water Polo Team
Water polo was a popular sport in Weston-super-Mare. This autographed photograph suggests that the womenês team had become local celebrities....
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Photograph of William Davies, Weston-super-Mare Town Crier, at Hastings
William Davies is shown at a town criersê contest in Hastings, East Sussex. He was the only town crier in England who travelled by donkey!...
Painting of Mrs Harriet Barry
Mrs Harriet Barry is shown peeling potatoes. She was married to the Keeper of Kewstoke Lodge Gate. This is one of a series of 40 paintings of local characters known...
Painting entitled 'Urban Landscape'
Norman Parker describes his work as neo-Surrealism; surrealist imagery but without the Surrealist ideology. I like exploring the marvellous and irrational; in finding beauty in strange thingsê. This painting is...
Painting entitled 'On the Steps of a Venetian Church'
In the 1800s Italy was a popular destination for British artists. Keeley Halswelle lived in Italy for a number of years in the 1860s and 1870s. He painted many scenes...
Painting of Glastonbury Abbey
Glastonbury Abbey was once the wealthiest monastic house in England. When it was dissolved in 1539 its buildings were plundered and quickly became ruinous. George Arnald presents the abbey as...
Jug
This miniature china jug which shows the arms of Weston-super-Mare was made by Swan China as a souvenir popular with tourists....
Medallion commemorating the marriage of Prince George and Princess Mary
This medallion celebrates the marriage of Prince George to Princess Mary of Teck in 1893....
Medallion commemorating the coronation of Edward VII
Edward VII was coronated in 1902, after the death Queen Victoria in 1901. To commemorate this occasion the Mayor of Bridgwater, T W Manchip, issued these medallions....
Medallion commemorating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria
The village of Banwell is found in the North Somerset district of the county. In 1887 the village's Fire Brigade issued this medallion to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. That...