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....
Water polo was a popular sport in Weston-super-Mare. This autographed photograph suggests that the womenês team had become local celebrities....
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!...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This miniature china jug which shows the arms of Weston-super-Mare was made by Swan China as a souvenir popular with tourists....
This medallion celebrates the marriage of Prince George to Princess Mary of Teck in 1893....
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....
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...