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Collected news clippings from ‘This week in the news – Somerset news stories from the past 250 years ‘ here. (Unfortunately that website is no longer functioning so there will be no further updates).
March 2026
A new sub-page, ‘The Twilight Years’, has been added to the Jetty page.
The King Alfred School opening programme has been added here, linked from Technical College / County Secondary page.
Two sets of recollections by teacher Malcolm Greenhalgh have been added: St Dunstan’s School and St Andrew’s School.
A new video of cycling enthusiasts has been added to the Home page.
June
Additional pictures of the B17 bomber crash on the beach have been added here, linked from Crashes & Wrecks page.
July
A page on WWII casualties has been added here. Linked from WWII page.
Local press summaries of Burnham in 1905 and 1906 have been added on the ‘Retrospective’ page.
Additional information added into Postal Service page
August
The Home menu has been reorganised so that sources, other websites and credits now appear as separate pages. The contents of the opening home page (which is not easily navigated back to) is now fully duplicated on the About page on the menu.
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Dear Mr Strickland, I have two of the old seafront benches ( need renovation)
do you know if they of intrest to anyone?
Hello Peter and thanks for thinking on us.
Do they have any council or town markings please ?
I will ask around but I know this will be their first question posted to me.
John
Hi
Do you know an history about the site of the iron duke please
Hello Diane,
Edit: Looking at your question as you mention “the site” I wonder whether it is the building, now ‘The Iron Duke’ pub, that you are referring to. It appears that this was originally part of The Reeds Arms Hotel (now Wetherspoons) which was opened in 1858. We have no record of anything on the site prior to that. The town as we now know it was only just starting to be developed during this period so it may well have been empty. You can see further information on the Reeds Arms page under ‘Hotels & Pubs’ on the ‘Places’ menu. Also an aerial view of the site on the ‘North Esplanade’ page.
– Nigel
Hi,
We live near to where Paradise Farm was and are trying to find info about when our house was built. Is there an email I can use to contact you?
Nicky
Hello Nicky,
You should now have my email address in you in box.
Fingers crossed I can help.
John
Is there anyone running this website whu I could email with?
Hello Hugh,
You should have an email from my personnel address title captureburnham. We can now correspond here now.
John
Hi John, its Bruce (Peter Yards son)
We have some very large maps that used to belong to “Kim” Kimber the boat builder. He was a friend of my Nan and Grandad and they had them. They are in a very old wartime type folder, and very large and heavy.
From memory they are war era and show all the things in the channel around here. Possibly mapped out by Kimber himself.
If you are interested in these then please contact me and we can arrange to get them to you.
Thanks Bruce
ps: These are i think of very important local historical interest
Hello Bruce,
Thanks for thinking on me and yes I would like them please for my history group use.
I have contacted you via our personnel emails to arrange collection /delivery.
thanks again,
John
Hello I have loads of burnham family info , Capt George Warren was my gran’s Grandfather, please can I send it in?
Hello Kate,
Unfortunately we cannot take attachments direct to this site so I have sent you an email from my personnel mail and please send anything you have to me and I will arrange for an update here with you as the provider.
Thank you for your interest and time and should you find any more of interest please share it with us.
John
Good morning thank you for such great work in this fantastic website! How can I get in touch with you as I am currently writing a presentation on paradise and Burnham which I will eventually make into a documentary and would appreciate your knowledge i also have some fascinating information which I have discovered hope this gets to the people who make this website possible
Hi Philip,
Thanks for expressing your appreciation of the website and your interest. John Strickland will get in touch with you via your email address.
Hello Philip,
You should now have an email from me and we can now correspond via that if you wish.
John
Hello Philip.
As I’ve not heard from you I thought maybe another try via my email address.
We have an avid interest in how the area known as Paradise came about as there is many references to this name on maps and areas.
I will send you an email with he heading Paradise in the hope that we can correspond more.
John
Hi
Just doing family history research and while I knew I was born in Burnham, have finally worked out it was in the orginal Kinver Terrace block and have been able to match a few family snaps as taken here before we moved ‘up north’. If of any use for your site do let me know. I’m not sure it would have looked so grand back in the 1950s mind you!
Thanks for your comment Simon. We already have quite a lot of photos of Kinver Terrace itself, do you have any photos significantly different to those of the town already on the site?
My dad’s photos are mostly of us as a family in the back yard, on the beach etc. I could put together a page of bits and bobs but none of us are famous! Sorry for delay replying, things happened! Simon
Thanks for your reply Simon. However it sounds as though your photos would principally be of interest to family members rather than the public in general. We can really only give space to photos which illuminate aspects of the town itself or are of well known local people so we would not be able to use them but thank you for your interest.
Hello Simon,
My first Home was in Flat 3 Kinver Terrace. I was born in May 1949 in what was the Lulworth Nursing Home – later The Lulworth Guest House and now a private residence on the Berrow Road opposite the junction with Westfield road .