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Programme 2024 – 25

NEWSFLASH 2nd April:
there will be a rescheduling of two of the talks in the upcoming programme. ‘The Quakers of Burnham’ scheduled for April 9th will now be given on May 14th. The April talk will now be ‘ The Importance of Seafaring in the Burnham Area’
We apologise for any inconvenience for this unavoidable change.
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The membership fee remains at  £10 a year and there is a £5 per session charge for visitors.

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).

Site updates and other information 

Jan 2025

A new page has been added on Friendly Societies and  Fraternal Orders.

On the ‘Retrospective’ page a local press summary report on 1904 has been added.

A new Summer carnival picture  from c.1920 has been added here.

Apr 2025

NSLHG 40th ANNIVERSARY and LAUNCH of THOMAS HISTORY ARCHIVE 11th May.

Click below for details:

Event Announcement


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17 thoughts on “News”

  1. 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

    1. Hello Hugh,

      You should have an email from my personnel address title captureburnham. We can now correspond here now.
      John

      1. 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

        1. 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

      2. Hello I have loads of burnham family info , Capt George Warren was my gran’s Grandfather, please can I send it in?

        1. 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

  2. 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

    1. 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.

    2. 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

  3. 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!

    1. 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?

      1. 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

        1. 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.

    2. 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 .

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