Today there were red coated soldiers marching around Bridgwater firing guns, wielding pikes and talking rebellion. As it happens it was the Sealed Knot society here to recreate the last battle (so far) on English Soil. The Battle of Sedgemoor is a tale of rebellion, defeat and the bloody justice handed out by a tyrannical […]
On June 18 1992 Bridgwater became the first British town to twin with a town in Czechoslovakia after their Velvet Revolution. At the Medieval Sydenham Manor, then in the heart of the British Cellophane works in the east of Bridgwater, ornately costumed Slavic folk dancers in knee length leather boots, embroidered shirts and plume feathered […]
Well, let’s face it. Villain. By his own admission he done it. What did he do? Shot several unarmed prisoners during the Boer War and his defence was he was only following orders and the rule he used was ‘rule 303’ named after the rifle of the same name. However, a century after these events […]
It was Christmas time in the Bridgwater Workhouse and Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant had just been born. From this harsh, bleak environment he would go on to be a famous horseman, a bush poet, an adventurer, a soldier of the Queen and played by Edward Woodward in a well known 1980 film. Sadly, this son of […]
It’s May 1865 and someone professing to be a ‘photographer’ is out capturing images of Bridgwater for the first time with his ‘camera’. As he walks down the traffic-free St.Mary street to where it meets the newly built Taunton road he notices someone has daubed ‘Westropp for ever’ on the wall of the old Workhouse […]