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2024-03-29T08:52:57+00:00text/html2020-04-22T16:29:47+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/40421Elaine Owen51.053846 -2.727585ST4928 : Art Gallery in historic former Town Hall, Somerton
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After many years this building has been brought back into use as an art gallery which includes studio spaces for artiststext/html2020-04-22T16:22:33+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/40421Elaine Owen51.053753 -2.728154ST4928 : Buttercross, Somerton
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The ancient buttercross at Somertontext/html2019-10-10T17:56:44+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/40421Elaine Owen51.054923 -2.727887ST4928 : Donisthorpe House, Cow Square, Somerton, Somerset
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Large house with wonky windows House
Grade 2 listed and description that says "Formerly detached. Apparently 1770. Local stone cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings; double Roman clay
tile roof behind parapet between coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 7 bays. Sash windows of 12 panes in architraved surrounds, that to centre upper bay having segmental arched head; continuous label over ground floor windows and central open stone portico, which has Doric columns on short plinths carrying moulded flat stone hood; simple lead rainwater downpipes and stackheads to each side, and simple moulding to plain parapet. Said to have been built in 1770, but could well be a re-modelling of an earlier building.text/html2019-10-10T17:46:58+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/40421Elaine Owen51.054924 -2.727745ST4928 : The Old Hall in Cow Square, Somerton, Somerset
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Elegant house in Cow Square. The site of the Old Hall can be dated back to 1278, This building was once the County Hall and the Court of Assizes.text/html2019-10-10T17:25:37+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/40421Elaine Owen51.054835 -2.727601ST4928 : Vintage Clothes shop in Broad Street, Somerton
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Vintage clothes shop in Broad Street, Somerton. This (aptly named) road used to be full of shops and a bank but gradually the centre of shopping moved around the corner and footfall decreased. However, several new businesses have opened recently with more to come. This is one of three shops who now focus on vintage and antique goodstext/html2019-10-10T13:08:27+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/40421Elaine Owen51.053731 -2.731578ST4828 : Bernard Stacey butcher in West Street, Somerton
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Longstanding family run butcher, one of two in this market town providing a traditional personalised service to all customers.text/html2019-10-10T10:21:12+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/40421Elaine Owen51.055214 -2.724468ST4928 : Cottage at end of New Street, Somerton
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This old cottage stands like an exclamation mark at the end of the street.text/html2017-11-09T14:09:13+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/40421Elaine Owen50.938644 -1.470517SU3715 : Ordnance Survey War Memorial
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Ordnance Survey's war memorial appropriately reflects the shape of a triangulation pillar and stands in a quiet garden in the corner of the office grounds (not open to the public).
The list of names below has been enhanced with Christian names where known and a couple of additional ones are included that have been identified since the pillar was erected.
World War 1: Charles Atkinson, William James Barnes, James Henry Bear, George Thomas Bellingham, Frederick Henry Benlow, George Edward Bennett, Charles William Bird, Edmund Knyvett Boileau, Frederick William Burrows, James Martin Cahalan, Thomas Cahill, Thomas Casserly, James Cleary, Arthur Edward Coles, Oscar Reginald Croft, John Cronin, Oliver Cusack, Joseph Harry Devonshire, Maurice Wright D'Hooghe, Cecil Arthur Dixey, James Donnellan, John Joseph Dullea, Percival Walter Kaye Farr, Jack Henry Fuidge, John Charles Gilpin, Edward Hamilton Goddard, James Haddock, Frederick George Harvey, Thomas M Hayes, John Herlihy, Archibald Horton, James William Howard, Rowland Hugh Jones, Michael Joseph Kennedy, Daniel Kenny, Patrick Killian, Lawson Knowlton, Charles Lawson, George Henry Lenderyou, Thomas Joseph Lynch, Bernard L Martin, Thomas Joseph McCarthy, William McIlroy, Edwin Arthur Nightingale, Robert Griffith Parry, John Samuel Pattison, Henry Quinton, Jeffery Rimmer, Oliver Charles Rogers, Edward Rogers, Alfred Walter Robert Ross, Harold Walter Russell, Gilbert Harold King Salter, Henry Matthew Scarff, Thomas Henry Simmons, Albert Edward Smith, Benjamin Stander, James Stevenson, Henry George Stoyle, Henry Stride, Francis Stanley Tatum, Frederick Thomas, George Ranson Thompson, George Ernest Trimmer, Thomas Walsh, Frederick Thomas Warr, Reginald Ernest Waterman, Ivor Wilde
World War 2: Roland Worthen Bannister, R H Barnes, Stephen Brunton, W R Clark, George Edward Culley, Alan Victor Davies, Charles Kenneth Davies, John Philip D'eath, James Slessor Duncan, William Andrew Eccleston, Alma Hetty Flux, Donovan John Foster, Reginald Robert George French, Bernard George Derry Gardner, Harold Leonard George, Albert Henry Greenway. George Alexander Grundy, Samuel Herbert Percival Grundy, John Oldham Hawdon, Mervyn Frank Hughes, J Hurst, Reginald Bertram Jackson, D W Jennings. Kenneth Augustine Byng Johnson, Leslie Francis Keep, Maurice James Kynaston, Ronald Alfred Lakin, Charles Edgar Leat, A R Lewis, Thomas Edward Livingstone, Herbert Edward Lowe, Derrick Mallett, W Martin, Harold Thomas Jones May, James Aloysius Mclaughlin, A J Mitchell, David Glyndwr Morgan, Walter William Notton, Clive Marshall Oldham, Victor Oliver, Winifred Betty Oliver, Michael George Olley, Leonard John Patterson, Montague Scott Penn, J L Pitman, Albert Edward Prestidge, John Henry Read, J E Roberts, B J Russell, W I Smith, W Thomas, F J Tyler, Claude Edward Martin Walton, Edwin John Honore Wheeler, Kenneth Ronald Whitmarsh.
A service of remembrance for former and present employees takes place each year.text/html2016-07-24T16:10:59+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/40421Elaine Owen51.032669 -2.690603ST5126 : Kingsdon Village Shop
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A volunteer run community shop is located in the old Primary School. The playground provides parking for visitors to this quiet historic village.