I recently purchased what at first glance appeared to be a fairly common picture postcard of Luccombe on an internet auction site, and after some friendly negotiation, finished up spending [...]
A recent visitor to Luccombe called on me looking for information about a distant relative who used to live in the village, which led to me looking into the history [...]
GOD SAVE THE KING! - Luccombe Coronation Festivities. I have no written records of any Coronation celebrations in Luccombe pre-1953, however I have “personalised” Coronation mugs from both 1911 and 1937. [...]
Fewer words and more pictures this month, as I look at Luccombe on the front covers of the Country Life magazine First appearing in 1897, Country Life has always been [...]
It was not until I received an e-mail and some images from ex-Holt Ball resident and enthusiastic local historian Philip Ashford, that I was reminded that 60 years ago, the [...]
This month's story is all about he Lost Cottage on the Village Green...and the felonious exploits of one of its inhabitants (and her friends) There is clear evidence that several [...]
I was recently scanning a fragile cutting from a regional newspaper that had been given to me by an elderly Luccombe resident in the 1990s. Although there was no date [...]
As the recent heatwave recedes into distant memory, it seems that on this occasion West Somerset was fortunate to be spared the ravages of the wild fires that caused so [...]
The government had been planning for the evacuation of children and other vulnerable people from certain high-risk areas to relative safety in the countryside for some time before Operation Pied [...]
Eric's post this month is the last part in his series about Holt Ball and is primarily focused on Ronald Pitts Crick: The concluding part of this story concentrates on [...]
LOVELY JUBILEE! 1935 Luccombe Jubilee Celebrations There exists a thin school exercise book (the sort that has those weights and measures and times tables on the back cover), that gives [...]
In my previous two “Pictures of the Month”, I described the early history of Holt Ball, and to a lesser degree, Holt. This month, in a change to my original [...]
