The Dippy ~ Have Your Say!

A SERIES of events are being organised to encourage people to have their say on what they would like to see done in The Dippy.

F1 McLaren passing through

Frome's Georgian Buildings

ARCHITECTURAL historian Amy Frost, the collections manager of the Building of Bath Museum and curator of Beckford's Tower and Museum, was speaker at the Frome Society for Local Study and the Frome and District Civic Society November talk.

Bath is famous for its Georgian buildings and the names of the architects became well known beyond the city boundaries.

Despite the fact that Frome is so close to Bath and that, in Frome, Thomas Bunn was so keen to emulate (overtake) Bath in the architectural stakes there would appear to be very little known of the work of Bath architects in Frome.

Orchardleigh

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Orchardleigh (also spelled Orchardlea) is a country estate in Somerset, approximately two miles north of Frome, and on the southern edge of the village of Lullington. It comprises a Victorian country house, the Orchardleigh Lake with its island church, and an eighteen-hole golf course. Various accommodation is provided, both in the house itself and at adjacent lodges and cottages in the extensive grounds.

Rugby Ambassadors

Awarded for Bravery.

A FROME Special Constable has been awarded a Royal Humane Society Bravery Award after saving a drowning man in Frome.

At an Avon and Somerset Police ceremony in Taunton, Special Constable Steven Cook received the award after he waded into the river near the Cheese and Grain in the town to save a man from drowning in January of this year. Despite the freezing conditions and steep banks, he managed to drag the unconscious man out of the river and saved his life.

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• Friday, November 22, 2013

New Homes Planned

AN OUTLINE application to build 58 homes at TH White, in Frome, has been recommended for approval by planning officers.

Next Wednesday's planning committee will be deciding whether to go with the recommendation and allow the development in the main yard and buildings of the agricultural merchants' business on the east side of Vallis Road.

The site was identified for housing in Mendip District Council's local plan in 2002. So far the council has received six letters highlighting possible problems the new houses could pose with overlooking existing properties and increased traffic on the busy road with no traffic calming. Some neighbours fear there are too many houses proposed for the size of the site.

Planners believe the site is within a reasonable distance of local facilities and services. The developers will be putting two bus stops on the site.



This is Somerset ~ Thursday, November 14, 2013

Britains WW2 Defense was in Nunney

The following was contributed by Historian Terry Cliss, of Frome.

Nunney is holding a World War 2 exhibition about its involvement in the war.

This information had been held in secret for many decades, but at last it is known by all and sundry that Nunney was one of Britain's secret plans to defeat Nazi Germany in WW2.

The Nazis had come across information that there is a castle in Nunney which could have prevented their invading Britain. The Luftwaffe and German Paratroops had been organized to do a drop in Nunney to take the castle and so minimize Britain's resistance. So the British War Office had organized a new division of Dad's Army to prevent the castle being taken. The Home Guard and Captain Mannering were put on full alert to prevent this happening at all costs.

Now it is to be revealed at the Nunney in World War Two exhibition. It will be fascinating to learn of this.

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