Cider-maker Cuthbert Rose of Cocklake, Wedmore recalls the local cooper, Teddy Thomas, who made and repaired the barrels used during cider-making.
Somerset Voices: Cuthbert Rose (b1907) Part 4
June 20, 2009 at 4:00 am (Biography, History)
Tags: Cocklake, Cuthbert Rose, Teddy Thomas, Wedmore
Burial clubs: the unfriendly societies
June 19, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: National Archives
Friendly Societies were popular in the 19th Century, and were regulated by law. Surprisingly, burial clubs, which offered a form of life insurance, didn’t always fall into this category, and provided many incentives to commit fraud – and even murder! Learn more in this podcast from the National Archives
Dorsetshire
June 18, 2009 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, Dorsetshire, Swanage
The following extract was originally published in A guide to the coasts of Hants & Dorset by Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott in 1859 and digitized by Google on March 19, 2007.
Somerset Voices: Cuthbert Rose (b1907) Part 3
June 17, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Cocklake, Cuthbert Rose, Somerset, Wedmore
Cuthbert Rose produced cider on his farm in Cocklake, a hamlet near Wedmore, until his death in the 1990s. The type of cider produced depends on the variety of apples used, the weather, and the cider-maker’s personal recipe. Kingston Black, Yarlington Mill, The Dunkerton Late Sweet, Morgan Sweets and Stoke Red are all varieties of apples grown in Somerset. Some apples are sweeter, while others have high acidity; cider-makers blend these different types of apples together to achieve unique types of cider – usually sweet, medium or dry.
Jacob William Wheeler Ashley (1833-1912)
June 16, 2009 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Ashley, Bray, Watts
Jacob William Wheeler Ashley was born on March 18, 1833 at Laverton, Somerset, England the eldest son of James Ashley and Joanna Wheeler. The family moved to Hemington where younger brother James was born and the family are to be found in the 1841 and 1851 census returns.
Somerset Voices: Cuthbert Rose (b1907) Part 2
June 15, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Cocklake, Cuthbert Rose, Glastonbury, Somerset, Wedmore
Cuthbert Rose of Cocklake, Wedmore produced traditional cider for most of the last century. In this recording Cuthbert Rose describes the mill he used to grind up the apples before they were pressed. The Day Iron Foundry in nearby Mark made the mill. The foundry produced a variety of agricultural implements, some of which are on display at the Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury. Mr Rose used wooden shovels to shovel out the apple pomace from the mill into the cider press. Wooden shovels were used because metal shovels would taint and even poison the cider. It took two men to turn the wheels of the mill.
Titanic Lives: The Crew of RMS Titanic
June 14, 2009 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy, History)
Tags: National Archives
Much has been written about RMS Titanic, but this has tended to concentrate on the ship and its passengers. Using sources such as crew lists, local newspapers, Titanic Fund minute books and the newly released 1911 census, this podcast from the National Archives traces the lives of a crewmen and his family and seeks to answer the question: What was life like for families in Southampton in the aftermath of the tragedy?
Town”Carnival” Poole Park 1937
June 13, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Poole
Poole “Carnival” Poole Park 1937 The film opens with the Barnardo’s Home Navy Band marching from the Jellico House in Constitution Hill Road To Poole Park .The parade is moving east to west.Floats ,Beauty Queen,and civic dignitaries abound. This film was taken by the pre-war local amateur film photographer Lee Hartnell
Somerset Voices: Cuthbert Rose (b1907) Part 1
June 12, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Cocklake, Cuthbert Rose, Philippa Legg, Wedmore
Cuthbert Rose was born in 1907. He produced traditional cider on his farm in Cocklake, a hamlet near Wedmore. Philippa Legg recorded Cuthbert in conjunction with her book ‘Cider Making in Somerset’. In this clip Cuthbert is talking about the barrels used in cider making, and the fermentation process.
1911 Census for Wales Goes Online
June 11, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, History)
Tags: Census, Wales
2.4 million people in Wales were recorded in the census taken on the night of April 2, 1911. The records of those people living in all 13 of the Welsh counties in 1911 are now available online at www.1911census.co.uk, where they join the 1911 census records from England first released in January 2009.
