Issue 34

There are currently important developments going on in Bruton, and you can read about them in Stuart Adlington’s report for Bruton The Way Forward (page 13), John Bishton’s on the Bruton Trust (page 15) and Roger Gallannaugh’s article about the excavations in the Abbey field (page 15). Please, do take the opportunity to look at the proposals and make your comments – the plans will have far-reaching consequences and now is the chance to make your mark on the town’s future. The various bodies are displaying their ideas at the Packhorse Fair, which takes place on the Jubilee Bank Holiday, Monday 4 June.

Issue 33

The inhabitants of this county . . . entertain a kind of indifference for the rest of the world, owing, probably, to the good opinion they entertain of their own portion of it. (John Strachey, 1737)

This is one of the splendid quotations on the walls and ceiling of the turret room in the Museum of Somerset at Taunton, which the Friends of Bruton Museum visited on the last day of February. I think we all feel it has a certain aptness! Certainly, everyone I come across in Bruton and district entertains a good opinion of their own little piece of Somerset.