Cleveland - Lime Street, Nether Stowey, Somerset 1930's
This is an old postcard which was sent by someone staying in Over Stowey which is sort of above Nether Stowey in altitude but just over a mile away. "Here is Nether Stowey 1 1/4 miles below us." they say. " Coleridge's house is the one on the left just beyond the telegraph pole. Otherwise it is uninteresting. Over Stowey has no P.O not even a shop." This is clearly untrue from my perspecitive today looking back as there is a lovely old Cleveland sign in shot and a very old petrol pump with a period Cleveland globe atop. The Coleridge is the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and he rented this place in 1797. It was this information that made finding the same location today easy. Some of the other signs showing in shot are familiar, Wills Gold Flake and Pratts Motor Oil but Brownies Tobaccos and Biggs Tobaccos are unfamiliar names to me. The same view today is largely unchanged except for the expected loss of the petrol pump. www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.1519731,-3.1575377,3a,75y,347.0...
Cleveland - Lime Street, Nether Stowey, Somerset 1930's
This is an old postcard which was sent by someone staying in Over Stowey which is sort of above Nether Stowey in altitude but just over a mile away. "Here is Nether Stowey 1 1/4 miles below us." they say. " Coleridge's house is the one on the left just beyond the telegraph pole. Otherwise it is uninteresting. Over Stowey has no P.O not even a shop." This is clearly untrue from my perspecitive today looking back as there is a lovely old Cleveland sign in shot and a very old petrol pump with a period Cleveland globe atop. The Coleridge is the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and he rented this place in 1797. It was this information that made finding the same location today easy. Some of the other signs showing in shot are familiar, Wills Gold Flake and Pratts Motor Oil but Brownies Tobaccos and Biggs Tobaccos are unfamiliar names to me. The same view today is largely unchanged except for the expected loss of the petrol pump. www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.1519731,-3.1575377,3a,75y,347.0...