That Hamlet on the Hill: Remembering a Former Life in Somerset

Stratton-on-the-Fosse, as the name suggests, is built on the old Roman Fosse Road running through the Mendip Hills. The beautiful city of Bath is 19kms to the North, with Shepton Mallet 10kms to the South, Frome 17kms to the East, and Wells, which is the smallest city in England, 16kms to its West.The author has not lived there for over 45 years, but through photographs, anecdotes and personal recollections has attempted to document what life was like in the 1950s to the 1970s, not only in the village, but in the Midsomer Norton/Radstock areas, and farther afield. The famous Downside School and Abbey, St Vigors, St Benedicts and Somervale Schools, Clarks Shoe Factory, local sportspersons and personalities, and the Somerset and Dorset Railway are some of the topics detailed and fondly remembered.