GLASTONBURY 200 past newsletter articles online in full Jim Nagel
This is Newsletter 150. To celebrate the milestone, around 200 articles (so far) from the past 25 years of newsletters are now online in full on the Conservation Society’s website.
Here’s a sample of what you can read online:
• Hartlake cycle bridge is re-cycled
• Tree total reaches 25,000 (1999, Newsletter 91)
• Coombe House then and now (2000, Newsletter 94)
• Tribute to Sheena Rees, healer of injured birds
• The High Street in the 1940s (by Eric King, four parts)
• Farewell to the Rileys and the vicarage
• Jack Hepworth: artist, architect, beekeeper, founder member
• A nature reserve: new chapter opens for Bushy Coombe
• A tribute to Tom Todd and his trees
• Tercentenary talk: why a mayor for Glastonbury?
• Ultra-green plant to bottle dowsed water
• Glastonbury to become a World Heritage Site?
• High-profile developers take on the Morland site
• Town’s oldest business: the Miller dynasty had iron in the blood
• What is Glastonbury made of? (by Susanna van Rose, geologist)
• Morland buildings are occupied at last ... but not as the RDA intended
• Bridgwater and Glastonbury visit each other
• The chronicles of John Cannon: an abstract by Prof. John Money
• New houses at top of town promise more trees than before
• Young George Tucker is sure to recall his Jubilee “beating” the bounds
• Was a panther also beating the bounds of Glastonbury?
• New fungal diseases threaten more of our trees
• Glastonbury’s listed post office marks 75th anniversary
• Lorry crash reveals Abbey stone of Benedict Street houses
• Trevor Adams, 1941–2014: vet, gardener, magistrate, churchwarden
• All four banks abandon Glastonbury: Lloyds’ black horse is the last to bolt.
Many of the articles have colour photos instead of the original black-and-white prints. Freed from space restrictions, headlines online are sometimes fuller than they were in print, but otherwise the text of articles is pretty well unchanged.
Some cross-references have been added to link to related articles in other issues of the newsletter.
Overall, the website has had a behind-the-scenes technical makeover to make it visually clean and consistent and fast to load. The home page does not look all that different (yet), but there is one important new feature:
• A Search box. Enter any word or phrase and press Go; if your phrase appears anywhere in any of the online articles, you can click in the results to go exactly there. For this feature we must thank an excellent service called Freefind.
• A link to the Table of Contents for all newsletters since 1999* now appears beside the Search box. If you have kept the original printed newsletters, you will find the relevant page number for each article. Articles online in full are flagged with a symbol that you can click to go straight there.
More articles will appear online as time permits. If there is one that you would like to see sooner, email Jim Nagel via the link at the bottom of any page.
(* Newsletters between 1991 and 1999 are archived on old cartridges. They too will appear online after a bit of cyberarchaeology.)
