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The Wheel
RADSTOCK HERITAGE BOARDS The idea of having some information boards in
Radstock for local people and tourists to learn a little more about the heritage of the town, originally came from the Radstock Residents’ Association. Recently, the resulting boards were installed in the town, and already many people have been seen stopping to look at them during their daily lockdown walks. Local residents raised the idea with Radstock Town Council in September 2018 and a budget for the boards was made available from the “community infrastructure fund” (monies given to councils by
developers). Diane Abbott, Office and Communications Officer at Radstock Town Council, coordinated the project, and began by organising a meeting with volunteers from Radstock Museum. Volunteers, Dr Nick Hall, Museum Chairman and Lucy Tudor, Head of Publicity, took onboard the residents’ wishes and set about choosing key locations within the town that had a story to tell in local history. It was decided that there would be two A1 size boards, one to be sited in the Miner’s Memorial
