100 years ago

Quoits: Wells City vs Wookey, the city has this season been engaged in a series of handicaps, which are now nearly completed. The games have been followed with the keenest interest by club supporters and citizens generally.

Girls Blue School Wells. An examination for an entrance scholarship will be held in the above School on September 10, at 10am.

The Priddy and Crapnell camps can only be described as "Irish Bogs". In some places, especially the roadways, one has to paddle in exceedingly deep mud, and squads of men have been busy at the impossible task of trying to make passable roadways.

50 Years Ago:

The Wells Boxing Club will be opening again in September and there's news that three of its members will probably be seen on television on two occasions in the near future.

Roy Wolfe, Ken Swain and Ken Carter expect to be selected for the Somerset ABA team which fights in Yorkshire.

These three, it is hoped, also be boxing at Frome on November 12.

Both tournaments will be covered by the TV programme Grandstand.

The prospects for the Boxing Club look very bright, Mr Jack Munden told the Journal this week that it's hoped to build a permanent ring at the Princes Headquarters. The Club has also purchased weight-lifting equipment and, given the right support, this might lead to the formation of a weight-lifting section.

A piano accordian stolen from an unoccupied bungalow, Mon Abri, Street, was later found in a field.

The accordian, valued at £40, was the property of Mr Richard John Malcolm of Frome Road Villas, Wells.

The theft is believed to have occurred sometime between Sunday week and the following Wednesday.

25 years ago

Wells Oratorio Society resumes rehearsals on Monday, September 9, at 7.30pm in the Undercroft of the Cathedral. The work to be performed this evening is The Dream of Gerontius by Elgar.

There are vacancies for all voices and new members will be welcome.

Thieves stole £900 worth of tools and equipment from the back of a builders van in Clement Close, Wells last week.

The tools, which include a Kango hammer, a disc cutter and two spirits levels, are owned by White and York Ltd.

Sandy Watt, of Burcott Road, Wells, who plays bowls for Morlands and Somerset, has reached the quater finals of the Sago Over 60s KO Tournament.

Sandy, who reached last year's final, will play an opponent from Kent next Tuesday in Torquay where the finals take place.

10 years ago

St Cuthbert's Festival Of Music And The Arts in Wells got off to a good start over the weekend.

The week-long festival started with a service on Sunday, at which the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Rt Rev James Thompson, was the preacher and celebration. A lunch in Wells Town Hall was attended by the bishop and the Mayor of Wells Desmond Gripper and his wife Rosaleen.

On Monday, a large crowd gave Cheddar Male Choir and soloist Les Skidmore an excellent reception.

Bus services between Wells and Taunton, operated by First Southern National, will run on September 25.

The decision to reinstate the route was due to demands from mid-Somerset residents and the result of meetings between First Southern National, Somerset County Council, Atmos Limited, Mendip District Council and the health authority.

The new head of Wells Cathedral School, Elizabeth Cairncross, has her husband Andrew to thank for giving her a start on a teaching career.

He appointed her to her first job as an English teacher at King Edwards School, Whittley, Surrey. She formally took up her latest appointment this week and immediately wrote herself into the school's history books.

Mrs Cairncross is the first female head of the school, which was founded in 900 to educate choristers at the cathedral.