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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In July 1860 when a Williton printer Samuel Coxlaunched the West Somerset Free Press the districtwas about to experience rapid and exciting change.Progress was in the air the world was opening up.Isambard Kingdom Brunel had planned a newrailway into West Somerset. Victorian Britain’sexpanding industries were hungry for iron orefrom the Brendon Hills. The old Royal Forest ofExmoor was finally being tamed for agriculture.The first tourists were already on Minehead’sbeaches.From its first edition the West Somerset Free Presstapped into this ‘advancing spirit and decade bydecade has faithfully reported the characters andevents that have shaped the district.West Somerset in the News for the first time bringsthese stories together with authentic extracts andillustrations from the pages of the Free Press givingfresh insight and detail to the well-known storiesand uncovering fascinating new stories which havelong been forgotten.West Somerset in the News reports on the bigdevelopments of the time the arrival of the railwaysin Victorian times the natural disasters at Watchetand Lynmouth the battles both to develop and topreserve Exmoor the hopes and fears for thenuclear plants at Hinkley Point.