The autobiography of Anthony Gibson, the former South West Regional Director of the National Farmers' Union. It includes the inside story of several farming crises, notably BSE and Foot and Mouth Disease. There are also chapters on cricket, cider, real ale and literature, all within a West Country context.
The story of the Somerset golf professional Ernie Foord who played arguably the most astonishing round in the history of the game, In 1912 he went round the Burnham & Berrow Golf Club's 18-hole championship links in 73 strokes, using only a single club, a putter.
This volume presents a corpus and discussion of seventy-one Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy containers from forty-nine sites across England dating to the seventh and possibly eighth centuries, and variously described as work boxes, needle cases, amulet containers or Christian reliquaries.