Bob Bell recalls moving to the deep West Somerset countryside many many years ago
Martin Hesp
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Bob Bell recalls moving to the deep West Somerset countryside many many years ago
Sitting out the Lockdown in California, Bob Bell reminisces over the marvels of Minehead in the 1960s
This page introduces a new series based on the diaries and notes of Bob Bell, a British blues band manager who toured the USA for a quarter of a century with Roomful of Blues, one of the most iconic R&B bands on the planet
A century ago local families would buy 100 herrings for six old pence (2.5pence) to salt down for the winter. But catches gradually declined and during the 1970s the herring all but disappeared, with the blame laid on over-fishing in the Atlantic and North Sea.