Radstock has a fascinating past : Would you be interesting in telling Radstock's history?

This photo - posted on the page of the North Somerset Railway & Radstock to Frome Railway Trust - shows the old incline up to Kilmersdon Colliery at Haydon. The rails at the bottom are still there.

The Kilmersdon incline and tramway hauled away coal which was being mined, at its peak, at a rate of 90 trams or 85 tonnes an hour. The track was constructed in 1877 and over the 160 yards travels a gradient of 1 in 4.

Radstock Nub News is keen to start a regular legacy column to bring that past to life - just small insights into local history- whether from the last century, or back just a few decades.

Hopefully it will entertain our readers, tell them things that many new to the town might not know, and perhaps help guide Radstock into the future.

If you were interested in writing a small column - we would also need a photo to go with it - we would be very interested in hearing from you.

Whether you are already interested in local history - or perhaps would like yourself to learn more as you write. It would only need be a few hundred words.

Please do get in touch with us here at Radstock Nub News.