The Queen’s fifth coin portrait – the first to be designed by a Royal Mint engraver in over 100 years This change of royal portrait will make 2015 a vintage year for UK coins, and it will be hugely exciting for us all to see the new design appear on the coins we use every […]
The West Somerset Railway is England’s longest “heritage” railway, running steam trains between Bishops Lydeard (near Somerset’s county town of Taunton. M5 Junction 25) and the Bristol Channel Coastal resort town of Minehead. Along the 20 miles (32km) of route the trains pass through the Quantock Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and along […]