History Blogs
Working Memories Frome
Home in Frome, the popular community history group, records and celebrates the changing life of...
Discover Frome’s past with interactive walking app
A free app that brings Frome’s streets to life through voices and sounds is giving residents and...
Join in with a history sound walk around Frome
Discover a piece of Frome’s history with a fascinating walk following in the footsteps of Emma...
Last chance to see Frome’s Casting the World Exhibition
There are just a few days left to see this extraordinary exhibition which tells the story of J.W....
Historic J.W Singer sign given a facelift
On Sunday 21st July Camilla Rose, traditional signwriter and gilder will be re-gilding the sign...
Explore Frome on Market Sunday
To launch the new guided walks our guiders will explore Frome and lead walks every half an hour...
Guided Walks
Discover Frome has launched regular light and informative guided walks, which will take...
Kings in Frome
In preparation for a new series of walks Frome Guided Walks, our guides heard from Annette Burkitt...
New Exhibition at Black Swan Arts
The Black Swan Arts is hosting a major new exhibition featuring the work of forty-three...
The Boyle Cross
It is in the Frome Almanac of 1869 that the first mention is made of the Boyle Cross. This...
Alice Seeley, Lady Harris
A plaque has been inaugurated at 3 Merchants Barton for Alice Seeley by the Frome Society for Local...
Camille Claudel and the Singer’s Foundry: A Rodin Connection in Frome
I have been intrigued by this photograph of John Webb Singer and his family since I first came...
Frome’s Cockey Lamps
Walking through Frome, you can spot a key sign of Frome’s past: the distinctive Cockey...
Frome’s Warm Welcome
As early as September 14th 1914 the Somerset Standard reports the arrival of the first Belgian...
Poetry on the Millennium Green
We are lucky in having such an abundance of green spaces in Frome. One of those, only a stone’s...
Thomas Bunn and his vision for Frome!
At the weekend, as the Frome Half Marathon runners swept down the hill into the market place, the...
The Lions from Frome in Cape Town
With the arrival of a new bronze statue of a lion at Longleat recently, cast in the Western Cape,...