No 15 - Nailsea and District Local History Society

caption reads “Every vat at this big cider maker’s has its ownname. On average, every vat holds 10,000 gallons. Britain drinks20,000,000 gallons of cider a year. So you can work out howmany vats like this are needed to store the year’s cider supplies”.The last paragraph mentions that if you follow the farm cartsdragging the red and green, yellow and brown loads of applesback to the farm, the horse will lead to the cider - house. You’llrecognise it by the old casks lying about outside. But you’ll knowyou are coming to it long before that by the heavy perfume ofapple juice in the air. It’s the sweetest and most penetrating ofall the autumn smells.This reminder of times past brings us to the following articlewhich shows that 25 years later certain aspects of Nailsea werestill the same: -Where has the smell gone?by Bid WheelerI left Nailsea in 1969 having finished 7 years at Nailsea GrammarSchool, and only returned to live herein 1991, and one of themost noticeable changes was the smell of the place - it no longerhad one!As a girl in the 1960’s I lived in Tickenham and travelled toNailsea Grammar School by bus, getting off at the stop in HighStreet just near the Queens Head, then walking down the pathopposite through the archway which still remains besideReflections, Hairdressers, to Station Road and into MizzymeadRoad which was built then to only just beyond the school mainentrance.On the homeward leg of the journey, I and one other pupil usedto walk to the stop near the Royal Oak to enable us to get a seat