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Another wall with a miner and pigeon theme. Local people have created the pigeon mosaics, along with a couple of ceramic tiles with poetry on them. Curiously, the latter also have eight figure O.S. map references on them too.

Bath Road bisects Peasedown St John and contains most of its shops and services. On the right are the premises of the former 'Daily Bread' bakery (which did not long survive a bad food hygiene rating in 2018). Beyond it are the Zodiac Hair Studio http://zodiac-hair-studio.edan.io/ and the Barber Zone https://barber-zone-peasedown-st-john.business.site/ ; the latter replacing a coffee shop which was presumably killed off by closure in the pandemic.

Also the Fosse Way. The post office is just beyond the hair salon and the vet's. Not only is Peasedown St John one of the largest villages around, it must also possess one of the widest range of facilities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasedown_St_John#Facilities_and_amenities of any village - in fact, had it a cinema or theatre, plus larger supermarkets, it would probably qualify as a town.

Dating from 1874 http://www.peasedownmethodist.co.uk/index.php/aboutus/history/7-110thanniversary , and on the Fosse Way opposite Braysdown Lane.

Peasedown St John is bisected by the old Roman Road, and had grown around it. Here is an old Edward VII letterbox, founded by W.T. Allen, set into the wall.

Peasedown and the surrounding area has a history of coal mining in the past. One of the great interests of the miners used to be pigeon racing. Part of the wall on the Fosse Way is given over to a mural depicting these two threads of village life. Community artist Andrew Bolton has many years of helping people to find their creativity in local projects and this is one. By getting the villagers to make small mosaics of pigeons he has put them on several buildings along the main road.

One of two in this large and busy village, which has a wide range of shops. The Pigeon mural on the gable is one of a number of pigeon mosaics (the pigeons in the mural are mosaics) scattered throughout the village; "two miners release pigeons that are displayed around the village" http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/publicartcatalogue/detail/95. The artist is Andrew Bolton.

Complete with the mural on the old building beside it. See Image] for a better look.

Peasedown St.John has many attractive features.