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Rodway, BRIDGWATER, TA5 2LR

This former TE is situated in Rodway having dated from the GPO era, ie before 1969. It was replaced by the larger TE across the road in the mid-1970s https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7599726 refers.

The entrance to Bridgwater College's Cannington Centre for Land Based Studies, on Rodway.

Situated in Rodway TA5 2LR, this TE dates from the mid-1970s having replaced the smaller TE across the road https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7599741 refers. It used to take the name Combwich, a village about two miles north of this location, and has the code WWCWIC. This TE is of a standard design common throughout the United Kingdom, they being built to take increases in telephone traffic. It now provides telephone and broadband services to approximately 1,417 residential and 81 non-residential premises in Cannington plus Combwich, Stockland Bristol and Stolford nearby. The numbering range of this TE is (01278) 65xxxx, the (01278) referring to the Bridgwater group of thirteen TEs.

Visible in Image, this mid C18 sandstone house http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-268867-1-cannington is the former Bridgwater Union home for pauper children.

Situated in a grass triangle at the junction of Rodway and Fore Street.

The war memorial stands on a traffic-encircled island at the end of Roadway. The Bridgwater and Taunton College site lies beyond the Henry Rogers almshouses. A committee was formed in early 1919 to create a memorial to the men who had not returned from foreign shores. Funds amounting to £274 10s 3d were raised; an architect was paid £5 5s 0d, and £252 2s 8d allotted to the memorial and its upkeep. A Mr Willis was paid £168 9s 0d to build the structure. Land owned by Philip Hales Pleydell-Bouverie of Brymore House was dedicated for the monument, which was unveiled on 11th November, 1921. However, more names had to be added after WWII and in 1957 the road had to be widened to allow heavy construction vehicles to work at the Hickley Point nuclear power station. The memorial is now about 2.5m west of its original point.

A sheltered seating area (with railings) and an A.E.D. The latter is a plastic dome type, not the more typical metal box.

Seating on High Street appears to be a modern affair, built of brick and stone to protect users. Curiously, the shelter has a set of folding railings.

Originally a house dating from the 1500s, Henry Rogers left a sum to help the poor in 1672 and so established the almshouses. Over the course of history, the houses also served as a prison and parish school, before resuming as accommodation in the nineteenth century. With the facilities being in a parlous state (piped water did not arrive until the 1950s), the almshouses were comdemned in 1967 and forced a major renovation. Grade II listed.