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Gallery 2025


INTRIGUING THEME: At the beginning of October Backwell Camera Club had a hands-on evening with some table-top studio photography mostly black and white at the WI hall at Backwell crossroads. On Thursday, October 9, Barry Hill, of Frome Camera Club, will present Democratic Photography at the WI hall. Starts at 7.30pm and non-members are very welcome. Small fee on the door.
Both images copyright

YIPPY-KI-YAY: On Sunday afternoon and early evening, October 5, Wraxall charity journalist Heather Pickstock put together this night of cowboy capers and cider drinking evening at live music venue The Riff Corner, Clevedon. She sends a big thank you to comedy band Tex Braithwaite and The Biryani Brothers Wren's Pizza, Wild West Cider and everyone who came along to join the fun! The gin perhaps wasn't to our tasting but the 2-4-1 cocktails were amazing. Lovely to see the Nailsea contingent sampling the cider, leading the line-dancing and adding the magic thanks to our very own magic man Steve Burley (helped by his mates) on a blow up horse! If you would like Heather to help promote your company/event email heatherpickstock@icloud.com
October farmers' market
Nailsea Farmers' Market trades throughout the year, except in January, on the third Saturday of each month with a variety of food, drink, craft and guest community stalls.
Every month there are more 50 stalls booked by Somerset Farmers' Market filling the High Street with activity and bustle, music and weather as they welcome farmers, food producers, craftspeople and customers!
In our slideshow we have photos from the October market with the next dates being Saturdays November 15 and December 20.
There are other market day photos from other dates in our galleries.
Setting out their stalls some months are The Plants by Ogie Placido which featured in Garden News Magazine and Karen Osborne who mans the Made For You craft stall which has had a slot on Really TV.
The market continues to expand and is the biggest in North Somerset and beyond with many regulars returning every month.
It opens 9am-1pm, all along the High Street which will be closed to traffic all day.
At No 65 High Street there is a Q&A information desk manned by Nailsea town councillors from 10am-noon. We spot James Tonkin, Ian Presland, Graham Parson and Rod Lees.
Councillors still don't have a date for the opening of the banking hub (soon we hear) or when the Millennium clock will be back working - could be the witching hour at Halloween or when GMT is restored and all timepieces 'fall' back an hour both at the end of this month.
But the bright new livery outside No65 is almost complete just some lettering to be painted.
Nailsea in Bloom, Nailsea Musicals and Nailsea Climate Emergency community groups all had a stall this month promoting poppy and panto sales plus a save the planet message.
And Nailsea MicroPub had early doors bringing good cheer from 10am.

Into the throne room of mountain gods
On Thursday, October 23, Backwell Camera Club hosts a zoom presentation by the highly acclaimed mountaineer and photographer, George Robertson, entitled Into The Throne Room of the Mountain Gods.
George said: 'My talk is a mix of travel, street, adventure and landscape photography and has been constructed to take the audience on the journey with me.
"The images tell the story of life on a mountaineering expedition to a remote and beautiful part of the world.
"There are many photographic challenges along the way and my approach to these is also discussed."
George will take his audience through 'a three week mountaineering expedition to the remote regions of Gilgit - Baltistan and the Karakoram mountains; a challenging travel/mountaineering photography journey over three weeks, at high altitude, on the Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram mountains of Northern Pakistan where four of the worlds 14 - 8000m peaks lie.'
This promises to be a riveting presentation and, as usual, non members are invited to attend for a small door fee.
Venue is the WI hall at Backwell Crossroads.
Start time is 7.30pm.
presentation by George Robertson
Spooky happenings on Halloween
end of October 2025
Bonfire night at Nailsea & Backwell RFC
Saturday, November 1
PHOTOS: Mark Raby, Sam Allen and rugby club volunteers - thank you very much for sharing
Remembrance photos from Nailsea
November 2025


WE REMEMBER: Thank you to everyone who shared there photos including Christians Together in Nailsea & District, North Somerset MP Sadik Al-Hassan, Nailsea & Backwell RFC and readers of Nailsea People




















































































































