THIS photo shows children using the recreation field at the rear of Grange Avenue and doing their best to win during a sports day.

The three girls in the photo are Pearl Baker, Maureen Slater and Carol Storey.

The church used to provide forms of teaching to children and their parents. But in 1841, The Schools Sites Act allowed for the conveyance of land so that a school could be built.

Five years ago December 22, 2005 BAY Centre bosses were celebrating after learning they could revitalise their base – after enough money was raised by Burnham charities and generous Weekly News readers.

A SON saved his dad’s life after he suffered a heart attack in the back of an ambulance.

Keith Gough, the area’s superintendent for the St John Ambulance, put his training into action when dad Peter suffered a heart attack on the way to hospital for severe back pain - which meant he was unable to travel by car.

Fifteen years ago December 22, 1995 CHRISTMAS came early for a local organisation which aimed to make life easier for people with disabilities – with a surprise cheque from the National Lottery Charities Board.

The Sedgemoor Association for Handicapped People, which was at the heart of the Morland Project in Highbridge, had been picked to receive £15,183.

And organisers said the Christmas windfall would be spent on providing a proper car park area at the Morland Road complex – a job it had been trying to fund for more than ten years.

THE Howard family of Highbridge celebrated when soldier son Nigel came home for Christmas from the bleak mountains of strife-torn Bosnia.

Nigel, 22, who was recently made up to Lance Corporal in the Second Division, Light Infantry, was among troops from the South-West overseeing the uneasy truce reinforced by the previous week’s peace accord.

25 years ago December 25, 1985 THE future of Burnham’s Marine Lake – then generally regarded as an eyesore – came once again into public discussion after the suggestion was mooted to Sedgemoor District Council that it could be restored as a tourist attraction on the South Esplanade.

One of Burnham’s leading citizens, Admiral Sir Mark Pizey, described it “as the best bit of news I have heard for some time.”

JOB losses in Sedgemoor in 1984/85 were horrifying, according to district council chairman Norren Ellis-Jones.

In her foreword to the council’s annual report and accounts, she said: “Further job losses during this year were horrifying and, at the close of the year in March, 1985, unemployment numbers in the Sedgemoor area had reached 4,230.”