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Working Widcombe

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on Widcombe people at work, TV producer Jessica Palmer, talks to us about the craze for adult her best-selling ‘Tangle’ book series.

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Group has a busy schedule of events for the coming months. There will be at least two walks. The first will be a repeat of the popular Four Mills of Widcombe walk, giving participants a chance to learn about the industrial heritage of the area. The second will involve Beating the Bounds of the old parish with snippets of local history on the way. For those who prefer their history a bit more sedentary, two talks are planned, the first on the fascinating and varied where you are activity you forget your problems and feel to the art of who colour are ultimate form believe a achieved completely from world – is the everyday with intricate around a containing ‘Tangle Bay’, magical each image worked into and colour outlets may lack that first sheet of find it a form the effects disability. My starting point. extend the add colour. history of St Thomas a Becket, one of Bath’s oldest Churches, the second exploring the largely hidden lives of Widcombe’s domestic servants. Other longer term projects include research on Perrymead and its many mysteries, as well as a military themed walk around Widcombe. The group also hopes to arrange celebrations of the bicentenary in 2023 of Prior Park Buildings and Cottages.

The very notion of colouring may still seem rather bizarre to many adults but the books seem to have tapped into a need. Groups and clubs of colouring fanatics have sprouted up everywhere and on social media literally thousands of colourists across the world link up to compare the unique pieces of artwork each has created from the illustrations in colouring books like the Tangle books.

Further suggestions for historical research, talks or walks are always welcome. Email danlyons1966@icloud.com.

■ Dan Lyons

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