EACH week in the Free Press we look back at what made the news 150, 100, 50 and 25 years ago. Here is a sample of the items featuring in the This Was The News column this week.

150 years ago – November 6th 1869

The overseer and churchwardens of the parish of Fiddington appeared at Williton and were fined £2 each for failing to supply a list of persons liable to serve on juries.

100 years ago – November 8th 1919

Minehead UDC decided to authorise Police Superintendent Perry to prosecute people whose chimneys caught fire.

50 years ago – November 8th 1969

After 14 years as a one-day event on the Memorial Ground, Watchet Flower Show was to “go inside” and be staged in a local school hall. Retiring chairman Mr A A Pearse said the decision was made “purely and simply through lack of helpers”.

25 years ago – November 11th 1994

A lawn was swallowed up during the worst night of flooding for years. Mrs Val Travers, of Park Lane Close, Carhampton, said her garden looked as if it had been hit by a small earthquake, with a hole that dropped nearly 8ft, and 4ft wide in places. Even surrounding hedges dropped by several feet.