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 – May 8th 1869

Steps were being taken to form a horticultural society for Dunster and neighbourhood for the encouragement of amateurs and cottagers.

100 years ago – May 10th 1919

Wiveliscombe Cricket Club was to be revived. Mr F J Hawkins was willing to let the club have Court Garden Meadow for £12 a year, and the Brewery Cricket Club would hand over all its cricket material.

50 years ago – May 10th 1969

An outraged correspondent described an incident of “push and shove rudeness” in Minehead Post Office. There were two queues: one short, the other long. An elderly man, followed by a woman, left the long queue to barge to the front of the short queue, which then became the long queue. Others started jostling for front position at what was now the short queue … and so it went on

25 years ago – May 13th 1994

West Somerset’s first woman priest, the Rev Pamela Cuff, was to be ordained at Wells Cathedral this Sunday. A non-stipendiary assistant curate in the united benefice of West Quantoxhead, she had been conducting services at St Mary’s Kilve and could now give holy communion