Author: Brian Smedley

In 1988 Smedley wrote the stage play ‘The Vernon Bartlett Show and performed it via his Sheep Worrying Theatre company at the Bridgwater Arts Centre.

The origins of Bridgwater renewing it’s Czech link go back to 1986 when Brian Smedley first researched the 1938 Vernon Bartlett connection and in 1987 wrote a book and a play about it. In […]

1994 had been a difficult year. Despite being the busiest so far there had been tensions within the society about the organisation which had come to a head with the resignations of a small […]

In 1993 we had run a very succesful and popular trip to Uherske Hradiste for the Kings Ride festival (Jizda Kralu). In 1994 it was attempted to repeat this. Our usual grass roots travellers, […]

Czechomania was the groups most ambitious project to date. It was devised on 28 March 1994 at a meeting of Smedley, Jo Cox, Cy Bartlett, Stuart Croskell and Mac McCausland. The idea was to […]

By 1994 Jana Hubena was pushing us to find a group that was compatible to her Agricultural College students. Despite there being an agricultural college here in Bridgwater the first group that approached us […]

The Bridgwater Czech-Slovak Friendship Society had been set up in 1991, achieved a formal twinning in 1992 and expanded its programme massively in 1993. 1994 was to be an even bigger programme, often back […]

In May 1993 the boomingly popular Bridgwater Czech Friendship society organised a major trip to Uherske Hradiste by minibus and by plane. Chair of Sedgemoor-Patrick Daniel, Mayor of Bridgwater John Turner and Chief Executive […]