Rook Lane Blog
Category Archives: Around Frome
Looking for Musicians and Food Trucks
June 27, 2023
We are planning to open on Friday 7th July as part of Frome First Fridays between 6pm and 9pm (possibly later we will see how it goes) We are planning to open on the evening of Friday 7th […]
25 Years of Christmas
December 5, 2011
On Sunday afternoon, we strolled down to Catherine Hill – in the hope of picking up a couple of handmade Christmas presents for family and friends at the Christmas Artisan market. We walked past the Little Red Cafe […]
Life and soul of Somerset
October 25, 2011
Articles such as this one from the BBC are testament to the fact that Frome is a town worth investing in. Boasting three contrasting art galleries, a quirky cinema, two theatres and masses of wonderful independent shops, restaurants […]
Silver – The 25th Anniversary Exhibition
October 13, 2011
The Black Swan Arts celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. From its origin as a pub, it became derelict – and was then used for a variety of purposes before being recovered in the 1980s by David Short […]
The Westway Cinema
October 5, 2011
Last night I went to the wonderful Westway Cinema for the first time (*blush*). It was the recent fire, and the call for helpers to clear the rubble – in true Frome-spirit, dozens of townspeople came to the […]
Festivities in Frome
September 26, 2011
It is weekends – such as the one just passed – that remind us how magical the town of Frome is. On Saturday evening the town centre was illuminated by the Frome Carnival procession – marching majorettes twirled […]
The Brunel Broderers
September 21, 2011
Textile collective – The Brunel Broderers – have gathered their materials and arranged them in the lovely Silk Mill, Frome. Textiles, audio, installation and accessories galore – this varied exhibition is colourful and quirky: (all images from the […]
The importance of being an artist
August 31, 2011
I was strolling down Cheap Street during my lunch break – having completed my Rook Lane errands – when I bumped into Pete and Hilary – Frome residents, Rook Lane stewards, ex- headteachers, lovers of the arts, diggers […]
Defoe Digs Frome!
August 26, 2011
“The town of Froom… is so prodigiously increased within the last Twenty or Thirty Years, that they have built a New Church, and so many New Streets of Houses, and those Houses are so full of inhabitants, that […]
Ford Family Closing Party!!
July 29, 2011
Devastated by the famine in East Africa, and desperate to raise funds to help suffering children, Giles and Aubrey Ford have offered to auction off their artwork and donate a large proportion of the proceeds to charity. Father […]
