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Was there a welcoming committee? #OnThisDay in 1836 Brunel visited Langport to survey the potential for a new Bow Bridge. He didn't stay, but he did recommend the construction of a bridge with wider arches. Opened in 1841, we're still using it today

Happy Birthday to Walter Bagehot - an amazing 199 years old today! Born in Langport, remembered worldwide as a great Victorian writer on finance and the constitution. We celebrate him langportheritage.org.uk/walter-bagehot

Samuel Stuckey, founder of Stuckey's Bank in Langport, died #OnThisDay in 1812. His business acumen and his partnership with the Bagehots laid the foundation of Langport's prosperity as a trading hub until railway transport ruined their maritime business

Asteroid 2901 was discovered #0nThisDay in 1973 Czech astronomer Lubos Kohoutek. Later it was named Bagehot after Walter Bagehot. Langport born & bred, but well known even in outer space! #Bagehot #Langport

Walter Bagehot died #OnThisDay in 1877 at the age of 51. You can read the moving account of his death written by his wife Eliza in her diary, in a new page added to our website langportheritage.org.uk/walter-bagehot… #Bagehot #Langport

Walter Bagehot's funeral took place #OnThisDay in 1877. The service was in St Mary's, Huish Episcopi because the parish church of All Saints', Langport was closed for restoration. You can read a detailed account here langportheritage.org.uk/walter-bagehot… #bagehot #langport

Gladstone comes to dinner! Bagehot's father in law James Wilson, editor of The Economist, held a dinner #OnThisDay in 1859 to celebrate Bagehot's essay on parliamentary reform. Guests included William Gladstone #bagehot Read more about Bagehot here langportheritage.org.uk/walter-bagehot

Bagehot moves in high circles as his influence grows. #OnThisDay in 1859 he and Eliza attended a party hosted by Gladstone at his residence on Carlton House Terrace. You can read more about Bagehot here langportheritage.org.uk/walter-bagehot

Digby Denham, Langport baker's son who became Premier of Queensland, visited his home town #OnThisDay in 1914. The town "had rather gone back", he said, but the Grammar School "had very markedly improved". Now this is reversed, the school is closed and the town is thriving!

Guy Barrington, Walter Bagehot's nephew, was born #OnThisDay in 1869. A new section has been added to the Bagehot section of our website, where you can read about his life. He can be described as the last of the Langport Bagehots. #Bagehot #Langport langportheritage.org.uk/walter-bagehot…

Margaret Thatcher pays tribute to Walter Bagehot #OnThisDay in 1986 at the launch of the last volumes of St John Stevas's Collected Works of Walter Bagehot, which are now available here langportheritage.org.uk/walter-bagehot… #bagehot

Wedding bells! #OnThisDay in 1858 Walter Bagehot married Eliza Wilson at Claverton, Bath. He wrote to his mother: 'the day was so gorgeous that I think it made people cheerful'. You can read more about how they met, fell in love and married, here langportheritage.org.uk/walter-bagehot… #bagehot

Langport Library took a step forward #OnThisDay in 1975 when it opened to the public in a Portakabin in Whatley. Only 19 years later it moved to its present permanent building. That's 'Somerset time' for you! #Langport

Happy birthday, Kelways! One of the oldest nurseries in the country. Only 174 years old today and still going strong. What an achievement! #Kelways

Walter Bagehot attended the opening of the Great Exhibition #OnThisDay in 1851. It took place in a huge structure called the Crystal Palace. He described it as 'a great fair under a cucumber frame'. #Bagehot langportheritage.org.uk/walter-bagehot

Langport saw a death as well as a birth #OnThisDay. In 1851 Kelways Nursery was founded, but sadly in 1937 the day also saw the last issue of the local paper, the Langport & Somerton Herald. A tragic loss for the community, not to mention for local historians!

The first part of Walter Bagehot's most important work, The English Constitution, was published #OnThisDay in 1865. It appeared in the first issue of Fortnightly Review, an influential magazine founded by Anthony Trollope among others. langportheritage.org.uk/walter-bagehot

Vincent Stuckey, head of Stuckey's Bank, founded in Langport, was buried #OnThisDay in 1845. 'Few have lived to a better purpose, fewer still have lived more beloved, or died more lamented'. Quite the tribute. langportheritage.org.uk/history/street…

James Kelway, founder of Kelways Nursery of Langport, died at his home, Gladioli Villa #OnThisDay in 1899. It's fitting that the Kelways Manual of Horticulture for that year features gladioli on its cover, James's favourite flower.

Fire at Huish Episcopi! #OnThisDay in 1807 a large fire broke out at Huish, destroying 6 houses and barns, stables and outhouses, & a large hay rick. No fire engines in those days!