Following last week's story about the 1905 Bridgwater Carnival the Mercury has been contacted by a reader who has a story about the club in question.

David Peek said his grandfather Ernest Evett was licencee of the White Lion in the years leading up to the Great War and was there in 1911 when he was photographed outside. He appears in the charming snap alongside his daughter Vera on the same day his daughter Millie was born in the pub who became David's aunt.

Mr Evett later became Carnival secretary in the 1920s and was instrumental in bringing in the first squibs for the famed squibbing writes Mr Peek.

After service in the First World War Ernest changed careers and became the manager of the oil cake works on the docks, living in the end house by the lock gates and he became involved with the North Pole Carnival club.

Do you have carnival memories and old photos? Email harry.mottram@nqsw.co.uk