Bees: the Friendly route
Keith Wedmore reflects on bees, tradition and family
Wedmores have kept bees for hundreds of years. When I lived in north Somerset, Jane and I went to Portishead Meeting. Most of the gravestones are Wedmores. I spent a few days searching records of where Wedmores had lived. I found some places where they might, in recent memory, have died. I knocked on the doors of some elderly people. I questioned a woman. Did she remember a Wedmore? Yes, she did. Where did he keep his bees? Did she know? Yes, she did; and she told me. This pursuit became most displayed in my grandfather: EB Wedmore, CBE. Grandpa was president of the British Beekeepers Association until his death in 1956. He also wrote A Manual of Beekeeping for English-speaking Beekeepers. Prompted by him, I have kept bees since I was twelve.
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