The 2019 Yeovil Historical Calendar is available at £6.00 each from:
Yeovil Tourist Information Centre, Petter’s Way;
South Somerset District Council Brympton Way Reception;
The Emporium, Princes Street;
Somerset & Dorset Family History Society, Peter Street
Community Heritage Access Centre 01935 462886
Featuring The Robbins Glove Factory Ladies Football Team and Percy Winsor supplied Ferguson tractor
Thank you for your support and we wish everyone a Happy Christmas and peaceful New Year.
The Community Heritage Access Centre (CHAC) is working in partnership with Yeovil Library on Saturday 8th December 2018 as part of the “Christmas Workhouse Theme.”
CHAC will be present from 11am until 3pm with story telling from 2.15pm.
Please see the attached poster for more details.
CHAC is contributing at least one object that may have seen use in Yeovil Workhouse and here is a close-up – find out more on Saturday!
We also have an image of the “Matron of Yeovil Workhouse” Caroline Mary Wilton (nee Craske), matron of the workhouse, c1880-1885.
Our Christmas image from our 2019 Yeovil Calendar shows Father Christmas at the Plummer Roddis Department Store in the mid 1950s.
Copies of the 2019 Yeovil Calendar are available at £6.00 each – which helps with our work at the Community Heritage Access Centre, caring for 30,000 objects and 6,000 photographs.
Further details are available from 01935 462855 – or visit Cartgate Tourist Information Centre; Yeovil Tourist Information Centre, Petters Way; South Somerset District Council Brympton Way Reception or the Emporium, Princes Street, Yeovil.
Somerset & Dorset Family History Society, Peter Street, Yeovil is another location.
Community Heritage Access Centre 