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.
The 2019 Celebrating Yeovil Calendar is now available at £6.00 each – with a new theme of uniting each photograph with an associated object from the CHAC Collection.
For more details – call (01935) 462886 or email
heritage.services@southsomerset.gov.uk
Another busy, varied and exciting week since our last posting from South Somerset District Council’s Community Heritage Access Centre.
In our last week before Christmas, we have enjoyed the company of our volunteers on our annual volunteer Christmas Lunch held in Montacute and the Team of Yeovil College Students looking at possible photographs for a new CHAC leaflet.
Enquiries this week included a researcher from Nottingham looking for copies of the 1928 Ordnance Survey 1:500 Scale Map of Yeovil, with a particular focus on Yeovil Town Station – as they are building a scale model. We also used relevant sections of the 1961 aerial survey of Yeovil to show Yeovil Town Station from above and the layout of the railway lines to and from the Station. We hope to scan the suitable maps shortly. We also wondered why someone from Nottingham would be making a model of Yeovil Town Station – and it turns out, they used to live in South Western Terrace, Yeovil, opposite the Town Station.
Donations this week feature a Kelways of Langport Gladioli Catalogue from 1958. The standing of Kelways in the Community was underlined by the opening paragraph:
“Our Reputation in this Country at the head of actual Raisers and Growers as well as Exhibitors of Gladioli for 100 years is a guarentee of the Quality of those which we offer herewith.”
This was also notable, for the intiguing items we found inside; namely a small advertisement for Kelway’s own brand of weedkiller “The Kelway KilWeed Non-Poisonous Powdered Weed Killer – No danger, except to weeds – of which it makes a clean sweep. The Best of all Weed Killers” and pencil written instructions of how to care for cucumbers.
We also offer some seasonal, ‘Yeovil’ Christmas Cheer with our small bird-shaped, (possibly Robin!) glove-pattern decoration cutter!
Thank you to all those that have helped CHAC this year and we look forward to 2016 – Best wishes of the Season!
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