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2021
MIDDLE STREET, YEOVIL IN 1956
South Somerset
Heritage Collection
2021 calendar featuring images and
associated artefacts from our
heritage collection
GOING TO SEED
This fascinating image from the 1920s is just one of over 5,000 stored at the South
Somerset Heritage Collection and shows workers at B Chudleigh & Sons of Pen
Mills posing for a photograph on Sherborne Road. It is interesting to note that
their delivery vehicles also included a horse and cart. The company, listed in the
local Kelly's Directory of the time as “millers, corn, coal, cake, seed and manure &
forage merchants”, were also well known for their resident chatty parrot!
The sack of farm seed - one of 30,000 artefacts held in our collection - originates
from Lock & Son, “nurseryman & seedsman”, who were based nearby in Hendford.
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New Year's Day
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January 2021
Bank holiday (Scotland)
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ON THE RIGHT TRACK
Martock Station was operational on the Yeovil branch of the
Great Western Railway between 1853 and 1964 before becoming
a victim of the Beeching cull. The hat, a size 7½ from 1962, is the
one worn by the last-ever station master at the station.
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February 2021
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KEEP TAKING THE TABLETS
A group of people gather around an itinerant pedlar outside the Medical
Hall by the Borough in Yeovil around 1890. The building had long been
established as a chemist and local historian Leslie Brooke recorded that in
1882 it housed Maggs & Son, where Thomas Charles Maggs also practiced
dentistry. The pill box came from Holman, Ham & Co Ltd who had
premises at both 7 Park Road and 11 Wyndham Street in Yeovil.
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1 2 3 4 5 6
St David's Day
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
March 2021
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
St Patrick's Day
Bank holiday (NI only)
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
UNDER ATTACK
Yeovil was hit by several delayed-action bombs during a Second
World War air raid on the evening of Good Friday, 11 April 1941.
These destroyed the Medical Hall (now the site of Burger King)
and the Corn Exchange behind King George Street (now the
Halifax Bank). Tragically Patrol Officer Charles Gillard of the
Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) was killed when one of the bombs
exploded as he was fighting the blaze. A memorial plaque can be
seen today on the remains of the Corn Exchange. The incident was
recorded in a watch diary by an AFS colleague who was a
laboratory technician working for Pittards.
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3
Good Friday
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Easter Monday
(not Scotland)
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
April 2021
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
St George's Day
25 26 27 28 29 30
UP THE WORKERS
Demonstrators gather in Stoke sub Hamdon on their way to join a rally
supporting George Mitchell of the National Agricultural Workers Union,
at the “frying-pan” at Ham Hill, around 1910. Yeovil was a major centre
of the gloving industry and the rights of gloving workers were likely
represented on the march as well.
Our collection includes many tools of the trade as well as examples of
the gloves produced, including a pair made by the (still operational)
Southcombe Glove Company in Stoke sub Hamdon for the Festival of
Britain, which took place 70 years ago this month.
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Early May Bank Holiday
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
May 2021
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
Spring Bank Holiday
GOD SAVE THE KING
Hundreds of schoolchildren gather at St John’s churchyard in Yeovil
to celebrate the coronation of King George V on 22 June 1911.
The commemorative medallion was presented by Henry Stiby,
who was Mayor of Yeovil between 1904 and 1905. An ironmonger
with Thomas Denner by trade, Stiby was also a keen amateur
photographer and we have many of his pictures in our collection.
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June 2021
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27 28 29 30
A STITCH IN TIME
Middle Street in Montacute, here pictured in 1910 looking
towards the King’s Arms pub, has changed relatively little in
the century since - although the confectioner's store is no
longer there. One relic of the village from the 19th century
is this alphabet sampler produced by Mary Ellen Cox.
Needlework samplers were popular works of embroidery or
cross stitching produced as a “specimen of achievement”.
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July 2021
Bank holiday (NI only)
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
Labourers at work in 1897 constructing an underground reservoir on
Summerhouse Hill to serve Yeovil’s growing demand for water. This had
a capacity of 1.25million gallons, with a second reservoir on Hendford
Hill holding another 800,000 gallons. These, however, soon proved
insufficient and were eventually replaced in 1955 by Sutton Bingham
Reservoir, which has a capacity of around 650million gallons (2,600
million litres). With a somewhat smaller capacity, but of no less
importance, is this 19th century wooden water canteen from our
collection, which was used by foot soldiers to carry water.
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Summer bank holiday
(Scotland only)
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
August 2021
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
Summer bank holiday
(not Scotland)
M
CHEESE AND WINE PARTY
The famous brand of St Ivel was created in Yeovil by the firm of Aplin &
Barrett, who used to be based in Newton Road in Yeovil. Producers of the
renowned St Ivel cheese, they used a number of local landmarks in their
advertising campaigns, including Brympton D’Evercy House, near Yeovil.
The manor, built of ham stone and onced described as “the most beautiful in
England”, was built between 1220 and 1325 and was, over the years, home to
some of Somerset's best known families - the Stourtons, Sydenhams and
Fanes. More recently, in the 1980s, the Clive-Ponsonby-Fanes established a
vineyard and distillery for wine and apple brandy.
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September 2021
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WE ARE SAILING
Sunday School scholars at the Pen Mill Methodist Chapel in Lyde
Road in Yeovil are pictured here with their “Sailing Boat of Hope”
sometime around the period of the First World War (1914-18).
Leslie Brooke's “The Book of Yeovil”, published in 1978, records
the chapel having being opened in 1889 and then taken down in
1983. The Preston Road Methodist Church itself celebrated its
50th anniversary in 1988 with this commemorative mug.
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3 4 5 6 7 8 9
October 2021
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24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31YOU NEED A FRIEND
This picture of St Mary's Church in East Chinnock was taken by the local
amateur photographer Henry Stiby in about 1880. Today the church features
stained-glass windows in the nave and chancel that were designed and made by
Gunther Anton, a prisoner of war held in Yeovil during the Second World War.
In 1989 they were dedicated by George Carey, the Bishop of Bath and Wells
(and a future Archbishop of Canterbury). The East Chinnock Friendly Society
Banner pictured reflects a time before 1911 (when National Insurance payments
were introduced) when villagers made regular payments into a society fund that
was used to help the sick and pay for funeral expenses and would be proudly
displayed during the annual “Club Day” parade around the village.
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1 2 3 4 5 6
November 2021
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30
St Andrew's Day
Bank holiday (Scotland)MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE
The annual Christmas displays at Denners department store used to be a
popular part of the festive season in Yeovil and usually included choirs, a Santa,
sleigh and reindeers, or - as pictured here - two ballerinas. Following the
recent closing down of the Beales store (which succeeded Denners) some
archive material reflecting the Denners years was donated to our collection
courtesy of Beales, including this fun invitation to a Christmas party.
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December 2021
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Christmas Day
26 27 28 29 30 31
Boxing Day Bank holiday Bank holiday New Year's EveCover 2022 calendar
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Jan Feb Mar Apr
This photograph of
Middle Street in Yeovil
was taken in 1956.
Marks and Spencer
Ltd subsequently
moved to larger
premises on the May Jun Jul Aug
opposite side of the
road and the original
site is now occupied
by WH Smith and
Sons.
Sep Oct Nov Dec
Yeovil connections 2021 Contact us Follow us
This calendar was produced by staff and volunteers SSDC Lufton Depot Website www.southsomerset.gov.uk
at the South Somerset Heritage Collection in Yeovil 7 Artillery Road
(formerly known as CHAC - the Community Lufton Community Heritage Access Centre
Heritage Access Centre). Yeovil
The collection holds over 5,000 images and 30,000
Somerset @CHACYeovil
artefacts covering all aspects of South Somerset's BA22 8RP
heritage. Photographs of Yeovil and South Somerset chacyeovil
are always gratefully received as donations.
01935 462855
To view the collection - which is open to the public
by appointment only - or if the photographs email
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