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Yeovil Archaeological & Local History Society

Founded in 1954

Local Stories

Local Stories

These articles have been produced, by Jack Sweet and Jean Harper, from newspaper articles and his own recollections. They contain the language and opinions prevalent at the time and do not represent the Society’s views in any way.

Article
Sherborne to Yeovil – A Fatal Trap Accident
Dangerous Engines of Destruction
Yeovil – Mayor Making
Drinking at Martock 
Yeovil – Some Municipal Moments 
Yeovil – Files from the Western Gazette
Yeovil – Parachutes, The Press and Danny Boy
Yeovil – A Fatal Row Over Walnuts 
Yeovil – First World War Stories from the Home Front
Yeovil and the Boer War 
A Local Hero 
The Yeovil Cheese Robbery and Other Cases 
Yeovil at Sea 
Empire Day 1909
Dowlish Wake – From Africa’s Sunny Clime to the Yukon’s Frozen Wastes 
A November Wedding 
Compton Pauncefoot – St Andrew’s 
A Cruel Murder at Weymouth 
Villains and Heroes 
Lovely Women, Fair but False 
Poachers and Police 
A Mock ‘H’ Bomb Attack 
Wurts 
Public Eye 
Yeovil – September 1939 
The South Petherton Pig Nuisance 
Miss Betty Balfour Comes To Town 
South Somerset Snippets 
Yeovil in 2000? 
Two Glimpses Of Somerset In The 1860’s 
Old Somerset Customs and Sayings 
The Langport 
First Westland Crash – September 1917 
Royal Patronage – 1840 
Great Fire at Yeovil 
What Yeovil was like in the 1880’s 
The Wessex Boys’ Brigade – Inspection – 1909 
Yeovil School in 1948-9 
Yeovil School in 1954 

Upcoming Events 2025

Summer visits are arranged for MEMBERS ONLY in June, July and September 2025. Visits include a tour of historic Bridport and a return visit to the archaeological excavations at Cerne Abbas. For more information contact yalhs.coordinator@outlook.com

Friday 3rd October 7.15 pm - a talk by Bryn Hawkins titled 'From Boy to Man in the Somerset Coal Fields'. Non-members £2. For more information contact  yalhs.coordinator@outlook.com

Gallery

Painted-Room-Castle-Cary-2024-3-scaled The-Old-House-Castle-Cary-2024-1-scaled Members admiring the Painted Room in The Old House. The coal mine, Swansea.

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