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WELCOMEto Yeovil's Virtual Museum |
Welcome
to Yeovil's
Virtual Museum. This
is a work in
progress -
unfunded and
free-to-use -
created to
record much of
the history of
Yeovil,
Somerset,
England (before
about 1970).
Viewed in 139 countries with over SIX MILLION page views, this website contains more than 3,000 pages (equivalent to over 15,000 A4 printed pages) including over 14,150 images.
The 'Themes' in the various navigation bars gather pages into themes while the 'A-to-Z' matrix links lead to listing pages starting with each respective letter, plus some special features that are only accessed from this page.
PAGE UPDATES - 7 days of page updates, latest at the top.
- Three Choughs Hotel - Yeovil Trade Tokens and Checks - Turnpike Commission
- Yeovil's Starfish Site - Abbess of Syon
- Yeovil Seals - Friendly Societies
- Red Lion Lane - 1831 Reform Riot - WJ & EG Ricketts
- 1 & 3 Princes Street - Carpenters' Arms
- Yeovil People - Charles Pitcher
- John Neal - Odeon Cinema - Yeovil's Oldest Buildings
MAJOR THEMES
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People
Discover more than 530 personalities who made Yeovil the town it is today.
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Places
Streets, courts, yards, buildings, etc. If it was in Yeovil it's probably here.
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Yeovil's Pubs
The history of Yeovil's hostelries - all 147 of 'em
plus 104 beerhouses.
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Yeovil at Work
Earning a crust - commerce and industry in Yeovil.
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Yeovil at Play
Sports, events, celebrations, and so forth in Yeovil.
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Trades and Traders
The shops and shop keepers of yesteryear.
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Yeovil at War
Yeovil's and Yeovilians' response to war.
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Education in Yeovil
Learning in Yeovil from Dame schools onwards.
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Leather & Gloving
The mainstay industries of Yeovil for centuries.
THE History of Yeovil
Also included in this website, separate from the A-to-Z listings, is a series of essays outlining the History of Yeovil through time. Click here to read..