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View of Yeovil from newton hill
by Edward Holton Buckler
About the artist
Edward Holton
Buckler
(occasionally
Edward Hotton
Buckler) was an
artist and
lithographer. He
was born in
Spitalfields,
London in 1822,
the son of
traveller
William Buckler.
On 26 October
1854, at St
Martin in the
Fields, London,
he married Eliza
Sophia Laity,
ten years his
junior. They had
several
children:
Florence,
Edward, Henry,
Amy, Eleanor,
Edith and Ethel.
His second wife,
Edith, was 39
years his
junior.
Although he is usually described as flourishing in the 1840s and 1850s, this lithograph by him entitled "View of Yeovil from Newton Hill" clearly dates from after the Yeovil Town Station opened in 1861. Indeed, he gave his occupation as an artist and lithographer in the 1891 census, when he was aged 69. He died in Hackney, London, in the summer of 1893, aged 72.
About the lithograph
This
hand-coloured
lithograph was
drawn by Edward
Holton Buckler
(1822-1893) and
published in
Yeovil by
Thomas Willy
Vincent
(1832-1918).
It is almost certainly the first illustration featuring Yeovil Town Station and Station Road. Similarly, it is the only known image of Stars Lane House and is also probably the earliest depiction of the footbridge, removed in the 1960s, over the railway tracks at the bottom of Stars Lane.
The lithograph image is 10½" x 8" (265mm x 200mm).
From my
collection
This hand-coloured lithograph, entitled "View of Yeovil from Newton Hill" overlooking the new Yeovil Town Railway Station was made about 1861 (clearly just after the Town Station opened). Drawn by Edward Holton Buckler, it was published by Thomas Willy Vincent of Yeovil.
From my
collection
This enlargement of the previous lithograph shows the detail of the train and station tracks and buildings much clearer. Although there seems little evidence of the town gas works (completed in 1833) which would have been in the top left quadrant, behind the lone station building, the triple-roofed gas works office (lately the St Margaret's' Hospice premises and currently vacant) are visible.
From my
collection
This enlargement of the lithograph shows the newly-built Station Road, complete with a coach of railway travellers, running across the field that lay between Middle Street and the new station. This is, of course, the earliest image of Station Road.
From my
collection
This enlargement of the lithograph shows the view looking to Stars Lane with the footbridge over the new railway tracks at its southern end. In the corner of the field to the left of Stars Lane is the only house at the time - Stars Lane House. This is the only known image of Stars Lane House.
