Yeovil Memories
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A01=Jack William Sweet
Art Architecture & Photography
Author_Jack William Sweet
Biographies & Memoirs
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DNC
Category=NL-BM
Category=NL-WQ
Category=WQH
COP=United Kingdom
Cultural History
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Format=BC
History
HMM=234
IMPN=Amberley Publishing
ISBN13=9781445610610
Journals & Letters
Local & Urban History
PA=Available
PD=20120715
Photography
POP=Chalford
Price=€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Amberley Publishing
Subject=Local Interest- Family History & Nostalgia
Subject=Memoirs
WG=304
WMM=165
Product details
- ISBN 9781445610610
- Weight: 304g
- Dimensions: 165 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2012
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: Chalford, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Yeovil Memories covers a wide range of stories, from a tragic drowning in the River Yeo in 1856, the hardships of the savage winter of 1861 and that of two families who lost their cottages in a fire in February 1906, the lucky escape of a Westland test pilot as his aircraft broke up in mid-air in August 1934, and the top of the music charts of August 1952, to pop concerts in the Liberal Hall in 1965.
Jack Sweet seeks to jog the collective memory of Yeovil’s past, reliving memories, good, bad and occasionally downright awful (at least for those who had the misfortune to experience one and remain to tell the tale).
Perhaps the Californian poet Clarency Urmy (1858-1923) summed it up;
‘Old Songs are best - how sweet to hear.
The strains of home and memory dear!
Old books are best - how tale and rhyme
Float with us down the stream of time!’
Jack William Sweet has lived all his life in Yeovil, where he was born. After leaving the RAF in 1958 he worked for thirty four years' with Yeovil Borough Council and later the South Somerset District Council before taking early retirement. His passion for history has inspired this prolific author to write numerous articles for local publications as well as many books including Shocking Somerset Murders of the Nineteenth Century and Shocking and Surprising Somerset Stories. Although retired Jack undertakes voluntary work for the Museum of South Somerset. He is also a keen photographer and has travelled extensively.
