The following is an incomplete list of what the Group owns. Please ask us if you’d like to borrow any of them, our only request being that you don’t lose it! Ring or email Will or Fergus, or contact us.
BOOKS
- From Flax to Factory, Flax and Hemp in South Somerset’s History, S A Buchanan, SIAS, 2008. Contains a lot of info on the Parrett Works and William Sparrow.
- Perfectly Pure, book on Somerset Breweries by Mary Miles, SIAS
- Somerset Roads, SIAS
- Water supply in Somerset SIAS.
- Old photos of Stoke sub Hamdon, published by their history group.
- Perfectly Pure, a directory of Somerset brewers. SIAS, 2006
- Somerset Roads, history of the Turnpike Trusts etc. SIAS
LOOSE PAMPHLETS etc
- Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Society newsletters and annuals.
- Somerset Industrial Archaeology Society bulletins, many mentions of Parrett Works
- 1934 Harry Hebditch catalogue.
FILES
- Photocopies of all Kellys Directories 1842-1939, all tax lists, lay subsidy 1327, 1542 etc.
- Sir Mervyn Medlycott’s transcription of all known tombstone, graves and monuments in the various churches and churchyards of Ash, Martock and Long Load
- Aerial photos of Martock, various dates.
- Photocopies of all 19th and 20th century Directories of Martock.
- Copies of early tax returns eg 1327 Lay Subsidy Roll.
- Collection of photos relating to Wm. Sparrow, iron founders.
DISCS etc
- 1841 Somerset census
- 1672 Visitation of Somerset (list gentry pedigrees)
- 1623 Visitation of Somerset (list gentry pedigrees)
- 193* Kelly’s Directory of Somerset
- 1830 Pigott’s Directory of Somerset
- 1873 Return of Owners of Land in Somerset
- Directory of Somerset
- 1792 The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, by John Collinson.
- Bites & Queries for Somerset & Dorset (miscellaneous old records of interest).
- 3 oral recordings by James Crowden of people in Wambrook.
ARTEFACTS
William Sparrow’s water diviner.