List of Contributors and Acknowledgements
A huge debt of thanks must go to those named below who helped us in the early stages of our project.
Our continuing thanks go to the many unnamed people whose contributions to the project, both now and in the future, are greatly appreciated.
- The Seavington Parish Council, The Seavington News, Branstons Potatoes
- Tom Mayberry MA, FSA, Dip Arch Ad, Somerset Heritage Officer
- Dr Robert Dunning BA PhD FSA FRHistS
- Anne Heeley MBE
- John Sullivan, Winsham Web Museum
- Somerset Museum Service
- Les Collett & Pauline Burr, South Somerset District Council
- Liz Randall, South Petherton History Society
- Martock Local History Group
- D J Wheadon, Somerset photographer, for allowing us to use photographs from his collection.
For donations of photographs and paintings and other historical information and research which we hope eventually to be able to put on the website our thanks go to:
- David Ades – Video of ‘Building of Millennium Hall and Opening’
- The Ash family – photos and memories
- Tony Beresford – Census Data and South Petherton Hundred Map
- Jean Blackstock (nee Pippin) – school photos and help with names
- Bev Bonning – Births Marriages and Deaths for both villages 1695 – 1898
- Lily Bonning and the Bonning family – photos and memories
- Pauline Brockett – (Poole and England Family)
- Bob Chamings – Seavington Hunt memories and photo
- Pam & Bill Collins – introductions
- Edna Critchlow – memories
- The England family – memories
- Laurie Ensor – photos
- John Forrest – photos
- Fullerton Family – photos
- Dee & Alistair Fyfe – photos and paintings
- Alan Graham – St Michael’s Church by Wheatley
- Michael Harrison – A short History of Seavington
- Edgar Hawkins – memories
- F Hopkins – from Canada – photos
- Martin Howell – photos
- The Hoyt Family – from USA originally from Seavington
- John Howes – memories
- Elizabeth Jacobs – photos
- Vivienne Killeen – mother Eva Lawrence lived in Seavington as a child
- Don Long – from New Zealand – relatives came from Seavington St Michael, South Petherton and Lopen
- Sid Male – photos and memories
- Jo Mills – historical information and maps
- Andrew Norton – Seavington Harriers/Hunt photos
- Angela Norton–Davies – School photos
- William Masters – memories
- Mary Paull – photos
- The Poole family and Alex Tarbun – memories
- Chris Reyland – old farming implements
- Scott family – photos
- Alan Swayne – Births Marriages and Deaths for both villages
- Carol Talbot – school photos and postcards of Seavington
- John & Jean Tudor – photograph of Middlefield Farm
- Suzette Vickery – family history
- Peter and Mary Wyatt – photos and memories
We have had email correspondence with many of these people which will be published soon on the Seavington Webmuseum to enable members of families here and abroad to contact each other.