Worle History Society has gathered some interesting and useful archive material. 

There is never time at Open Meetings for members to make use of the resources, hence the decision to add this new page to the site with details of what is available. 

When the list is complete, we hope to arrange a date for the research team to access the archives to test things out.  Then our members will be informed by email or telephone about the dates, times and venue for planned Research Days, when everything will be available for your use. 

Please note that we can only offer Research Days to current members, and the material is all relevant to the village of Worle and its immediate environs. Non members are welcome to contact us with enquiries and we shall do our best to help.

List of Research Material available to members

The Society's laptop, on which a great deal of material is stored.  There is also 
                     a range of CDs.  This facility is new and is being constantly
               updated and organised, so may be a bit messy at first!

The Society's publications, including books, booklets and pamphlets. 
                   See PUBLICATIONS on the topbar for full details.

Maps:          Ordnance Survey map revised in 1836 [A1 size]

                   Tithe map of the Parish of Worle A0 size and in full colour, produced
                   by Peter Johnson for the Society

Family Trees:  These are laminated A3 sheets of prominent local families, including
                       Bartlett, Bishop, Broadbere, Capell, Day/Parsley, Fry, Gould,
                       Lawrence, Lovell, Tripp.  All supplied by Brian Austin.

Topic Files as follows:

Census:       Transcripts for 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 all in
                    separate files

Street Directory:  Kelly's Directory for 1956, arranged in alphabetical order of
                    streets.

Worle's Listed Buildings:  Details supplied by English Heritage website, and
                     enhanced with use of photographs and background research.  Ongoing.

Village Walks:  File contains powerpoint handout sheets provided to walkers in the
                        2010 season of summer walks, with notes. Separate file from
                        Dave Hart covering the route and points of interest visited on the
                        2011 Summer Walk

People of Worle:  A file in alphabetical order of everyone and anyone who has lived
                      in Worle and contributed to village life.  This is embryonic and
                      constantly being built upon.  It will probably metamorphosise into an
                      index filing system, cross referenced to the family trees.

1953 Files:   There is a general file including minutes of Borough Council meetings 
                     referring to the village, minutes of Worle Cricket Club and WOB
                     programmes.
                     Quarterly files contain cuttings and articles from the Mercury in date
                     order, all referring to the village.

World War 2 Files:   Still several years to complete,  but at present we have 
                      1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942.                           
                      Material is arranged in date order, mainly taken from the Gazette
                      and the Mercury, but with other relevent additions, like minutes of
                      local organisations and personal notes.  These files contain much
                      more detail than the Annual Journals listed under PUBLICATIONS

Schools:   Copies of photographs used for the Open Meeting display, together with
                notes and general information covering schooling from 1865 to present. 
                Most information concentrates on Worle Infants School, Worle Junior
                School and Worle Senior School.  Head Teachers' logs and admission
                registers for Worle Infants' now available in digital form. The
                Comprehensive Schools and newer Primary Schools are also mentioned.

Worle Cricket Club:  Includes pictures from 1901 to 1950s and selected entries
                      from their Minutes Books [given by Johnnie Tucker].  Originals
                      available by special arrangement.

Worle Old Boys Football Club:  Includes copies of programmes [loaned by Eric
                      Maggs] covering mainly the 1950s, with pictures.  Some newspaper 
                      cuttings.

Bell Ringing:  St. Martin's ringers with information dating back 5 centuries and 
                    details from early 20th century minutes.

Fussell's Rubber Co. Ltd.  This contains the source material on which the
                     booklet is based, mostly contributed by the family of the founders,
                     and some taken from local newspapers.

Worle Home Guard:  Research note books used in the process of writing the book.

Weddings File:  Pictures and comments featuring Weddings which took place in
                         Worle, or had a close Worle connection.  Collected by Nadine
                         Kilvington

Methodist Chapel, now Community Centre:  File providing the history of the
                        chapel back to 1835, together with architects plans of the
                        extensions begun in 1965

We also have copies of publications generated by other folk, including:                 Stan Terrell's 'Milton and Old Worle'                                                    Gillian Moore's 'The Good Earth'                                                         Sharon Poole's 'Around Weston in Old Photographs'                                        Civic Society's 'Worle Conservation Area'                                    

A series of magazines published by the British Association for Local History entitled 'Local History News'