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Home » PUBLIC SERVICES MEMORIES

In this section of the website you will find interviews with Frome people about their work in  local public services.

 

PUBLIC SERVICES MEMORIES

  • Gerald Franks

    Gerald Franks discusses his work at the Frome and District Day Centre

    Gerald Franks was one of the forces behind the setting up of the Active Living Day Centre which currently runs twice a week at Frome Football Club

  • Gerald Franks talks about his time as a special constable

    Gerald Franks has a long history of volunteer work in the Frome community. Here he recalls his duties as a special constable

  • Sue Palmer

    Sue Palmer looks back at her Frome-based career in health care

    Sue Palmer worked as a nursing assistant at the Selwood Hospital and later became a practice manager with the Frome Medical Practice

  • Gerald Quartley

    Gerald Quartley remembers his work as a railway signalman

    Gerald Quartley explains how he first went to work for British Rail and recalls his job at the Rodden Road signal box in Frome

  • Ray Trowbridge

    Ray Trowbridge remembers his time with St John Ambulance

    Ray Trowbridge describes how he progressed from being a St John Ambulance cadet as a boy to becoming a divisional superintendant

  • Three Frome librarians discuss the changes at Frome Library

    Jane Evans, Wendy Miller-Williams and Mary Henderson talk about the changes that came about when the new Frome Library opened

  • Trevor Weston

    Trevor Weston gives an account of his career with Frome Post Office

    Trevor Weston worked for the Post Office for forty years. Here, he looks back at customers, job changes, and the 1971 strike

  • David Barnes

    David Barnes remembers his work as a postman in Frome

    David Barnes recalls starting work as a telegram boy and doing his National Service before returning to Frome Post Office

  • Anne Wallis

    Anne Wallis looks back at her work with children and young families

    Anne Wallis is a psychologist who worked in the Child Guidance Clinic in Trowbridge and helped set up the Frome Family Centre

  • Elain Pugsley

    Elaine Pugsley recalls her time as a young mother and playgroup volunteer

    Elaine Pugsley talks about how she began working as a volunteer after she moved to Frome and took her son to the playgroup at Christ Church

  • Sarah Bullmore

    Sarah Bullmore discusses children's services and Christ Church School

    Sarah Bullmore talks about working with different agencies and the setting up of the Children's and Healthy Living Centre at Christ Church School

  • Margaret Binney

    Margaret Binney remembers her work with schools and families

    Margaret Binney talks about being a relief foster parent and working with schools, play schools and families in and around Frome

  • Isabel George remembers popular leisure classes in and around Frome

    Isabel George worked as an artist and potter and organised a variety of community education classes in Frome and the surrounding villages

  • Paul Truscott

    Paul Truscott recalls the beginning of the Frome Society for Local Study

    Paul Truscott talks about how he developed a lifelong fascination with local history through talking with teacher, Eunice Overend

  • Muriel Chapman talks about her long service as a volunteer

    Muriel Chapman was a volunteer in Frome over many years. She received many awards and was chosen to represent Somerset volunteers at the Royal Albert Hall

  • Blanche Farley

    Blanche Farley recalls Frome Selwood Hospital and the Frome Workhouse

    Blanche Farley worked for the Health Authority and came to Frome in 1987 to manage the closure of the Frome Selwood Hospital

  • Gloria Wingrove

    Gloria Wingrove shares her memories of working in health care

    Gloria Wingrove looks back at her varied working career and recalls how she came to be employed as a health care assistant at the Frome Medical Practice

  • Jackie Lobley

    Jackie Lobley describes her work as a midwife in Frome

    Jackie Lobley discusses her career as an NHS midwife in the Frome area and looks back at some of the deliveries she attended

  • Mary Harrison

    Dr Mary Harrison reflects on her time at the Frome Medical Practice

    Dr Mary Harrison was the first female GP employed at the Frome Medical Practice. Here she talks about her work with young families

  • Bob Griffiths

    Dr Bob Griffiths talks about his work as a Frome doctor

    The Frome Health Centre on Park Road was the first health centre in Somerset and opened in 1969. Dr Bob Griffiths joined the practice in 1971

  • Kate Greenwood

    Kate Greenwood recalls her work in the community

    Kate Greenwood talks about her time as a community staff nurse and her work in a team of district nurses visiting patients in the Frome area

  • Jude Curtis

    Jude Curtis tells us about her time as a district nurse in Frome

    Jude Curtis was a district nurse in Frome for 21 years. She recalls how impressed she was with the caring attitudes of family and neighbours

  • Jean Gill

    Jean Gill discusses her varied job as a district nurse

    Jean Gill was based in the nurses home in Weymouth Road. She visited patients in a car, in the days when most district nurses used bicycles

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