Talk and Tea: Picturing Somerset

Name: Talk and Tea: Picturing Somerset
Start: 2026-03-13T14:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-13T15:30:00+00:00
Location: Castle Green, TA1 4AA Taunton, United Kingdom

Schedule

Fri Mar 13 2026 at 02:30 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Castle Green, TA1 4AA Taunton, United Kingdom | Taunton, EN

Explore a photographic history of rural life in Somerset from 1850 to 1920 in this talk by Tom Mayberry.
With the rise of photography from the 1850s onwards, rural life in Somerset was recorded with a vivid immediacy that had never been possible before.
Professional and amateur photographers in towns and villages captured Somerset people both in studio portraits and in thousands of informal images that reflected a way of life so soon to be gone.
Tom Mayberry’s talk will introduce us to a small part of this remarkable photographic legacy and to what it can tell us about a world we have lost.
Booking required, £5.
Visit our website for more information: https://swheritage.org.uk/events/talk-and-tea-picturing-somerset/