JOHN HALFYARD AND SONS, WELLINGTON

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Repository	Somerset Heritage Centre
Reference number	A/ADN
Description	By 1872 John Halfyard had established a coachbuilding business at 13 Fore Street and removed in 1889 to Henley House in North Street, where his business flourished and he became a very well known carriage and 'bus maker. John Halfyard and Sons manufactured for City Councils, hoteliers etc. until 1932 when they sold the business to Richardson's Garages Ltd of High Street. John Halfyard, senior, having died in 1922, was succeeded by his two sons. [J M Richardson came from Coventry and opened Wellington's first motor works in 1903]. This small collection is principally of family papers kept as mementos.
Date	1890-1957
Access status	Open
Level	Collection

Greetings cards, mainly unused. Press cuttings, especially relating to World War I, Wellington area, etc. Prescriptions and papers relating to war service during World War I. Receipts, accounts and personal notes. Scrapbook of news cuttings relating to Wellington and Wellingtonians; photograph of maypole dancing at St John's school. Press cuttings, wedding and In Memoriam cards with some accounts relating thereto. Personal correspondence including letters relating to Wellington School OBA and the Conservative and Unionist Club. Appointment of John Halfyard, junior, as Special Constable, 1914. Postcards and photographs, many of them named. Prospectus booklet [with litho illustrations], blotters, letterheads etc. Programmes, Carnival, Souvenir, and other misc. items of interest.