Frome in Wessex
Frome Rotarians Book
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© 1998. Contents Updated: Thursday, 26 October 2006
Rotary help for Ethiopia
Theo Tesfaye, centre, came to England from Ethiopia as a student and now manages the Somerset based charity Send a Cow in Ethiopia. Having addressed the Frome Branch of the Rotary Club at a recent lunchtime meeting, he was given a cheque for £250 by International Committee President, Alan Shaw (left). Also present (right) is trustee, farmer John Longman.
Another family of a one acre farmer in the highlands of Etiopia will benefit from having a cross-bred cow yielding ten litres instead of the native animals which yield only two or three litres daily. Theo Tesfaye explained how these farmers struggle to avoid malnutrition and how the better quality of the new cross-breds help to transform their lives.
Frome: A Special Town
In celebration of its 70th year of existence, having been formed on 3 December 1925, the Frome Rotary club published “a kaleidoscope of words and pictures”, as Alan Sandall, the President wrote in the introduction. The book is a 128 page, large format book of articles, tributes and photographs of Frome, beautifully printed by quality local printer Butler and Tanner, who offered their services free of charge. Dr John Moxon, the editor, claims it is the first cased book by multiple authors about Frome, though a Samuel Cuzner in 1866 apparently wrote the first book on "Froome-Selwood" which was also printed by Butler and Tanner.
Everyone who contributed to the book did so for no charge and so the book is quite free of any intrusive advertising. Proceeds from it go to the good causes supported by the Frome Rotary Club and copies may be had from Frome bookshops, either:
- Hunting Raven Bookshop Cheap Street Frome Telephone: 01373 473111
Other books about Frome referred to in this book are:
The Book of Frome, Frome Through the Ages, Frome Place Names, Frome in Picture Postcards (3 volumes) and Crime and Punishment in Regency Frome all by local historian and prolific writer about Frome, Michael McGarvie.
The Making of Frome by Peter Belham
Frome Then and Now by G Russell
Frome in Old Photographs and Bath Street, Frome both by Derek Gill
The Buildings of Frome by Rodney Goodall
Going, Going, Gone! History of Frome’s Livestock Market by Alan Sandall.
