1901 Census (31 March)
House not built until 1903
1911 Census (2 April)
Frederick A. Dredge – Head of family – Age 30 – Married – Coal Miner, Hewer – Born Laverton, Somerset
Ellen Dredge – Wife – Age 35 – Married – Born Tellingford, Somerset
Ewart F. Dredge – Son – Age 4 – Born Farmborough, Somerset
Wilfred L. Dredge – Son – Age 3 – Born Farmborough, Somerset
Dorothy W. Dredge – Daughter – Age 2 – Born Clutton, Somerset
Thomas W. Dredge – Son – Nine months – Born Clutton, Somerset
1920 Auction of the Earl of Warwick’s land and properties – Mr. A. Taviner (Rent 4s 7d per week). Lot No. 94 comprising of Nos. 47, 48, 49, 50 and 51 Maynard Terrace.
Fifty six cottages in Maynard Terrace were lotted in groups of three, four, and five but as there were no offers the auction closed and negotiations took place privately for the houses. Several of them together with some of the other lots were withdrawn, were disposed of, and negotiations are proceeding in regard to the others. It should be stated that all the properties are occupied and none of the tenants are under notice to quit. [Bristol Times and Mirror, 27 August 1920].
1921 Census (Planned for 24 April but did not take place until 19 June due to the Black Friday Strike)
Mark Taviner – Head – Age 34 – Married – Coal Miner, Timberman, Clutton Colliery (Out of Work) – Born Clutton, Somerset
Ada Taviner – Wife – Married – Home Duties – Born Chatham, Kent
George Taviner – Son – Age 12 – School – Born Clutton, Somerset
Alfred Taviner – Son – Age 11 – School – Born Clutton, Somerset
Albert Taviner – Son – Age 9 – School – Born Clutton, Somerset
Elsie Taviner – Daughter – Age 5 – School – Born Clutton, Somerset
Harold Taviner – Son – Age 8 months – Born Clutton, Somerset
1939 Register (29 September 1939)
William H. Clark – Collier, Coal Screening, Married, b. 20 December 1904
Irene L. M. Clark – Unpaid Domestic Duties, Married, b. 18 September 1903
Gordon W. Clark – At School, Single, b. 4 September 1930
One record closed under 100 year rule
1945 Auction of the Earl of Warwick’s land and properties – It is assumed that this property did not sell in the 1920 Auction and was put up for auction on 16 August 1945. Lot 66 – Tenant Mr. W. H. Clark, rent £21 13s 4d p.a. which includes part rates of £4 2s 4d.
Dwellings, with the price when withdrawn, were : 47 to 56, Maynard Terrace (10 houses), £2,100.
[Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer, 24 August 1945]
REGISTER OF ELECTORS
1903 to 1908 – Not specified
1909 to 1910 – Frederick Adolphus Dredge
1912 to 1913 – Frederick Adolphus Dredge
1914 – Not specified
1915 – Mark Taviner
1918 to 1926 – Ada Florence Taviner, Mark Taviner
1927 to 1928 – Arthur Maggs, Winifred Lilian Maggs
1928 to 1930 – William Robert Tarrant, Edith Mary Tarrant
1930 – Herbert John Bridges
1939 to 1959 – Irene Letitia May Clark, William Henry Clark
1952 to 1957 – Gordon W. Clark
1960 to > – Oliver John Carter
1960 to 1962 – Martha Shearn
NEWSPAPER REPORTS
Friday 15 November 1929, Somerset Standard
Wedding
A pretty wedding took place at the Roman Catholic Church, Radstock, on Saturday between Miss Dorothy, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Tarrant, of Maynard Terrace, Clutton, to Mr. Herbert Bridges, of Farmborough. Father T. A. Agius officiated. The bride was give away by her father, and wore a dress of white crepe-de-chine and a wreath with embroidered veil. Her bouquet was of white chrysanthemums. There were four bridesmaids all dressed in blue silk – Misses Lily and Betty Farrant, Beatrice Attwood and a friend. Mr. Fred Denning, of Stratton-on-the-Fosse, was best man. There were many useful presents. A reception was held at the home of the bride after the ceremony.
Friday 17 February 1950, Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer.
For Sale – B.S.A. Air Rifle, Cadet .177. Little used. What offers? – Clark, 50, Maynard Terrace, Clutton.
Friday 6 July 1956, Bristol Evening Post
Clutton Motor Cyclist Fined at Sherbourn
Gordon William Clark, of 50, Maynard Terrace, Clutton, was fined and ordered to pay 10s. costs by Sherborne magistrates yesterday for riding a motor-cycle without due care and attention.
A Sherborne motorist, Wallace Turner, of Inn Street, said he was driving from Sherborne to Yeovil. He had overtaken three or four cars and was negotiating a slow right-hand bend when lark pulled out from behind an approaching car and struck the front offside of his car.
In evidence, Clark said he was coming from Yeovil and following another car: " I pulled out to see if there was anything coming before overtaking. Just as I got out into the road, down came one car and I could not avoid it."
Friday 21 September 1956, Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer
Parish Church Wedding – Mr. W. Dunster – Miss H. I Clark
Miss Heather Irene Clark, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clark of 50, Maynard Terrace, Clutton, was married at Clutton Parish Church.
The bridegroom was Mr. William Dunster, son of Mrs. O. Legg, of Rush Hill, Farrington Gurney, and the Rev. I. Westhead (rector of Cameley and Temple Cloud) officiated.
Given in marriage by her father, the bride was attired in a gown of ivory Nottingham lace and her full length veil was held in place with a head dress of pearls. She also wore a necklace of rhinestones and her bouquet was red carnations, lilies of the valley, and heather.
Her four attendants were : Miss Joan Woodland, Miss Diane Goffe (friends), Mrs. Peggy Edgell (cousin), and Mrs. Peggy Dunster (Bridegroom’s sister-in-law).
All wore full length lilac taffeta dresses with overnet (gifts of the bridegroom), floral head dresses and carried bouquets to tone.
Mr. William Dunster, brother of bridegroom, was best man, and about 60 guests attended the reception at St. John’s Ambulance Hall, Clutton.
For their honeymoon, at Weymouth, the bride travelled in a charcoal grey costume with pink accessories. Their home is at 22, The Mead, Clutton.
Friday 26 April 1968, Somerset Standard
Mainly About People – “Diamond Day” for Local Preacher
With a family gathering at home, Mr Mark Taviner, founder of the West Harptree building firm of M. Taviner and Sons, and his wife celebrated their diamond wedding on Saturday.
Surrounded by every member of their family and many friends they were recipients of scores of congratulatory messages, flowers and other presents. These included a telegram from the Queen.
This long article has been shortened just to include the parts that are relevant to Clutton.
Born in Clutton, Mr Taviner started work in the local coal mining industry at the age of 12 and for a 10 hour shift he received one shilling a day. When he married his weekly wage was 23s 9d. They lived in different homes in Clutton at weekly rents of 1s 6d and 2s 6d, and 3s 9d in Maynard Terrace.
A year after his marriage, he was one of the miners who escaped from Greyfield Colliery when it was suddenly flooded. He afterwards worked at the nearby Clutton Pit.
Friday 26 April 1968, Cheddar Valley Gazette
Diamond Wedding of a Former Pitboy Who Founded a Business
A West Harptree man who celebrated his diamond wedding on Saturday began working down a coalmine when he was only 12, was thrown out of work when the mines closed 20 years later, began an apprenticeship as a stone mason when he was 32, and today is still working as the head of a flourishing building business.
Mr Mark Taviner, of The Flat, West Harptree is 81 and his wife, Ada, is 83. They met as members of the Methodist Church at Clutton when Mrs Taviner, a Kent girl, came to the district as a lady’s companion, and were married at Old Brompton, Chatham in 1908.
In one of the workshops of M. Taviner and Sons at West Harptree, where he was still working on Friday, Mr Taviner told the Mid Somerset Series of Newspapers a little about his remarkable career as a miner, builder, businessman and local preacher.
“I was born in Clutton, went to school there for a few years, and then, at the age of 12 started work down the mines at Greyfield,” he said. “My first job was to load coal on the ‘putts.’ These were conveyances like sledges, without wheels, which youths hauled from the coal face back to the waggons which took the coal to the surface.
“When I got a little older I became a “guss and crook” boy myself. By means of a belt and a crook we were chained to the putts, which we would drag from the coal face to the waggons, crawling along tunnels no more than 18 inches or 2 ft. high. The distance would be about 50 yards, and we would haul about 3 cwt. At a time, and load it on to the waggons.
“It was piecework, and we were paid 9d per ton. We could earn 14s. or 15s. a week, working from daylight to dusk – not that it made any difference down in the mine. Often it was dark when we went down in the morning, and dark when we came up at night, and we never saw daylight.
The long hours, hard work did not affect Mr Taviner’s health, and he is still hale and remarkable active. “If a man is healthy to begin with, he can keep healthy underground,” he said. Eventually Mr Taviner became a fully-fledged miner, working at the coal face and earning 23s. 9d. a week.
Then he was successful in passing his examinations, and became a bailiff – a shift boss underground. After working for some time at Greyfield he transferred to the pit at Clutton. “I was the first to go down at Clutton, and the last to come up when it closed, “ he said.
This long article has been shortened just to include the parts that are relevant to Clutton