A Taunton curiousity Sometimes when doing research you come across an item that takes you off down a rabbit hole of research that you know you shouldn’t be investigating but that old curiosity gene just makes you go there. This happened to me yesterday and the more I thought about it the more I decided I should share it’s peculiarity and horror in equal measures. I am currently researching Taunton buildings for a book [Taunton in 50 Buildings due out autumn 2023] and investigating the first Taunton and Somerset Hospital of 1810 I had cause to check out the WellcomeLibrary catalogue . I was after early annual reports . I failed to find any early enough, but whilst I had my search results up I decided to have a quick look at the images available. This is where the rabbit hole began. The image below struck me as curious and I wondered if it had been a fraud of some kind. There were two of these ‘showings’ both in different places in London. Over to Ancestry to check out the parish registe
