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Yarde House was built in the early nineteenth cenury and was owned by Miss Halliday, the "Lady of Northtown", whose family had owned all the land on that side of the River Tone since the mid-sixteenth century.
The building burnt down in the 1840's and was not rebuilt until the 1860's.
By 1886 it was let to Edwin Goodman, a goldsmith and dentist who had been practicing in East Reach, Taunton, who bought it in 1888. His family practiced there for three generations until 1933.
Yarde House has now been in continuous occupation as a Dental Practice for 120 years with Graham Catchpole also making it something of a family affair, joining his Father Brian in practice in 1969.
These days leading-edge technology and techniques are combined with a good old fashioned personal and caring approach to all patients, to offer a standard of care and quality of results which would have completely amazed the original Yarde House dentists.
In 1815/16, the Goodmans were making dentures for their patients using teeth pulled from the fallen at the Battle of Waterloo - the Practice still has some examples!
Yarde House opened tot he public in the year of 1888. It had a centenary banquet which was held at the Municipal Hall, Taunton on the 04th November 1988. Present was Sir Paul Bramley (President of the B.D.A.) and the Mayor of Taunton, Councillor Peter Horsford.
