Tom marks 20 years with GTH
January 2025
Tom Mellor MRICS FAAV celebrates two decades with Greenslade Taylor Hunt this month.
Tom is now a Partner with the firm that he originally joined as an administrator for the milk quota department at Taunton. To this day he still has the letter signed by Richard Webber offering him the position.
Tom has risen through the ranks, being initially sponsored by GTH to undertake correspondence courses in both a diploma in surveying practice and then an honours degree in estate management.
Now he oversees the graduate scheme within the firm and is particularly proud to see the next generation of property and rural professionals progress and thrive.
As he trained on the job rather than take the university path it took him longer to qualify, but this route meant that he was overseeing and training others as soon as he qualified as a surveyor.
Tom is based at Sedgemoor Auction Centre and has been there since the market relocated from Taunton back in 2008. It has expanded enormously since the move to the purpose-built site and is now the largest livestock market in the South of England, attracting buyers and sellers from across Britain and Ireland.
One of Tom’s abiding memories of his time at Sedgemoor is a rather over-enthusiastic bullock literally eating the paperwork out of his hand as Tom attempted to book in the pen of seemingly hungry store cattle.
He loves his role at Sedgemoor.
“I’ve grown up here along with the market. The 17 years we have been based at Sedgemoor have flown by. I can’t see any reason why the next 17 years won’t do the same!” said Tom.
As well as a regular auctioneering slot selling sheep at Sedgemoor on Saturdays and machinery at on-farm sales, he is also the Partner in Charge of the firm’s antiques department.
He oversaw that department’s relocation to Sedgemoor last year. The move provided easier access for salegoers close to the M5 at Junction 24 along with plenty of free on-site parking.
His varied workload also encompasses Red Book valuations, compensation claims, tenancy matters, land-based subsidy claims and any other rural professional matters.