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Hi Jaymac

Many thanks for the response on this. Just looking back, my word this thread has been running for some years now.
As it is, sadly I am no longer in any formal position to do anything further, with regards to the pattern collection at Westonzoyland. After some years of trying to get better storage conditions for these pieces, and push things on with regard to their safety and future, I found too much indifference and disinterest  within the group; eventually departing just under two years ago. I do not believe these items will ever get the care they deserve, since they are to the best of my knowledge still languishing in a tumbledown building. Maybe, one day, a new round of keen individuals will salvage them.
I thank everyone for replying to this post over the years; some fascinating stories have come to the fore and it has been most interesting. The future of the pieces however is now in others' hands.

Aha. I see a lot has happened since my last foray in FreeReg. Many thanks for the updated link, I didn't know that. Will peruse later today.

Ref in particular your last paragraph; our museum is accredited (Arts Council England, no.1930) and we can get guidance from conservation professionals. Although we don't actually "collect" foundry patterns as part of our remit, we've got these items now (as explained earlier) and are doing what we can to keep them in order. One or two other museums were approached as regards having some of the specimens but they are small, like our museum, and don't have a lot of room to display them.

Most museums like us are purely volunteer-run, in fact a huge section of heritage relies heavily on them....the government has no idea how many volunteers prop this sector up. Fox's woollen mills are just down the M5 from me; I haven't visited them myself but am aware of their condition. It's things like this that suffer from stifling bureaucracy, disinterest in the past, and in the end, it comes down to determined volunteers to save the day or contents.
Attached is a photo of a few patterns; bit dark but best I can do on a dark day in a dark store-room.

mm....the image cost quite a bit....in the end it's the full attestation document. Looks like he signed up for 12 years. There's no other information about where he went or served, though....is it possible to research that any further?

I recently discovered that one of my ancestors had been a Chelsea Pensioner. I looked up his details in the records at FindMypast, but was a bit bemused by the findings that the search gave out...I don't fully understand what to do with them (if there is anything that I can do with them).
The document transcribed was an attestation for the year 1862; my ancestor was 18 years old. It gives his attestation corps as "Military Train", it also gives his service number. There is a box number and a box record number (British Army service Records 1760-1915)..and that's about it.
Now I have no head for military records stuff, so can someone tell me where I should look next, or am I unlikely to find any further info?