A wide-ranging compendium of Bristol's history, events and personalities, all lovingly recorded by one of Bristol's amateur historians.
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A Southville Community Development Association project to celebrate the 200th anniversary of a great Bristol engineering achievement. Covers 24 subjects from engineering to wildlife and mud and includes 86 illustrations.
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A celebration of a hundred years of Somerset country cricket, and the history of the Bath cricket festival.
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A colourful social history of Bristol's oldest suburbs, full of interesting and amusing anecdotes. It shows how much and how little things have changed -- the same old worries and grumbles occur even today.
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Interweaving letters from the front with stories from home, this book describes the Great War’s impact on Bath. With minor variations, it could be the story of many British towns as they lived through the time when all roads led to France.
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This tells how Britain’s first pleasure resort coped with our ancestors’ relentless desire to drink more than was good for them. From the Gin Epidemic to the Beerhouse Boom, from the Cider Rebellion to the Drunken Election – Awash with Ale tells the story
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A collection of ghost stories and mysteries from Brislington and the neighbourhoods of Arno's Vale, Broomhill and St Anne's.
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Bristol Beyond the Bridge tells the fascinating story of the three original southern parishes of Bristol - Redcliffe, Temple and St. Thomas - from Norman times up to the area's present day revitalisation.
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A book of Bristol's branch railway stations and halts, including a detailed look at Brunel's Temple Meads terminus.
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Recalls the dark days and nights of the blitzes of 1940-41. This collection of eye-witness accounts shows how Bristol faced up to the constant threat of death and destruction.
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