Bristol's experience in the front line of World War Two could not match the sufferings of Leningrad under siege. But Bristolians could empathise with the inhabitants of the great Russian city, for Bristol itself was effectively under siege from persi 
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Brunel's Bristol - the only book to concentrate on Brunel’s associations with the city of Bristol – tells of the great engineer’s triumphs, exasperations and disappointments in the city which, as a young man, he adopted as his own and which he continu 
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Few men have rightly earned the title of genius, but one must surely be Isambard Kingdom Brunel. In his short lifetime he pioneered the railways, built bridges, tunnels and termini. He also built three ships - the Great Western, Great Britain and Great Ea 
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Memorable scenes of a city at war filtered through a child's eyes, to be thrown into sharp relief by the sheer joy of this young evacuee's brief spell of country life in Cornwall. The book ends with an early-teenage lad stepping back from the vic 
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History of soap-making in Bristol from the Middle Ages, concentrating on the business of Christopher Thomas & Bros from 1745 to the take-over of the makers of Puritan Soap by Lever Bros and final closure of the Broad Plain factory in the 1950s. 
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The fascinating history of the attempts to span the Avon Gorge with a new bridge, culminating in the building of Bristol's most famous landmark by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Packed with information and beautiful colour illustrations and diagrams. 
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Stanley Booker was born in Clifton and attended Bristol Grammar School. When war broke out in 1914 he immediately volunteered to fight for his country. This book tracks his letters home, telling at first of boredom at training camps in England, but leadi 
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A biography of Dr William Budd, pioneer of preventive medicine and epidemiology 
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The smoke and noise of this Wadbury Valley ironworks was once described as 'looking into the mouth of hell'. 
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The only published history of Failand, its buildings and people. 
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