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Ed: Paul Gough
The Great War correspondence between Stanley Spencer and Desmond Chute
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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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An epic tale of Boxing, Bordellos and Bristol pluck told in verse and set in the late 18th Century.
“Genious, extraordinary, brilliantly-observed, uproarious and touching.”
Mark Wallis, Historian.
“Hopefully a future British screen writer. Very funny v
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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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Taking the waters – that’s the age-old reason to visit Bath. This book offers a different tipple. Beer has a long and honourable tradition, and Bath’s pubs are also part of the city’s story. This is a tale of high and low, where temperance campaigners jo
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The third book in the Children's Bristol series. Beastly Bristol is about all the Scariest, Funniest, Fiercest, Saddest, Jolliest, Friendliest, Nastiest, the Biggest and the Smallest creatures loose on the streets of Bristol.
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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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100 beautiful paintings, with essay and commentaries, showing how Bristol looked in the decade before the coming of photography. From the celebrated collection in Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.
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A rich and comprehensive history of Bristol's famous (and less well-known) sons and daughters.
Bristol has plenty to be proud of when it comes to famous people. Some were born in the city while others were drawn to it by its colourful heritage, advent
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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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Perhaps the most famous and best loved pirate book of all is Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, dominated by the charismatic and terrifyingly unforgettable pirate, Long John Silver, and set against a backdrop of eighteenth century Bristol.
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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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On l May, 1809 the port of Bristol was transformed for ever by the completion of the Floating Harbour. For centuries, ships coming up the Avon had been stranded on the muddy bed of the river at low tide.
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A sumptiously illustrated book showing how Brunel helped transform modern transport, engineering and architecture. This book accompanies a major exhibition at the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.
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Box Tunnel is a railway tunnel in western England, which is positioned between Bath and Swindon. The tunnel passes through the Box Hill which consists mainly of limestone and was built for the original route of The Great Western Railway.
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The Brunel's Kingdom Collection of Drawings.In 1830 a competition was held to gather designs for a bridge over the River Avon. Brunel won the competition and work began to build the 214 metre long Clifton Suspension Bridge.
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From The Brunel’s Kingdom Collection of drawings
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born on April 9th. 1806 and died on September 15th. 1859.
The son of a French engineer, he was born in Portsmouth, England.
Brunel was educated at Hove near
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The Brunel's kingdom Collection of Drawings.Opened in 1854 between Bishop's Bridge Road and Praed Street, Paddington Station is another wonderful design example of the incredibly versatile Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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The Brunel's kingdom Collection of Drawings. Designed by Brunel The Royal Albert Bridge was officially opened in 1859 by Prince Albert. Known as “The Gateway to Cornwall” this “bowstring” suspension bridge was designed for the Cornwall Railway
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