THIS WEBSITE WAS FIRST CREATED OCT 2001 BY PAUL TOWNSEND LOCAL HISTORIAN
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The social history of Bristol is brought to life with striking visual impact in these photograph albums. Over 4000 free to view historic images of buildings, people, fashions, customs, families, children, shops, warehouses, factories, streets, pubs, schools, churches etc, now long forgotten or barely remembered, flattened by concrete or bulldozed out of sight are now collated in a readily accessible reference source. This will be most valuable for social, regional and urban historians, geographers and all those with an interest in the past as seen through photographic evidence. Please feel free to add your own comments to the website guestbook or forum. This non commercial 'hobby' site, has been evolving and expanding on line since 2001 and is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Bristol’s Lost Pubs is a record of Bristol’s pubs and publicans from the mid-eighteenth century up until the middle of the twentieth century, the information on these pages has been gleaned from trade directories and census returns.
The Bristol & Avon Family History Society was formed in 1975 to encourage the study of family history and genealogy in Bristol and what was then the County of Avon. It aimed to provide contacts between members, and to assist one another with problems encountered during research work. Bitton Families - explore this genealogy site, where you can search our database of transcriptions and extractions for your ancestors from Bitton and nearby areas in Gloucestershire (GLS), Somerset (SOM) and Other Parishes. Gert Lush - The Bristol Dialect - Click on this link Hear the FULL A Sense of Place BBC programme from Rob Wicks about the Bristol accent. (Dur 30 minutes) Real 28k/56k and enhanced for broadband. To listen to this sound file you will need to have speakers and a program called RealPlayer installed on your computer. RealPlayer is FREE to download. Archive Video & Sound Files about Bristol Archive selected video and film clips about Bristol & The West Country. To listen to these sound files you will need to have speakers and a program called RealPlayer installed on your computer. RealPlayer is FREE to download. Daze Gone By Reflections of a Bygone Age All images are scanned from old postcards & original photographs not owned by me, most are loaned to me by visitors to this website, high resolution images are not possible. I get frequent requests for high resolution scanned images of my images for advertising or publication. I regret to have to decline most requests. But you can copy the images from the website if you wish. Please link any images that you use to my website. Please note that the local historians of this website are not experts so if you require information not found here, you could leave a request message along with a contact email address in our guestbook or forum. You never know, one of our many visitors may have the information you require and can then contact you directly. Please help me to improve this website: Links to this site on the world wide web http://twitter.com/brizzlebuff
Bristol Information Genealogical and Historical Facts, Information, Memories & Curiosities. The following areas and towns make up the city of Bristol and its outskirts. It includes some adjoining areas of South Gloucestershire, marked SG, and North Somerset, marked NS. A personal name index showing the sources where more information can be found: There are several thousand names with biographical details of Kingswood people who lived in the area of the forest and coalfield. The period covered is heavily weighted towards 1600-1850 but contains some entries from before and some after.
Bristol Record Office The Somerset Archive and Record Service
Bristol Times is a collection of articles drawn from the archives of the Bristol Times supplement of the Bristol Evening Post. Informative and entertaining, each extract recalls an aspect of the city's lively, and sometimes turbulent, history.
John Latimer historian suggests that by the 1830's the population of Bristol was about twelve times greater than it had been in the mediaeval times. However, the land available for burial had not increased significantly. The parish churchyards together with a few small private and denominational burial grounds were insufficient and many of them were no longer fit for purpose and clearly a health hazard. In 1848 the Public Health Act required the closure of most of the inner city churchyards by 1854 and alternative provision became necessary.
Living Easton. Community organisation site with extensive historical information.
Some were orphans, some were deserted and some were sent by parents who were unable to provide for them. The children started their journey from the Workhouses, Industrial Schools, Reformatories and Ragged Schools in Bristol and also the Bristol Emigration Home for Girls. Some had brothers and sisters, others were on their own; all were emigrated without family or friends to start a new life in Canada.
Large list of 1200 children. The file is in PDF format you may view and search the data but you may not print or copy it.
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