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A369 road from Portishead to Bristol

7

Adelaide Terrace

23, 27

Air crash, Heinkel

6

Alan Baker's Teenage Years During World War II

9

Alan Baker’s story as told to Sandy Tebbutt

7

Alan Stonestreet, my story

11

Albert Road, Bombing of

9

Albright & Wilson

27

Anstey, Norman G, Leopold Medal, holder of

4

AP Burt of Portishead, bag manufactures

5

Archaeology in Portishead

2

Archeological finds at Gordano School, Portishead

13

Asiatic Petroleum Company

22

Ashford family

24

Aubrey McGuire, holder of the Bristol Humane Society Silver Medal

11

B

Badge of the Redcliffe Bay Swimming Club

7

Bailey’s Mill, Portishead Dock

5

Baker, Alan

7,9

Baker, Elsie

1

'Ballarat', 52 Nore Road.

12

Ballerina, who wants to be a?

20

Bandstand for Portishead?

2

Baster, Elizabeth, Miss

23

Bathing, sea

13

Battery Point

2,3,4,5,9,20, 27

Battery Point – The Second World War

5, 9

Battery Point – World War One

4

Bax family at Capenor Court

17

Beach Hotel, Woodhill Bay, Portishead

7

Beach Road West, open space

1

Beating the Bounds

11

Begging in Portishead

12

Bell ringers, local ladies

22

Bells, Jubilee 1897

12

Bennett family

18

Beryl Broad’s Indian pot

13, 15

Bird Tree cottage

23

Bletchley Park, my time at

9

Blitz, the effects of the Bristol Blitz on the Village of Walton-in-Gordano

9

Bombing of Albert Road

9

Boyle, Lady Caroline

23

Boys of 'The Training Ship Formidable'

7

Bransby-Dixon, D: memories of Portishead

12

'Bravo Bristol' by Clive Burlton.

11

Brick and Tile Works, Portishead

1

Bristol City – Lord of Portishead Manor?

3

Bristol Corporation

27

British Newspapers & water closets, 19th Century

6

British School, West Hill and the graveyard

3

Broderip, Mrs Frances Freeling

20

Broom, Mrs: Diary

9

Broom, Robert from Family Documents

9

Broom, Tommy, Squadron Leader D.F.C.  

9

Brunel’s Broad Gauge railway carriage

12

Brunel, did he visit Portishead?

20

Bruton Manor

17, 24, 27

Building of Portishead’s Congregational Chapels

1

Buildings, lost, of Portishead

12

Bull, Maurice

13

Bunce, John

21

Burris, Fred

10

Burt AP, of Portishead, bag manufactures

5

Bussell family

21

Butt, Dame Clara

20

Bye Family – why they came to Portishead

7

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Capenor Court

17, 24

Career in The R.A.F.  

9

Carlsson, Evert’s Story

10

Celebrations, Fiftieth Year

1

Census, Ecclesiastical of 1851 by Sandy Tebbutt

11

Challands, Rodney Martin

15

Chapel, Nautical School – Photo

4

Chapels, Congregational, building of

1

Chappell family tree

17

Chessels burial ground

27

Childhood Memories of World War II as Remembered

9

Chitty, Hubert

21

Christmas lights

20

Church, St Augustine's, Redcliffe Bay

6

Church, United Reformed, organs at the

12

Clapton-in-Gordano, Cherry Orchards

11

Clark, W T, diary of

4

Clifton Suspension Bridge

15

Coates, Bob, a tribute compiled by his family

5

Cole, James George

18

Cole, Owen Blayney, “Our Village”

13

Commander Eric Glynne Robinson, Peace Pilot

6

Commemorative souvenirs

18

Congregational Chapels, building of

1

Connections with the White Lion

13

Continents, Mountains, Oceans and Portishead

16

Cooling, Gladys, N.A.A.F.I. Girl

9

Cresswell, Sir Richard

23

Cricket in Portishead

18

Crime in the High Street.

14

Codrington family

21

Coker family

21

Crocker family

20

Curates, the

15

Customs House and an account of Smuggling

7

D

D Bransby-Dixon’s memories of Portishead

12

Day War Broke Out

6,9

Davis family

24

Delineations of Somersetshire (1829)

15

Den Dungen

27

Derrick & Rudge families – why they came to Portishead

5

Diary of Mr W T Clark

4

Diary, Mrs Broom's

9

Dissenters’ Certificate for the Union Independent Chapel

3

Down House

12

Dunn, Nora

8

Dyer, Jim

20

E

Early closing – Letters to the editor (1863).

14

Eastwood

27

Ecclesiastical Census of 1851 by Sandy Tebbutt.

11

Education in Portishead

2, 27

Eldon Lodge Freemasonry

23

Elizabeth Featherstone’s story

14

Elsie Rowles (nee Baker)

1

Esplanade

27

Evacuation to Wiltshire in 1940

9

Evacuee in Devon, Life as an

9

Evert Carlsson’s Story

10

Excavations at St Mary’s Road, Portishead in 1984

7

Excavations at site of Weston-in-Gordano Manor Houses in 1958 & 1960

1

F

Family connections with the Scandinavians

10

Farms – special edition

24

Featherstone, Elizabeth's, story

14

Fedden, Henry

26

Field names

24

Fiftieth Year celebrations

1

Fifty years ago, a poem written in 1880

1

Fire!

13

Fisher, John

20

Flower Show

13

Flower Show 2008: Railways

4

Formidable, Training Ship, boys of the

7

Formidable, BTS – special edition

26

Fountain, drinking

18

Fox, George

20

Fusts of Hill Court

17

G

Gale family

24

Gallipoli Hut

22

Geoffrey Tebbutt

9

Geology - special edition

16

German Heinkel III Propeller Blade

9

German Reconnaissance Photographs

9

Ghost, Rectory, revisted

12

Gladys Cooling, N.A.A.F.I. Girl

9

Golf in Portishead

4

Golf Links

9

Gordon, James

21

Gould, Arthur, Lance Bombardier

9

H

Haberfield bridge

18

Hancock, Dennis

6

Hangings, Kenn

21

Hannah Wiltshire, the sad case of

15

Harding, Doreen

9,11

Harrison, Leslie

20

Haunting, Portishead

5

Hawking, Dolly, recollections of Portishead during the early 1900s

8

Hawkins, Bill

23

Heinkel air crash of February 1941

6, 9

Herbert, Ray

20

Hicks, Oliver

6

Hicks, Sturdee, from letters

9

High Street – special edition

14

High Street, map – 1915

14

Hill Court, Fusts of

17

Historic Maps

14

History in the making - volunteering at the 2012 Olympics.

12

History of Portishead, a brief – special edition

27

Holder, William Gillard, Prisoners of War  

9

Holder/Parker family – why they came to Portishead

6

Hollywood (Bruton Manor)

17, 24

Home Guard, my time in the

9

Honnywill family

17

Horlick, Miss Gwen

12

Horticultural Society, Portishead 1863-2013

13

Hotel Como (also known as The Bay Hotel)

3

Hunt, Clarice, recollections of Portishead during the early 1900s

8

I

Inchfawn, Fay

20

Indian Pot, Beryl Broad's

13

Infanticide: The case of Emily White

5

J

Jennie’s Grave

4

Johnny Johnston, Portishead Power Station by

11

Jubilee Bells of 1897

12

Jubilees, Queens’ Diamond

11

K

Kemey sisters

21

Kenn hangings

21

Kew the builders

18

Kindergarten and Preparatory School

3

King John statue

21

Kingsley, Charles

20

L

Lake Grounds 1910-2009

6

Lake Grounds – see separate publication

–

Lance Bombardier Arthur Gould by his Son

9

Langfield, Frank

3

Leopold Medal, Norman G Anstey, holder of

4

Lewis, Clive Staples

20

Library

5

Life as an evacuee in Devon

9

Life in an Orphanage and as an Evacuee

9

Listed buildings of Walton-in-Gordano

15

Listed buildings, Portishead and North Weston

3

Long, Vic

20

Lost buildings of Portishead – Special edition

17

M

Map of High Street – 1915

14

Map of Portishead Defences – World War II

9

Map showing former Power Station layout

15

Maps, historic

14

Marina

27

Marine baths

18

Marsh Lane

15

May Day in 1925 at Walton-in-Gordano

15

MacKenzie, Sir Compton

20

Memories of growing up in Portishead

12

Memories of Portishead during World War II

9

Memories of effects of Bristol Blitz on the village of Walton-in-Gordano

9

Memories, wartime, Alfred Poole

3

Mill, Bailey’s, Portishead Dock

5

Mills of Portishead, Tidal, Wind, Steam and Industrial

12

Missing blue painted pigeons

3

Mohuns of Capenor

17

Monica Russell’s letter to Father Christmas.

12

Moor, Weston, history of the orchards

7

Mrs Broom's Diary

9

Munitions Factory

9

Mustad’s of Portishead - special edition

10

My Story by Alan Stonestreet

11

My Time In The Home Guard  

9

Mystery Painting

5,6

N

Naish Hill Climb and James Gordon’s Carriageway

11, 21

Naish House and its Estate at Clapton in Gordano - special edition

21

National Nautical School - special edition

26

National Nautical School in WW1

22

Nautical School Boy

3

Nautical School Chapel

4, 26

Nora Brown (nee Dunn) – Her life in North Weston and Portishead from the 1910s to 1940s

8

Nore House

23

Nore Road

27

Nore School, Friary Road, West Hill

4

Norman G Anstey – Holder of Leopold Medal

4

North Weston

27

O

Oil Pipe Line, Redcliffe Bay

5

Old Pier Railway Station

15

Olympics, 2012, volunteering

12

Open Air Swimming Pool

4

Open space at Beach Road West

1

Orchards at Weston Moor

7

Orchards, Cherry, of Clapton-in-Gordano

11

Original Portishead sewerage system

3,4

Organs of the United Reformed Church.

12

Orphanage, life in an

9

Owen Blayney Cole’s 'Our Village'

13

P

Painting, mystery

56

Palmer, Frederick Alexander Palmer

23

Paper mill

27

Parish wharf

27

Parker family

6

Parry Family

4

P C Simper & Sons – cycles and toys

14

Personalities, Past and Present – special edition

20

Pier

27

Pier, Old Railway Station

15

Pilings in the mud

18

Petrol Pumps, unsightly

3

Pigeons, missing blue painted

3

Place names of Portishead, changing

1,2

Playtimers

12

Poacher, the, public house

18

Poem: Fifty Years Ago, written in 1880

1

Poems on Portbury Salt Marsh and Portbury Marsh

7

Poems, Owen Blaney Cole

13

Portbury Engine Test Site

9

Portishead and North Weston’s listed buildings

3

Portishead Brick and Tile Works

1

Portishead Centenarians inc Mrs Mary Ann Tripp, Miss Elizabeth Bolton and Mrs Frances Rogers

8

Portishead Horticultural Society 1863-2013.

13

Portishead Power Station, my work at

4

Portishead Power Station by Johnny Johnston.

11

Portishead Radio Station

6, 18

Portishead Railways – The Flower Show 2008

4

Portishead Rectory ghost revisited.

12

Portishead UDC and the Imminence of World War II

9

Portishead underground

16

Portishead Urban District Council, links with

10

Portishead’s Carriers and their Associated Trades from the time of Queen Victoria until the 1950s

8

Portishead’s listed buildings – Severn House

5

Portishead’s time scale – geology

16

Pottery, Portishead and Miss Gwen Horlick

12

Posset girl, I married a

7

Posset People – special editions

8, 20

Post Office – 170 years in Portishead

7

Power Stations

4,5,11, 27

Princess Christian of Schleswig Holstein

20

Princess Henry of Battenberg

20

Prisoners of War

9,22

'Prisoner' of Woodhill – the 37 year asylum of Owen Blayney Cole.

13

Public House, The Poacher

18

Q

Queens’ Diamond Jubilees

11

R

R.A.F, career in the

9

Rackley House, Portishead

17, 27

Radio Station, Portishead

6, 18, 27

Railway carriage, Brunel’s Broad Gauge

12

Railway, Portishead Branch Line

12

Railway Station, Old Pier

15

Railway, Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Light Railway

2,7,10

Railways – The Flower Show 2008

4

Rectory characters.

13

Rectory ghost revisited.

12

Rectory, the

12

Redcliffe Bay estate

13

Redcliffe Bay in the 1950s

13

Redcliffe Bay Roman site

2

Redcliffe Bay Swimming Club, badge of the

7

Redcliffe Bay tanks

6

Redcliffe Bay, Oil Pipe Line

5

Reid, Barbara – Land Girl and G.I. Bride

9

Remembrances of World War II  

9

Reminders of my Father

9

Reminiscences, High Street

14

Reynolds, Arthur

20

Robinson, Eric Glynne, peace pilot

6,1,5

Rocks, age of

16

Rodney Martin Challands

15

Roman Site, Redcliffe Bay

2

Rowles, Elsie (nee Baker)

1

Royal Air Force, my life in the

9

Rugby Club, Portishead

7

Russell, Monica

12

S

Sandbag Fillers

9

Savory Family

2

Schimmelpennick connection

12

School, British, West Hill and the graveyard

3

School, Kindergarten and Preparatory

3

Schools, Portishead

27

Sea bathing

13

Sewerage System in Portishead, construction of original

2

Sewerage System, Victorian, Portishead

2,3,4,5,27

Sharland, Edward

20

Shell Petroleum

27

Shipwrecks and drownings off Portishead Point

12

Shops, High Street

14

Shops, Walton-in-Gordano

6

Signal station at Walton-in-Gordano

13

Silk, Dolores

23

Simper, P C  & Sons – cycles and toys

14

Sinnock family

20

Slade Road

27

Smugglers in the Bay

2

Someone to watch over me by Nigel Coombes.

11

Souvenirs, commemorative

18

Spencer, Captain Thomas, and school for boys

21

Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of Great Britain 1809 - 1812

11

Squadron Leader Tommy Broom D.F.C.  

9

St. Augustine's Church, Redcliffe Bay

6, 26

St. Mary's well

17

St. Nicholas

26

Steam Mill

12

Sterland, Martin

20

Stone used in the High Street building

14

Stone, Sid

13

Stonestreet, Alan

11

Sturdee Hicks from letters

9

T

Tanks, Redcliffe Bay

6

Tebbutt, Geoffrey

9

Teenage boys in 1949

11

Tidal mill

12

Tinkler family

23

Tinkling’s Legs

4

Tragedy on the Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Light Railway

7

Training Ship Formidable, boys of the

7

Traverses – geology

16

Trees to Remember a Hero  

9

Tucks Cottage, High Street

17, 18

U

Urban District Council

27

Union Independent Chapel, Dissenters’ Certificate for

3

United Reformed Church, Organs at the

12

Upper Lodge, Down Road

17

V

V.E. Day Parties

9

Victor Halliwell and the disaster on Lake Windermere

15

Victorian Sewerage System, Portishead

2,3,4,5

Violet May Welsh’s early childhood years in her own words

8

Virgo family of Walton-in-Gordano

15

Volunteering at 2012 Olympics

12

Voluntary Aid Detachment

27

W

Walks in Gordano – Special publication

25

Walter, Joseph

20

Walter Russell (1878-1960) and his family

15

Walton-in-Gordano, Signal station at

13

Walton-in-Gordano

13

Walton-in-Gordano During World War II

9

Walton-in-Gordano listed buildings

15

Walton-in-Gordano shops

6

Walton-in-Gordano, May Day 1925

15

Walton-in-Gordano, Virgo family of

15

War, day broke out

6

War Memorial

9,22

War, My Dad’s  by Chris Unitt

9

Warren’s shop at the bottom of Ferndale Road

3

Water closets, 19th century

6

Wartime Legend Remembered  

9

Wartime Memories

3

Wartime Memories and Battery Point

9

Welsh, Violet May’s early childhood years in her own words

8

Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Light Railway

10

Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Light Railway, Tragedy on the

7

Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Railway postcard

2

Weston-in-Gordano, Malicious wounding

13

Weston-in-Gordano Manor Houses, excavations in 1958 and 1960

1

Weston-in-Gordano, more goings-on in

15

Weston Lodge, The Baker and Watts families and summer holidays

2

Weston Moor, history of the orchards

7

Whistler, James

20

White Lion, connections with

13

White Lodge

17, 27

White, Emily: Infanticide

5

Wigan, doctor

26

Wigan, Eve

22

Wildlife Reserves

27

Wiltshire, Hannah, the sad case of

15

Windmill

12

Windibank, Ken

20

Wood, Frances Hariott

20

Woodhill Road

27

Woodlands Road

Working men's clubs

18

World War I special edition

22

World War II special edition

9

World War II: memories of childhood

9

World War II Fund Raising Weeks  

9

Woodhill, 'Prisoner' of – the 37 year asylum of Owen Blayney Cole.

13

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Y

Youth Centre, 50 years of – special edition

19

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