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Gordano Civic Society

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Founded 1956

Posset Pieces

A regular booklet on local history from the Gordano Region of Somerset. Can be bought here on-line, by post, at Society meetings, from Careys, High Street, or the Ship Inn, Portishead.

No 9: 11 November 2011

Portishead at War

76 pages  Size: 176 x 250 mm  (6.9 x 9.8 in)

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CODE: PP09

1. Editorial
2. The War Memorial in St Peter's Church
3. Robert Broom from Family Documents
4. Sturdee Hicks from Letters
5. Geoffrey Tebbutt
6. Portishead UDC and the Imminence of World War II
7. Map of Portishead Defences – World War II
8. The Day War Broke Out (Tony Sutton & Jim Dyer)
9. Memories of His Childhood during World War II (Peter Connell)
10.  Walton-in-Gordano During World War II (Gordon Russell)
11.  Life as an Evacuee in Devon (Joan Righton)
12.  Life in an Orphanage and as an Evacuee (Leslie Weatherburn)
13.  Evacuation to Wiltshire in 1940 (Ken Crowhurst)
14.  Childhood Memories of World War II (Phyllis Anstey)
15.  Alan Baker's Teenage Years During World War II
16.  Wartime Memories and Battery Point (Jim Dyer)
17.  Memories of the Effects of the Bristol Blitz on the Village of Walton-in-Gordano (Howard Carey)
18.  Doreen Harding’s Woollen Cap
19.  Remembrances of World War II  (Dennis Withers)
20.  The Munitions Factory and One of its Workers
21.  We Met At The Munitions Factory (John and Mary Briggs)
22.  Reminders of my Father (by Margaret Bearman)
23.  My Life In The Royal Air Force (by Alan Stonestreet)
24.  My Time At Bletchley Park (Audrey Jones)
25.  Gladys Cooling - N.A.A.F.I. Girl
26.  My Memories of Portishead during World War II (Graham George)
27.  My Time In The Home Guard  (Dick Woodbridge)
28.  My Varied Career in The R.A.F. (Harry Hawker)
29.  Barbara Reid - Land Girl and G.I. Bride

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

31. Trees to Remember a Hero  (George Yeaman)

32. A Wartime Legend Remembered  

33. German Reconnaissance Photographs (John Penny)

34. World War II Fund Raising Weeks  

35. Portbury Engine Test Site (Les Summerfield)

36. Mrs Broom's Diary (Mary Ann Iles)

37. Mrs Broom’s Diary

38. My Dad’s War (Chris Unitt)

39. Lance Bombardier Arthur Gould by his Son

40. Portishead Golf Links (George Jarrett)

41. Prisoners of War – William Gillard Holder

42. The Bombing of Albert Road (Joan Herbert)

43. Sandbag Fillers

44. More on the German Heinkel III Propeller Blade

45. General Facts

46. V.E.Day Parties.

No 8: Summer 2011

Posset People

36 pages  Size: 176 x 250 mm  (6.9 x 9.8 in)

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CODE: PP08

1. Portishead Centenarians including Mrs Mary Ann Tripp, Miss Elizabeth Bolton and Mrs Frances Rogers by Sandy Tebbutt and Angela Cooper.

2. Recollections of Portishead during the early 1900s with Mrs Clarice Hunt and Mrs Dolly Hawking, recorded in May 1988, by Sandy Tebbutt.

3. Nora Brown (nee Dunn) – Her life in North Weston and     Portishead from the 1910s – 1940s by Sandy Tebbutt.

4. Mrs Violet May Welsh’s early childhood years in her own     words with some notes of her daughter, Stella Porter.

5. Portishead’s Carriers and their Associated Trades from  the time of Queen Victoria until the 1950s by Sandy Tebbutt.

No 7: Spring 2011

36 pages  Size: 176 x 250 mm  (6.9 x 9.8 in)

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CODE: PP07

1. Poems on Portbury Salt Marsh and Portbury Marsh

2. The history of the orchards at Weston Moor

3. Alan Baker’s story as told to Sandy Tebbutt

4. The badge of the Redcliffe Bay Swimming Club

5. I married a Posset girl

6. Why the Bye Family came to Portishead

7. Excavations at St Mary’s Road, Portishead in 1984

8. 170 years of Portishead Post Office

9. A Tragedy on the Weston, Clevedon & Portishead, Light Railway

10. The Portishead Customs House and an account of     Smuggling

11. Portishead Rugby Club

12. The boys of “The Training Ship Formidable”

13. The A369 road from Portishead to Bristol

14. The Beach Hotel, Woodhill Bay, Portishead

No 6: Autumn 2009

36 pages  Size: 176 x 250 mm  (6.9 x 9.8 in)

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CODE: PP06

1. More on the Redcliffe Bay tanks

2. Portishead Lake Grounds 1910-2009

3. Mr. Dennis Hancock

4. Commander Eric Glynne Robinson, Peace Pilot

5. The day war broke out

6. The Heinkel air crash of February 1941

7. Oliver Hicks

8. Portishead Radio Station

9. St Augustine's Church, Redcliffe Bay

10. Why the Holder/Parker family came to Portishead

11. The Mystery painting (partly solved)

12. The Walton-in-Gordano shops

13. 19th Century British Newspapers & water closets

No 5: Spring 2009

36 pages  Size: 176 x 250 mm  (6.9 x 9.8 in)

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CODE: PP05

1. Bailey’s Mill, Portishead Dock

2. Why the Derrick & Rudge families came to Portishead

3. Portishead Library

4. Infanticide: The case of Emily White

5. A Tribute to Bob Coates compiled by his family

6. A Portishead haunting compiled

7. AP Burt of Portishead, Bag manufactures

8. Portishead Power Station – Mary Dyer

9. Battery Point – Part 4 – The Second World War  

10. The Oil Pipe Line, Redcliffe Bay

11. The Mystery Painting

12. Portishead’s listed buildings – Severn House

13. More on Portishead’s Victorian Sewerage System – Part 4

No 4: Winter 2008

36 pages  Size: 176 x 250 mm  (6.9 x 9.8 in)

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CODE: PP04

1. Jennie’s Grave

2. The Nautical School Chapel - Photo

3. Golf in Portishead

4. The Diary of Mr W T Clark

5. Portishead Open Air Swimming Pool

6. The Original Sewerage system of Portishead – Part 3

7. Norman G Anstey – Holder of Leopold Medal

8. The Parry Family

9. Portishead Railways – The Flower Show 2008

10. Battery Point – Part 3 - World War One

11. Memories of Nore School, Friary Road, West Hill

12. My Work at Portishead Power Station – Jim Dyer

13. Tinkling’s Legs

No 3: Spring 2008

36 pages  Size: 176 x 250 mm  (6.9 x 9.8 in)

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CODE: PP03

1. A Nautical School Boy

2. The case of the missing blue painted pigeons

3. Warren’s shop at the bottom of Ferndale Road

4. Wartime Memories

5. Frank Langfield

6. Hotel Como (also known as The Bay Hotel)

7. Unsightly Petrol Pumps

8. The British School, West Hill and the graveyard

9. Bristol City – Lord of Portishead Manor?

10. Battery Point – Part 2

11. Dissenters’ Certificate for the Union Independent Chapel

12. Portishead Kindergarten and Preparatory School

13. The original Portishead sewerage system - Part 2

14. A list of Portishead and North Weston’s listed buildings

No 2: Winter 2007

36 pages  Size: 176 x 250 mm  (6.9 x 9.8 in)

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CODE: PP02

1. Place names of Portishead

2. The Savory Family

3. Smugglers in the Bay

4. Construction of the original Sewerage system in Portishead

5. Weston Lodge, The Baker and Watts families and summer holidays

6. Redcliffe Bay Roman Site

7. Battery Point

8. Archaeology in Portishead

9. Education in Portishead

10. Weston Clevedon & Portishead Railway postcard

11. A Bandstand for Portishead?

No 1: Spring 2007

28 pages  Size: 176 x 250 mm  (6.9 x 9.8 in)

ISBN 1 901 084 XXX

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CODE: PP01

1. The buildings of Portishead’s Congregational Chapels

2. Fifty years ago

3. Mrs Elsie Rowles (nee Baker)

4. Portishead Brick and Tile Works

5. The changing place names of Portishead

6. Reports on excavations at the site of Weston-in-Gordano Manor Houses in 1958 and 1960

7. Open space at Beach Road West

8. Fiftieth Year celebrations

Editions 1 to 10: Edited by Sandy Tebbutt

No 10: Spring 2012

Mustad’s - The Horseshoe Nail Manufacturer at Portishead

48 pages Size: 176 x 250 mm  (6.9 x 9.8 in)

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CODE: PP10

1.   Mustad’s - The Norwegian Beginning
2.   Hans Mustad
3.   Fred Burris
4.   Mustad’s of Portishead
5.   Mustad Screws
6.   The End of the Road for Mustad’s of Portishead
7.   The Weston Clevedon & Portishead Light Railway
8.   Evert Carlsson’s Story
9.   Family connections with the Scandinavians
10.   The Workers
11.   Links with Portishead Urban District Council
12.   The Last Word