Clevedon
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My home
I have lived in the village all my life, all 29 years of it. I have lived in 3 different cottages, the 1st was opposite the village hall, I am 1 of 4 children and I have many happy memories of living there till just before my 10th birthday. My father then got offered a bigger house just up the road. That was a very special house a lovely big garden plus I had my own room!! I then left school at 16yrs and worked for Sir William helping my father maintain the cottages and land. I was then fortunate to be offered my 3rd home in the village - where I have brought up my two young children and me ...read more here
A memory of Walton-In-Gordano contributed by amy maguire
Brockley Hall
I believe that my great grandfather Robert Landeman Jones owned Brockley Hall but I am unsure of the date, I am guessing it was the 1870s. I think that he later moved to Weston-super-Mare. My brother and I have a photo of the old house. I also have a diary that my great grandfather kept for the years 1896 and 1905 which has fascinating detail about his accounts.
A memory of Brockley contributed by Rosamund Garrod-Mason
Portishead - our first house
My wife and I bought our first house at Portishead, South Road, it was £2,200, we could only borrow, so the monthly payment was the same as a week's wages, no overtime or my wife's wages taken into consideration. We had three children and some happy times. I worked on the coal boats and then Albright and Wilson phos factory.
John Burge.
A memory of Portishead contributed by First name Last name
Margaret and Wallflowers
Margaret and wallflowers
The year was 1950. I was thirteen years 'old' and walking along this beach with Margaret, her brother John and my brother, Peter. When we arrived at the spot where the man is sitting in the photograph, I looked up and saw wallflowers growing on the cliff face.
I decided to climb up and pick some for Margaret. When I became level with the flowers, about fourteen feet above the beach, (it seemed much higher), I held on with my left hand and picked a few with my right.
As locals will know the rock here is very loose and crumbly, and the piece I was holding onto came away in my hand. I remember ...read more here
A memory of Portishead contributed by Tony Warren
Extracts From Clevedon & Avon books
Walton Castle stands to the north-east of Clevedon in the middle of what is now a golf course. Despite its looks, Walton was never a fortress; it is an early example of a folly, ‘a useless and needlessly extravagant structure’, though many have argued that follies are not useless if they give pleasure and arouse interest. Explorers of follies should take extreme care: though many are maintained, others have been neglected, and are dangerous with crumbling walls, rotten timbers etc.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".
In late Victorian tour guides, Clevedon was noted for its good beach, its pier, and the surrounding countryside, which was considered to be exceptionally beautiful. At only five miles from Portishead, thirteen miles from Bristol and fifteen miles from Weston-super-Mare, Clevedon was well placed to attract day trippers.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".
Clevedon’s immunity from the heavy excursion element which affects many seaside towns renders it a veritable haven of rest. The most popular and fashionable part of the promenade is that known as the Green Beach. It consists of an extensive plateau of greensward, about 40ft above the shelving beach, and provided with an elegant band-stand, a plantation, and a very handsome drinking-fountain.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Seaside".
By 1892, cycling had become a popular pastime thanks to the introduction of the Safety bicycle. Introduced in 1884, the first Safeties had equal-sized wheels and solid tyres, the latter causing serious vibration problems. However, in 1888 Dunlop brought out their pneumatic tyre, and the cycling craze was on; hotels and inns were soon displaying signs saying ‘cyclists welcome’.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".
Clevedon was where Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sara Fricker spent their honeymoon in 1795. They stayed for two months, not unusually long by honeymoon standards of the day for those who had wealth or position; Sir Charles Monck and his bride honeymooned for two years. In the 1790s, Coleridge was a radical journalist and romantic poet, and his opium addiction lay somewhere in the future.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".