Henbury
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Map of Avon
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Henbury books (4 available)
Did You Know? Bath - A Miscellany
Hardback
Weston-super-Mare Photographic Memories
Paperback
Bath Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Avon memories
Growing up in Filton
I was born in Plymouth of Welsh parents, there was no work in Newport Wales when my Father got out of the Navy, so, we moved to my Grandparents house in 50 Wallscourt Rd Filton, until our house 13 Canberra Grove Filton became available. My Father along with my Grandfather worked for the BAC, my Dad was a Blacksmith, I remember sometimes on summer nights walking up to meet him from work. I remember my first visit to get my hair cut at the hairdresser's above the corner shop in Filton (sweet & newsagents) I remember running up the road at night in the winter to the off licence with the pretty pink lights to buy my Dad's senior ...read more here
A memory of Filton contributed by Christine Flage
YMCA Agricultural Training Centre Ham Green Pill
In February 1949, my husband Derek travelled from London to start agricultural training at the YMCA Agricultural Training Centre at Ham Green, Pill, on a scheme known as 'British Boys for British Farms'. He arrived at Temple Meads Station, and caught a small train which in those days ran from Bristol to Portishead. Although born in London, he hated the idea of city life, so chose to study farming. One special memory of his time there is of seeing the Severn Bore. He subsequently obtained work at a farm in North Dorset.
Derek would be interested to hear from any other ex-training centre boys. Tel: 01590 681972
A memory of Pill contributed by Rosemary Bennett
School days
I never thought that I would see this building, then an office for the civil service, returned to be residential! I believe the family who once ran this hotel now live in Exeter. If they read this I would love to hear their stories.
A memory of Clifton contributed by sally bennett
wedding
i married gordon blake dec.2nd 1944.we are still together after 63years
A memory of Clifton contributed by patricia blake
Extracts From Henbury & Avon books
This is not so much a castle, more a gentleman’s folly. Blaise, with its four castellated towers, was built in 1771 by Thomas Farr. In 1765 Thomas had been a member of a delegation sent by the Society of Merchant Venturers, of which he later became Master, to deliver a petition to Parliament against the renewal of the Sugar Act. The government intended to use the provisions of the Act to make the American colonies pay for their own defence and to contribute towards the costs of the Seven Years War. The merchants had close links with the colonists, and knew more of American opinion than the entire government put together. They realised that the Act would harm relations with the colonists and damage trade - and they were right.
An extract from from"English Castles".
Now renamed The Abbey Hotel, this terrace of houses became an hotel in 1879. It is part of the elder Wood’s Royal Forum, with its long, formal composition fronting North Parade. In the foreground is the then newly-laid-out area replacing the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, now all paved and occupied by the water fountain of 1839 relocated from Bath Street.
An extract from from"Bath Photographic Memories".
Towards the edge of the village are former Rural District Council houses, now with lusher gardens, and opposite is a former Nonconformist chapel dated 1898. The tour of some villages around Bath is now finished, and you can head back northwards to the city.
An extract from from"Bath Photographic Memories".
This view looks in the opposite direction, east past the Manor House on the left with cottages and the former Ebenezer United Methodist Chapel of 1869 beside the raised and railinged pavement. On the right is St Julian’s Primary School, built in 1852 as the Wellow National School in the then usual Gothic style.
An extract from from"Bath Photographic Memories".
Climbing out of Limpley Stoke, head west through Hinton Charterhouse with its fascinating remains of the 13th-century Carthusian priory, Hinton Priory, to the village of Wellow, four miles south of Bath. This view looks west along the High Street past the Manor House on the right, a good 17th-century house with a tall gabled three-storey chamber wing.
An extract from from"Bath Photographic Memories".