Shirehampton
Shirehampton photos (16 available)
Shirehampton maps (2 available)
Map of Avon
Beautifully hand-drawn and coloured, dating from around 1840
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Shirehampton books (5 available)
Weston-super-Mare Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Did You Know? Bath - A Miscellany
Hardback
Weston-super-Mare Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Shirehampton memories
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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
Happy days in Hotwells
I was born at 5 Rosemount Terrace, Hotwells, no longer there. I remember Harry Eavans, the paper shop, all the shops. The oub, the spring gardens, the flying fox. Oh happy days. Clifton National School, that was many years ago. I am 82 years old. My name was Pat Smith, now Pat Blake. I wish I could find a DVD of old Bristol.
A memory of Hotwells contributed by patricia blake
Extracts From Shirehampton & Avon books
By 1939, boundary changes had resulted in Avonmouth and Shirehampton being incorporated into Bristol. After the Great War, Housing Acts provided local authorities with government funding to build houses, which opened up areas such as the Sea Mills Estate to residential development. Between the wars Bristol built 14,200 houses; private developers built a further 22,000.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".
20th-century estates have all but joined Shirehampton to Bristol and Avonmouth. The original 18th-century nucleus around the High Street and the church was still enclosed by orchards and elms in 1950, and Georgian houses still overlook a green.
An extract from from"Somerset Living Memories".
This is the main road
through the village looking
towards Hutton Hill. The
white cottage on the left
used to be the Post Office,
before it was moved to the
other side of the road in
the 1930s.
An extract from from"Weston-super-Mare Photographic Memories".
This view looks west along Main Road. In the distance a lorry is being loaded with
milk churns from Old Post Office Farm. In 1900 there were twelve farms in the
village, all with dairy herds. Now just three are left.
An extract from from"Weston-super-Mare Photographic Memories".
Another view that clearly shows the 1883 promenade and sea wall. Before this was
built, the beach stretched much further inland and sand dunes often formed as far
as Regent Street. On the sands, donkeys wait for riders, as they have done since
the earliest days of the resort.
An extract from from"Weston-super-Mare Photographic Memories".