Kingston Seymour
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Weston-super-Mare Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Did You Know? Bath - A Miscellany
Hardback
Weston-super-Mare Photographic Memories
Paperback
Kingston Seymour memories
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Architectural notes
As a former resident of Bath I recall that this building was not particularly liked. In 1959 the hotel was demolished and a block of 33 flats at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor level with shops at the ground floor was built. The quality of building work and the amenities of the building was exceptional and included electric underfloor heating beneath parquet floors in the main living room and an air extractor system to bathrooms and kitchens without external windows. The two side wings of the property housed lifts serving the three floors and also included very convenient rubbish chutes. There was also an entryphone system - a relatively new concept in Britain ...read more here
A memory of Bath contributed by Dr K Mackenzie
Annual visit
My parents, Fred & Marjorie La Touche, always took us to visit our great aunt & uncle Curtis,who lived at Cottage of Content in Harris Barton.At one time this was a pub, (perhaps someone has a photo of it ) but then it was a smallholding. Coming from the town of Swindon, it was marvellous to be able to go & pick plums from the orchard & tomatoes from the greenhouses. We used to arrive by train at Coalpit heath & walk from there under the viaduct & across the fields, which were always full of cows. Now there is a housing estate on the field. There were always gypsies camping at the back of the smallholding, down by the brook. ...read more here
A memory of Frampton Cotterell contributed by rose perry
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
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
Extracts From Kingston Seymour & Avon books
Like the city of Durham, Shrewsbury was founded on a peninsula of high ground almost completely surrounded by water. As Pengwern, it was a principal stronghold of the Princes of Powys until the late 8th century, when it fell to the Mercians. For the next five hundred years or so, Shrewsbury, like Hereford and Chester, would be an English frontier town; it was fought for by Welsh patriots, Normans and rebellious barons alike. It was to Shrewsbury in 1283 that Dafydd ap Gruffydd, brother of the late Llywelyn, Prince of Wales, was brought captive from Rhuddlan Castle, to be tried, found guilty, and hung, drawn and quartered.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".
The steep Wyle Cop links the English Bridge with the High Street. In this splendid picture we can see a number of half-timbered buildings, including Wyle Cop Store, Dale & Sons, and the Nag’s Head. It was in a half-timbered house near the top of the street in August 1485 that Henry Tudor spent the night before riding on to Bosworth to do battle and win the Crown.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".
Before the Great War, rooms at the Raven were the most expensive in Shrewsbury, starting from 4s 6d; yet for some reason now lost to us, dinner here (at 2s 6d) was the cheapest among the hotels (3s 6d minimum at the George). Anyway, the Raven is not remembered for its culinary offerings, but as the place where Farquhar wrote his play ‘The Recruiting Officer’.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".
High street shoppers in 1931 were finding that prices were continuing to fall back to their pre-Great War levels. Between 1914 and 1920 there had been huge increases in the prices of even the most basic of foodstuffs. At the butcher’s a pound of streaky bacon had cost 1s 3d in 1914, 2s 7d in 1920, but had fallen back to 1s 7d by 1931. Similarly, a dozen eggs had cost 1s 3d in 1914, 4s 6d in 1920, but again had fallen back to 2s by 1931.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".
The Boat House Inn ferry offered a more sedate way of crossing the Severn than by the nearby Kingsland Bridge.
An extract from from"Down the Severn Photographic Memories".