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The N.H.S. Early Years To Retirement
The Transport Department at Southmead Hospital when I joined them consisted of an officer, foreman, and four porter drivers, with two buses, three vans, and two cars. We were responsible for supplying ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1960 by
Wading In The Bristol Channel
It is quite possible that the the little boy to the right in this picture is me at age six. My family used to stay at a friend's caravan in the park above the cliffs. During the summers of 1954 through 1958 we stayed ...Read more
A memory of Lavernock in 1955 by
Channel View
I was born in No 9 Manor Bungalows (The Prefabs), in 1947, Channel View wasn't built then, the area was laid to allotments & then open meadow to Gelli Crescent & Tynycwm Halt Railway platforms. In 1955 the second Phase of ...Read more
A memory of Pontymister in 1955 by
My Young Years In Horton Village
I lived in Horton from the age of two when we moved from Chard. We lived in a cottage just below the village hall opposite the Police house. My dad was Joe Sparks, and my mum was Joyce, I had an elder sister ...Read more
A memory of Horton in 1955 by
To Sea
The Seagoing Years. I must have left the Army sometime in August or September of 1949, and went back to C.J.King & son, tug owners, to carry on with my job as deck boy. This was not to my ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1950 by
Leaving School
So! Back to 11 Woburn Place, back to school on Hope Chapel Hill back to Hotwells golden mile with its 15 pubs. The War was still going on but there was only limited bombing and some daylight raids, the city was in a dreadful state ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1945 by
Second World War Bombing
My father, Dr Joe Hampson, was the Gp in Gilfach in the late 1930s/early 1940s. He was Irish and born in Lucan just outside Dublin. He qualified from the College of Surgeons in 1932. He met my mother, Frances Pugsley, ...Read more
A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1940 by
Growing Up
I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1930 by
Bristol's Loveliest Church, St Mary Redcliffe.
St Mary Redcliffe Church. Bristol's loveliest church, St Mary Redcliffe, was described as 'the fairest, the goodliest and most famous parish church in England' by Queen Elizabeth I in 1574. Thanks to ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1880 by
St John's Gate Broad Street
St John's Gate in Broad Street in Bristol is the only surviving medieval city gateway, at one one time there were seven gates into the old city. Fortified gateways pierced the town wall at intervals. St John's Gateway, ...Read more
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It was Abraham Darby's partners, Quaker merchants from Bristol, who put up most of the £3500 needed to establish Coalbrookdale Ironworks.
The south front of St Donat's overlooks the Bristol Channel, and a series of terraced gardens lead down to the shore.
Pictured here in really what was the twilight of its golden age, the pier had long been the point of embarkation for daytrips to destinations along the Bristol Channel.
The river rises high in these hills, but only a few miles from the Bristol Channel.
In 1887 Peter and Alexander Campbell decided to relocate their excursion steamer business from Scotland to the relatively untapped Bristol Channel, where they soon came to dominate the market.
In World War II the castle was the HQ for Pluto - Pipe Line Under The Ocean - an operation which ran fuel from Liverpool through Wales and across the Bristol Channel and eventually supplied the fleet
Built in 1947, the Bristol Queen was considered to be the ultimate in paddle steamer design, and was never to be replaced.
The Grand Western Canal was part of a grandiose scheme to link the Bristol and English Channels between Taunton and Exeter.
St John the Baptist stands high above the Bristol Channel on windswept Countisbury Common.
Sailing ships from Bristol once plied up and down its channel and berthed at the town wharves.
These were a feature of the Bristol Channel in Victorian times, and a preserved one still visits occasionally today.
If the billowing empty deck chair is any guide, the wind is whistling up the Bristol Channel and through the Promenade Gardens.
It has been used over the centuries as a landmark buy ships in the Bristol Channel.
Over the hills in the distance lie Ilfracombe and the Bristol Channel.
In the foreground on the beach is a Punch and Judy show, an evergreen attraction which here appears in danger of being swept away by the boisterous Bristol Channel swell.
If the billowing empty deck chair is any guide, the wind is whistling up the Bristol Channel and through the Promenade Gardens.
by enabling coal from the Forest of Dean to be transported across to Sharpness, from where it was shipped inland up the canal to Gloucester and the Midlands, or exported by sea via the Bristol Channel
At Stourport, cargoes were transhipped between Staffs & Worcs narrowboats and Severn trows - these were sailing barges that operated to and from the Bristol Channel ports.
Portleven was noted for building pilchard drivers and Bristol Channel pilot cutters.
Along the latter runs the wide Esplanade, with extensive views across the Bristol Channel.
From Tenby, Lundy is obscured by Caldey Island (which we see here off shore), but beyond lies Lundy, some 25 miles off and clearly visible on a clear day, rising 400 feet up out of the Bristol Channel
Although often referred to as a storm, one school of thought maintains that this was in fact a tsunami caused by an earthquake in the Bristol Channel.
Weston-super-Mare sits at the edge of the Bristol Channel, opposite the nature reserve island of Steepholm.
Weston-super-Mare sits at the edge of the Bristol Channel, opposite the nature reserve island of Steepholm.
