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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
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 ...Read more
A memory of Horton in 1955 by
St James Barton Bristol Bs1 The History
The old St James Barton area of the city was demolished in the late 1950s to make way for Bond Street and the bus station. The rebuilding of the city started almost as soon as the Second World War had ended. ...Read more
A memory of Bristol 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
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These carvel-built, decked smacks could be seen fishing the upper reaches of the Bristol Channel.
Some believe that it is derived from the phosphorescent light effect seen around vessels in the nearby Bristol Channel, sometimes referred to by its Russian name 'St Nicholas's Lights'.
The Basingstoke Canal, constructed between 1788 and 1794, was supposed to be part of a waterway linking the Thames with both the English and Bristol Channels.
Bideford was a busy little quay both for traffic up and down the Taw and Tamar rivers, and for general coasting trade between the north Devon and north Cornwall ports, the Bristol Channel and South
The architectural style is actually one which is common to areas around the Bristol Channel.
By 1848 the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway were keen to promote Brighton as a cross-channel port; they funded the Brighton & Continental Steam Packet Co, though it was soon found that Newhaven
This village's name means 'a ford only available in summer'; the church stands above the Bristol Avon.
