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The Life of Edwin Fray, 1833-

I am now starting on a short history of my early life of what I remember about the District of Keynsham where I worked and what I did, also some of the chief events...
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‘Non-affectionate’ memories of H.H. & S. Budgett

As told to me by the late Leslie Phillips, 1905-1995. Leslie said “I worked for H.H. & S. Budgett from October 1927 to May 1928. I was their first graduate entrant, having come straight...
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Sappho & Her Sisters: Steamships and Mariners of the Bristol Channel Ports in the Age of Steam

I wrote the above book, “Sappho & her Sisters” following a chance discovery of the seamen belonging to Bristol Steam Navigation Company’s ship “Sappho” who had the misfortune to be “Bottled Up” in Hamburg...
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Kingswood Index

Beware Family History! In the early stages of my research, nearly fifty years ago, long, long before computers, even before the majority of parish registers found their way into archives offices, when appointments had...
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Monumental Inscriptions: Whitfield Tabernacle, Kingswood

The following names were inscribed on gravestones at Whitfield Tabernacle, Kingswood. As sent to me, provenance and date unknown. These are the known people whose gravestones are set to be relocated” THOMAS BRITTON 1893...
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Killed in a Coalpit II – Lives of the Somerset Miners

This book has been written as a companion volume to ‘Killed in a Coalpit – Lives of the Kingswood Miners’. It was scheduled for publication in 2020 but became a victim of Covid 19...
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Alas, poor Pretty One

In the summer of 1788 Henry Watts sued William Luton in respect of Rights of Common on Rodway Hill, Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire. The court heard that in 1754 the estate was let to Luton’s father...
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Bristol and Lubeck

The people of medieval Bristol were so closely linked to a German port in the Baltic Sea that the two populations shared a unique type of worm living in their guts. The bizarre discovery...
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Remarkable Women: Following the Drum. Biddy Skiddy – Hannah Scuse

I became interested in the Peninsular War period through the TV series “Sharpe”. This is predominately a male tale of derring-do but when visiting the National Army Museum in London (www.nam.ac.uk) I discovered the...
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Diverted by the Bristol “L” – a tale of the Keynsham Workhouse

My great great grandfather Henry FRAY was so afraid of being incarcerated in Keynsham Workhouse that he fatally cut his throat with a razor in 1900. “The Workhouse” cast a terrible shadow over the...
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