“Come Out with Me”, Then and Now.
- Long Reads, Mendip
- 25 June 2024
About Me
I have been researching the social history of the West Country for 45 years. During this time I have collated information on a wide range of people living and working in the West Country including miners, ethnic minorities, petty criminals, sailors, tommies, benefactors, brassmakers and many more. The thing that I find amazing is that ordinary people always lived extraordinary lives. I hope you like my blog that brings together my lifetime of research.
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- Aircraft-Per (1)
- Australia (6)
- Bedminster (4)
- Benefactors (3)
- Brassmakers (3)
- Brislington & St Anne's (13)
- Bristol History (6)
- Convicts & Transportees (5)
- Ethnic minorities (13)
- Felons & Miscreants (8)
- Hanham (2)
- Immigrants (7)
- Kingswood (25)
- Knowle & Totterdown (4)
- Long Reads (27)
- Mendip (2)
- Miners (19)
- My family history (24)
- My Pillinger Women (5)
- Peninsular War (5)
- Pets & Animals (4)
- Police (1)
- Preachers (1)
- Sailors (14)
- Soldiers (6)
- Sport, Leisure & Pastimes (9)
- Uncategorised (1)
- Warmley, Bitton & Keynsham (6)
- Women (22)
- World War I (7)
- World War II (2)
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The dashing, young Charles Rose Perrett!
20 October 2024Gleson/Glisson Family of Brislington
06 October 2024The Fantastical Kingswood Park: Then and Now
28 September 2024Favourite Quote
Death may our souls divide From these abodes of day But love shall keep us near his side Through all the gloomy way.
The epitaph on the gravestone of James Pillinger - the sight of which started me of on my journey of discovery 49 years ago!Favourite Quote
A man (or woman) is not dead while his name is still spoken.
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Tina Turner and now Glenda Jackson. Two of my heroes. I can't allow my contemporaries to keep dying. It really affects me.