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A bundle of 7 local North Somerset towns/villages
Downend, Bristol
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Book 1
197 pages by Rosie and Howard Smith, (Autographed by both inside)
North Somerset Coast in Watercolours, Sand Bay to Hotwells lock.
First edition 2005 which starts with Acknowledgements.
Chapter 1 From Worlebury to Kewstoke.
Chapter 2 Sand Bay.
Chapter 3 Snd Point, Middle Hope and St Thomas's Head.
Chapter 4 Woodspring.
Chapter 5 Wick St Lawrence and Puxton.
Chapter 6 The Warths of Wick and Kingston Seymour.
Chapter 7 Congresbury and the River Yeo.
Chapter 8, Yatton.
Chapter 9, Kingston Seymour.
Chapter 10, Hooks Ear to Kenn and Clevedon Pill.
Chapter 11, Clevedon Wains Hill to Salthouse Bay.
Chapter 12, Clevedon Salthouse Bay to Clevedon Pier.
Chapter 13, Clevedon - Dial Hill.
Chapter 14. Clevedon - Old Church Hill to Clevedon Court.
Chapter 15 The Gordano Valley.
Chapter 16 Ladye Bay to Black Nore Point.
Chapter 17, Portishead sugar loaf beach to Battery Point.
Chapter 18 From Posset to the Portishead Quays
Chapter 19 Sheepway and Portbury.
Chapter 20 The King Road into Pill.
Chapter 21 Ham green to the Hotwell Locks
Epilogue.
Bibiography.
Book 2 The everlasting Picture Show by Maurice Thornton. 2005.
136 pages, Slip Case ( Small torn bit in bottom left corner Front)
The Story of Cinema in Clevedon and Portishead.
Contents
Authors Note.
Preface,
Prologue
Clevedon
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Showmen and Entrepreneurs.
Chapter 3 The first picture house.
Chapter 4 The second Picture House 1920 - 1922.
Chapter 5 The Picture House 1923 - 1930.
Chapter 6 The Talkies.
Chapter 7 1930 - 1945.
Chapter 8 Years of War.
Chapter 9 The Maxime and the Curzon.
Chapter 10 Curzon Community Cinema.
Chapter 11 People, Events - Life and Legends.
Chapter 12 The Oak Room Cafe.
Chapter 13 Clevedon in the Movies
Chapter 14 The Everlasting Picture Show.
Portishead.
Chapter 1 Introduction.
Chapter 2 he Assembly Hall.
Chapter 3 Portishead Cinema Ltd.
Chapter 4 Conclusion
Appendices.
Book 3.
Booklet "Victorian Somerset - John Hodges A Farm Labourer.
by Ann Heeley and Martyn Brown. 1978
This Booklet tells the life story of one farm labourer from the village of Butleigh during the reign of Queen Victoria.
28 pages (including front and rear covers which are printed on.
Book 4
Tyntesfield Local Memories and Research
Compiled for Nailsea and District Local History Society by Peter Wright.
(Pennant Special No 8)
There are a couple of tares on the front cover.
40 pages,
page 2 Contents and list of illustrations.
page 3 Tyntesfield - Local Memories and research.
page 4 Nearby attractions in North Somerset.
page 5 yntesfield.
page 6 Tyntesfield - The Family of Tynte.
page 11 Belmont and Hannah More. + Family of Gibbs,
page 15 Tynte's Place.
page 18, Tyntesfield - The Second World War and Later. + A Land Army Girl at Tyntesfield.
pages 20 & 21 1932 Ordinance Survey Map.
page 25 The Filton Raid 25th Sept 1940.
page 26 The American General Hospital at Tyntesfield.
page 30, After World War II + Tyntesfield Park.
Page 33 A Tribute to the Late Lord Wraxall.
Page 35 Tyntesfield - Rogation Day Memories.
Page 36 Failand Inn.
page 40 Sources.
Book 5
Local Ghosts (True stories of odd happenings (Revised Edition)
compiled by Margaret Royal and Ian Girvan
Second Impression April 1986.
page 3 Introduction.
page 4 The House of the Cursed Wind and other stories.
page 8 The Man in the Black Hat.
page 10 Lord Howe Lingers On.
page 11 Is that you Ebenezer Ash?
page 12 Horror on the A4. + The Case of the Remorseful Retainer.
page 13. Strange Happenings in Two Bristol Pubs.
page 14 The Haunted Inn (Glastonbury)
page 16 Bunty of the Beehive.
page 17 The Phantom Piper of Sydney Place.
page 18, The Fatal Pint. + Wordsworth Lady.
page 19 The Terrified Diner.
page 20, The Lady in Grey + The Nun of Larkhall Place.
page 21 The Story of Sally, + The Black Figure.
page 22 Black and White Shapes at the Royal Oak,
page 23 The Watcher by the Bed. + Supernaturally in Avalon.
page 25 Sceptics Beware.
page 26 A Fiery Haunt.
page 27 The Vanishing Trick + The Thrifty Phantom.
page 28 The Phantom Hiker.
page 29 Why a family Fled in Terror.
page 30 Tragedy and Murder in York Street.
page 31 The Spectre at No 3.
Book 6
T'aint Christmas
100 years of The Owls of Pill Carol Party by Alan Vowles.
209 pages
1st Edition 2019.
T'aint Christmas T'il y've 'erd The Owls.
Formed in the village of Pill and this book celebrates the Owls 100 year Anniversary
Book 7
Abbots Leigh A Village History Manor, Estate, Community by William Evans,
150 pages Abbots Leigh Civic Society 2002.
Part 1 Manor.
Part 2 Estate.
Part 3 Community.
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