Gordano Civic Society
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Book list for Gordano Civic Society Library
No. |
Title |
Author |
1 |
Fred Weatherly Songs |
|
2 |
Abbots Leigh |
William Evans |
3 |
Cirencester |
Alex Clifton Taylor |
4 |
The Making of a Manor |
Denys Forrest |
5 |
The Churchyard Carvers Art |
Martin Johnson |
6 |
Scouting around Portishead |
John Rickard |
7 |
Down the Garden Path |
Linda Hall |
8 |
Portishead Pancake Money |
John Haysom |
9 |
The Book of Portishead |
Looseley & Brown |
10 |
Portishead Census Returns for 1861 |
|
11 |
A Tale of Gordano |
Eve Wigan |
12 |
At the Port of Bristol |
W G Neale |
13 |
Electricity in Bristol 1863-1948 |
Peter G Lamb |
14 |
Industrial History in Pictures – Bristol |
Angus Buchanan & Neil Cossons |
15 |
A Hundred Years in the Saddle |
Stephen Foulkes |
16 |
Broadmead |
Mike Hooper |
17 |
The Medieval Friaries, Hospitals & Chapelries of Bristol |
Joseph Bettey |
18 |
The Blue Maids Orphanage |
Mary Wright |
19 |
Shapwick & Winscombe – ALHA 12 |
Mick Aston |
20 |
Satan’s Kingdom – Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade |
Pip Jones |
21 |
The Portishead Coal Boats |
Michael T Winter |
22 |
A History of Maritime Forts in the Bristol Channel 1866 – 1900 |
|
23 |
Historical Notes of Portishead |
Henry Carr |
24 |
Bristol on old postcards – Vol 2 |
|
25 |
Bristol on old postcards – Vol 3 |
|
26 |
Bristol in the 1880s |
Reece Winstone |
27 |
Bristol in the 1940s |
Reece Winstone |
28 |
Bristol as it was 1914 - 1900 |
|
29 |
Bristol under Blitz |
Alderman THJ Underdown |
30 |
Bristol as it was 1939 - 1914 |
Reece Winstone |
31 |
Growing up in Totterdown 1922 – 1936 |
Elsie Lawrence |
32 |
The Edwardian Home |
|
33 |
Not all came back – A Somerset farmer’s son at Gallipoli |
|
34 |
Clevedon – Places and Faces |
Rob Campbell |
35 |
Clevedon – Medieval Manor to Victorian Resort |
Rob Campbell |
36 |
Clevedon at War 1939 – 1945 |
Rob Campbell |
37 |
Through my Eyes – The Inside story of UK 2001 Foot & Mouth crisis |
David Barrah |
38 |
Portishead Parish Magazine |
|
39 |
Victorian Buildings in Bristol |
Clare Crick |
40 |
Before the Lake – Memories of the Chew Valley |
Lesley Ross |
41 |
St Peter and St Paul, Weston in Gordano |
William King |
42 |
Beyond the Lights – Memories of Portishead Players |
Betty MacGregor |
43 |
Clevedon – From the Village to the Town |
|
44 |
The Bristol Pilots |
John Rich |
45 |
New Directions in Local History since Hoskins |
C. Dyer |
46 |
Adge – King of the Wurzels |
John Hudson |
47 |
The Bristol Dock Company 1803 – 1848 |
Peter Malpass |
48 |
The Somerset Home Guard |
Jeffrey Wilson |
49 |
Trenches to Trams |
Clive Burlton |
50 |
Portishead Public Art Trail |
Steve Rogers |
51 |
Somerset’s Lost Railway |
W C & P Railway Group |
52 |
In Sunshine and Shadow |
Anthony Mann |
53 |
Morning Stars of the Reformation – ALHA 8 |
Joe Bettey |
54 |
The Friends to Literature – ALHA 7 |
|
55 |
St James Fair 1137 – 1837 – ALHA 16 |
|
56 |
Responses to the Reformation 1530 – 1603 – ALHA 11 |
|
57 |
Redland: the making of a Victorian suburb – ALHA 10 |
|
58 |
The Bristol Microscopists and the cholera epidemic of 1849 – ALHA 9 |
|
59 |
Dr Goodeve and Cook’s Folly – ALHA 4 |
|
60 |
The Bristol Dock Company 1803 – 1848 – ALHA 5 |
|
61 |
Homoeopathy in Bristol 1840 – 1925 – ALHA 15 |
|
62 |
For the benefit of the Children – ALHA 6 |
|
63 |
Bristol Politics in the age of Peel 1832 – 1847 – ALHA 17 |
|
64 |
Felt hatting in Bristol & South Gloucestershire 1: The Fall – ALHA 14 |
|
65 |
Village in Transition: Abbots Leigh 1911 – 1921 – ALHA 20 |
|
66 |
Felt Hatting in Bristol & South Gloucestershire – The Rise – ALHA 13 |
|
67 |
Portishead and Around through time |
Will Musgrave |
68 |
Natural history in Action No. 1: A Guide to Weston Big Wood |
Bill Dixon |
69 |
Don’t tell I, Tell ‘ee |
Roger Evans |
70 |
Alternative Annals of Avon History – ALHA 3 |
|
71 |
Military Archaeology |
Terry Gander |
72 |
J S Fry |
Frenchay Museum |
73 |
Bedminster Tobacco Women |
Helen Thomas, Rosie Tomlinson, Mavis Zutshi |
74 |
BIAS Journal |
|
75 |
Steepholm |
Kenneth Allsop Trust and John Fowles |
76 |
Bristol and Avon Archaeology |
|
77 |
A History of Yatton |
Jeff Bishop |
78 |
Bristol Through Maps |
Jeff Bishop |
79 |
From Brygstow to Bristol in 45 Bridges |
Jeff Lucas & Thilo Gross |
80 |
The Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Railway – Then & Now |
Paul Gregory |
81 |
Traditional Houses of Somerset |
Jane Penoyre |
82 |
Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England |
Mark Hailwood |
83 |
Historical Notes of Portishead |
Henry Carr |
These books are available to borrow at our meetings
Mhome |
Interpretation |
Weatherly |
PS gates |
Posset Pieces |
Posset Pieces2 |
Posset Pieces3 |
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