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  1. Avonmouth Docks POSTCARD The Victoria and Albert, with the King on Board, after breaking the Ribbon at the Engrance of the Docks, Avonmouth, July 9th, 1908. Black and white photo showing two-masted ship accompanied by smaller boats, spectators on quay in distance. Title in white as above... together with... VISIT OF H.M. The King and Queen to open the Royal Edward Dock, Avonmouth, July 9th, 1908. Shows the King and Queen with platform party, flags, flowers. 2 items. 1908. £10.00

  2. Brislington THE ADVENTURES FEELINGS AND IMPRESSIONS of a girl known to her friends as Babs. Diary of a girl from Brislington who trains to be a teacher. Jan. 1909 - Feb. 1912. 8vo notebook, stiff wraps, most of spine missing. 124 full pages. Describes the domestic round at home, sewing, parties, shopping, visits, etc, 'Go to Sneyd Park. Have a glorious time. Huge compliments paid to me 'the most sensible girl in Bristol' etc. Drive round sea walls then home'. She goes off to college (which appears to be at Christ Church, near Bournemouth). Describes classes, exams etc., her nervousness about observed lessons, etc. She often describes her feelings: 'Babs Morgan has changed. The old college Babs was much happier and easier to please...'. On completion of the course she finds a job in a girls Reformatory School, in Exeter, then to Wick Road Girls School in Bristol, and after to St. Luke's Bedminster 'the girls are poor, naughty, but humourous. I think I shall manage them'. Loosely inserted are a letter, and a photograph of a young woman. 1909-12. £75.00
    'Feb. 10th 1912. Went to Ireland. D. Lane proposed - would not accept. Hugh Nasmyth went to Borneo'.

  3. Bristol Aeroplane Company OLYMPUS Turbojet Engine. Brochure, size 9" x 12", 15pp., glossy card wraps, numerous full plate illustrations, and photos in the text. c1958. £22.00
    'The latest version... has been selected to power the Avro Vulcan B Mark 2 bomber, which will form the spearhead of Bomber Command'.

  4. Bristol Carnival LADY WHITE'S STALL Black and white postcard. Shows highly decorated floral cabin with sign 'Lady White' on roof, with seven elaborately dressed ladies with trays. A few foxing spots at bottom... with... Bristol Carnival. Bridge over Lake. Shows wooden bridge and fountain in lake, many flags, two men in foreground... with... Bristol Carnival. Ball Room... with... Pageant of Bristol. 'The Empire Girls'. Photo by Knighton & Cutts. Shows approx. 150 women lined up in medieval costume in a park. Title in white. Last two postcards unused. 4 items. c1905. £15.00

  5. Bristol Chronology COMMONPLACE BOOK containing manuscript entries on Bristol history and other matters, in a 4to notebook, as follows: (i) Extracts from the "Mayor's Kalendar", 37p plus Appendix of 25p. (ii) Chronology of Bristol events, 1816-1850. 57p. This seems to be original work by the owner of the book, and entries, judging from the handwriting, were made over a period of time. Includes observations not mentioned in Latimer, for example, 1p on the 'Pedestrian Curricle' exhibited at the Princes Street Assembly Rooms, 1819, with a very small watercolour illustration pasted in; a detailed description of the Duke of Wellington's entry into the city, July 1816; '23rd Oct. 1817 On this night the William and Mary Packet bound for Waterford with 60 persons on board was wrecked in the Bristol Channel.. the mate in charge of the vessel.. gave the Helm to a seaman who was unacquainted with the Channel while he himself was playing with a female on board...'; 3p on the 'Bristol Society for promoting the due observance of the Sabbath', 1819; paragraph on the weather in Bristol on Christmas Day 1833, etc. At the other end of the book are:- (iii) 19p on European events, in 1815. (iv) 5p on the writer's beliefs as a Unitarian, preaching etc. 'On Sunday 10 Augt. 1817 Died J.P. Estlin LLD. Minister of the Unitarian Christians Lewins Mead Bristol. He was succeeded in his pastoral duties by Dr. Carpenter of Exeter who preached his opening Sermon on Friday 20 July 1817 from 2 Corinth. 4-5. Dr. Estlin had retired from the Ministry only a few weeks previous to his death and the first burial at which Dr. Carpenter officiated was that of his predecessor..'. (v) 18p of extracts from a work on singing, with some lines of manuscript music. (vi) 3 letters on religious matters, to the Editor of the Christian Reformer, with notes on pages where they appeared etc. (under the name 'Juvenis') initialled 'W.P', 1818. 7p. (vii) 11p on ailments and prescriptions for cures (containing Latin names for ingredients suggesting some pharmaceutical knowledge). 4to, half reversed calf, very rubbed, lacks most of spine, marbled boards, hinges cracked, front board detached, some pages at beginning loose due to front board being detached. Paper watermarked 1815. 1816-50. £250.00
    'The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar' was begun by the town clerk, Robert Ricart, in 1478, and was a chronicle of the foundation of the city up till his own day. The extracts here mention events such as the plague, street cleaning measures, a ship from 'Catay' arriving laden with gold etc. The author's account of contemporary events 1816-50 includes observations of the weather 'July 31, 1825. The weather has been remarkably dry. The face of the Country is completely barren nothing green to be seen but trees & Hedges... the ponds have long been dry & the Cattle are getting very lean...'; the trial of Colonel Brereton after the riots 'He was a mild and amiable man in private life and not adapted to the situation of commander of the Troops during the Riots'; deaths from Cholera, projected railroad from London; laying the foundation stone of the Suspension Bridge, 1836, etc. Apart from the initials 'W.P.' there is no indication of the writer's identity. He was no doubt a Unitarian. Inscription of later owner inside front board, and modern ownership stamp of another owner.

  6. Bristol International Exhibition POSTCARD International Pavilion. Black and white view, large crowds in front of the pavilion. Unused. 1914. £5.00
    Ill-fated Exhibition opened in May 1914, and closed in August just after the declaration of hostilities.

  7. Bristol Rovers MR. A. LE FRE'S FOOTBALL TEAM A Souvenir of the Great Charity Football Match Played on the Bristol Rovers Ground, 8th March 1905. Black and white photo showing team in fancy dress, printed title down sides. Clifton postmark. 1905. £15.00

  8. Budgett & Co. BETWEEN OURSELVES A Monthly Interchange of News and Comments Between Members of the Staff of H.H. & S. Budgett & Co. Ltd in H.M. Forces and their Colleagues at Home. 53 cyclostyled newsletters, approx. 6pp., foolscap, in each, pages held with rusty paperclips. Begins at No. 6, Dec. 1940, ends with No. 60, Jan. 1946. (Nos. 1-5 and 30 missing, nos. 17-18 published together). 1940-46. £20.00
    Budgett's were large wholesale provision merchants. The newsletters are well-written and full of interesting detail e.g. May 1941 "A customer in Somerset when weighing out Rice from a bag received from us, struck his scoop against an unexploded Incendiary Bomb.... This bag was delivered by our motor from Nelson Street or Pylle Hill and it appears that the bomb must have penetrated deeply into the bag'.

  9. Clifton Cinema POSTCARD showing The Victoria Rooms when it was used as a cinema. Black and white photographic postcard by A.G.S. & Co. Bristol, titled 'Victoria Rooms & Royal Colonial Institute, Clifton'. There is a sign 'Kinema' on the front of the building... with a photographic card by Alfred Wager, Dolphin Studios, Bristol, showing a man standing in front of a large curtain in an elaborate dark uniform, pillbox hat. On the back someone has written 'Cinema usher'. Both unused. c1920. £15.00
    The 'Clifton Cinema' was open between 1919 and 1922.

  10. Clifton MORTGAGE of a plot of ground and four messuages erected thereon, nos. 3,4,5 & 6 Oakfield Villas, Oakfield Place, Edward Mason to James Sinnott. Large vellum sheet, wax seal. 1880. £6.00

  11. Clifton OFFICE EXTRACT OF RECOVERY Jonathan Harwood demandeth against Thomas Ward Six Messuages Six Gardens.... Fifty Acres of Pasture Twenty Acres of Wood One hundred acres of Furze and Heath.... in Clifton. 1p, blank conjoint leaf with docket title. Impressed tax stamp. Michaelmas Term 1784. £14.00
    Extracted c1816.

  12. Clifton Rocks Railway TWO POSTCARDS black and white photographic postcards. One titled 'Interior of Clifton Rocks Railway' showing a car descending, with a part of ascending car on the right, the other 'Clifton Rocks Railway, Hotwells', showing the entrance to the railway, with people, bridge in the distance, trolley bus '210' outside. Latter card unused. c1910. £16.00

  13. Clifton Wood LEASE for a year of land part of an orchard near the road leading from Bristol to the Hotwells, and a piece of woody ground, part of Clifton Wood, Charlotta Punter to Thomas Coates. Large vellum sheet, 3 wax seals. 1789. £14.00

  14. Cotham CONVEYANCE of a plot of land at Cotham, B.J. Frankis to Wm. Stephens. Large vellum sheet, signed with wax seals. In text is a sketch plan, size 10" x 8". The land formed an entrance to 'The Cottage' at Cotham. 1878. £12.00
    'The Cottage' was in fact a large house.

  15. Doctor Owen's Lands COPY OF A LEASE of 1808 granted by Sir John Durbin, Edward Brice, Levi Ames and others, Aldermen and Councillors of the City of Bristol of the rents of Doctor Owen's Lands, for the maintenance of certain Poor People within the City. Together with notes of some subsequent deeds. 4«p., 4to, over half the document is written in shorthand. Paper watermarked 1820. £14.00

  16. Eastville Park TWO POSTCARDS Black and white photos. Both show lake, one looking across island, the other with rowing boats. Both used. 2 items. c1910. £9.00

  17. Gloucestershire Regiment POSTCARD Unveiling the Monument to the Heroes of the Gloucestershire Regiment by Field Marshall Lord Roberts... Black and white postcard. A few tiny black dots in sky area. 1905. £10.00
    The statue is in Queen's Road.

  18. Hospital POSTCARD The Royal Visit to Bristol. His Majesty Receiving an Address at the King Edward VII Memorial Infirmary. Photographic postcard with title in white. Unused... with... New Royal Infirmary, Bristol. Black and white postcard. Used. 2 items. 1912. £8.00

  19. Lysaght (John), Limited. AGRICULTURAL FEEDING APPLIANCES Manufactured by John Lysaght, Limited, Galvanized Iron Works, Bristol. Catalogue printed on yellow paper, on both sides of sheet 15" x 17", folded to form brochure 5" x 8". Each item illustrated, with prices listed below. 1902. £18.00
    Upwards of 50 items illustrated. Includes wheelbarrows, water-carriers, garden tables and chairs, hay-racks, troughs.

  20. Mathews's NEW AND CORRECT PLAN OF THE CITY AND SUBURBS OF BRISTOL. Including the Hotwells and Clifton and the New Buildings down to the Present Time. Taken from an actual Survey. Price 1s. Engraved surface approx. 13" x 17«", plus margins, folded to 7" x 4". Title cartouche with floral border, Arms of city and Merchants' Arms. Along the bottom is a list of 57 Public Buildings, Churches etc. numbered on map. Small compass rose, scale bar (4 furlongs = half a mile). 2" repaired tear at right edge. Published as the Act directs by J. Mathews. Augt. 7th 1819. £75.00
    The River Avon runs along the bottom of the map. Extends to Harley Place in Clifton, the Turnpike at Cotham Hill, Stokes Croft, Pennywell Lane, 'Canal & Feeder', New Gaol. There is a larger margin top right where the map was originally bound in a book.

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  21. Paintings and Prints CATALOGUE of Oil Paintings, Water Colour Drawings, Engravings... Photographs... which will be sold by auction at the Athenaeum Sale Room, Corn Street, March 25 & 26, 1887. 12pp., 8vo. 1887. £5.00

  22. Pope family JOSEPH POPE OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL AUCTIONEER and Land Appraiser maketh oath and saith that he is the only surviving child of Joseph Pope late of Bristol Innholder.... Manuscript declaration signed by Joseph Pope about the children of Joseph and Mary Pope. 14 lines, 1p., folio. Blank conjoint leaf. Folds. 1825. £10.00
    Says all the children were buried at the Baptist Burying Ground in Elbroad Street, Bristol.

  23. Postcard PAPER SALLY Bristol. Copyright J.T. Shapland. black and white postcard of Sally in a large black hat, carrying her sack. Title in white. Bottom corners slightly rubbed, and foxing spots on back. Unused. n.d. c1910. £15.00
    Apparently Sally wandered the streets collectimg scrap paper and rags. She died when her house in Deep Street caught fire in 1926. There was a large crowd at her funeral at Greenbank.

  24. Redland MESSRS. H.R. FARGUS AND CO. WILL SELL BY AUCTION on the Premises, Park View, 9 Westfield Park, Redland... the Entire Collection of Choice Modern Paintings, Drawings and Engravings... of Isaac Brett, the well-known collector... Catalogue of 18pp., 8vo. The catalogue has been sewn into blue paper wraps, presumably by the auctioneer, with the amounts due to Brett in manuscript. Many of the prices realised have been pencilled in against the lots. 1872. £18.00
    Includes paintings by Loutherburg, Barker, Danby etc.

  25. Rocque (John) A PLAN OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL SURVEYED AND DRAWN BY JOHN ROCQUE Engrav'd by John Pine MDCCXLII. Large scale plan in four sheets, each sheet 21" x 24", bound in full grained dark red morocco, title 'Rocque's Plan of the City of Bristol 1742.' in gilt on front board and on spine. Leather on spine split down 10" from top at front hing, and 1" from bottom. Marbled endpapers, blank sheets of thick paper bound in at front and back. Large title cartouche with arms of city, figures of Neptune and Mercury, ships in the background. Under this cartouche is another containing a detailed history and description of the city. There is a one-inch border all round, imitating a gilt picture frame, scallop shells at corners. Compass rose, scale bar with scales in feet, perches, yards and furlongs, surmounted by cherubs with globe and dividers. Scale half and inch - 100 feet. View of the Exchange bottom left, with arms of the Merchant Venturers, and another view of the Exchange bottom right, with a cartouche containing description of the building. The top left sheet has a small area of loss at the top right corner, affecting the area just above the Royal Fort, in a triangular shape, stretching at its widest point two and a half inches into the plan, and down five and a half inches down the right edge, two and a half inches along the top edge. The loss affects part of the top decorative border, fields at St. Michaels, and the very top edge of the gardens at the Royal Fort. On the same sheet there is a area of loss of the left border, not obtruding onto the plan itself, and a few browning spots on the right side near Brandon Hill and St. Michaels. On the bottom left sheet there is a repaired tear running about five inches into the plan, going through a blank area in the view of the Exchange. Published March 1743 according to Act of Parliament and sold by the Proprietor Benjamin Hickey Bookseller, Bristol, J. Leake Bookseller in Bath, J. Pine Engraver in Old Bond Street and the Printsellers in London & J. Rocque Surveyor in High Park Road. £1,600
    Shows buildings, parkland with trees, garden plots, glass houses, cranes, churches and chapels, named inns, hospitals, lime kilns, meeting houses, rope walk, pest house, numerous ships shown on the rivers Avon and Frome, high ground shown with hachures. See Pritchard 'Old Plans and Views of Bristol' 1926: The plan is of value for names of buildings, many of which have long since disappeared... There is no possibility of ascertaining how many of the large plan were struck off but we assume that the number was limited as copies are exceedingly rare.'

  26. Saint Philip and Jacob AN ACT for dividing the Parish of Saint Philip and Jacob, in the County of Gloucester, and in the City and County of Bristol; and for erecting a Church in the new intended Parish. Black Letter. Cover leaf + 13pp, disbound, Act of Parliament. 1751. £14.00

  27. St. Paul's THE ECLIPSE 'RAIL-TRACK' LADDER CO. Newfoundland St., St. Paul's, Bristol. Catalogue, 8vo, wraps, 8pp., illustrations. Some minor rubbing on front wrap. c1920. £8.00

  28. Stansbury (J.F), Drawn by A NEW PLAN OF BRISTOL, CLIFTON AND THE HOT WELLS with the recent additions and improvements. Engraved plan, size between borders 9" x 16", plus wide margins with title in top margin and dedication to the Mayor and Recorder, with city coat of arms, in bottom margin. With Reference Table in top left corner listing churches, chapels, public buildings. Tear from right margin reaching half an inch into plan, repaired with archival tape. Plan folded to 7" x 3«". 'Proof' printed bottom right. A few feint foxing spots. n.d. c1860. £25.00
    'Drawn and engraved under the direction of the Revd. John Evans'. This was presumably taken from a guide book.

  29. Stapleton CONVEYANCE of a messuage and hereditaments in Stapleton, William Froom to The Trustees of Thomas Proctor. Vellum sheet, 22" x 27", five fine wax seals showing bust of a gentleman in a ruff. In text is sketch plan, size 6" x 8". 1879. £15.00

  30. Stoke Bishop AGREEMENT between Norton Knatchbull of Babbington in Somerset, and Sir Henry Lippincott of Westbury upon Trim, relating to exchange of lands in Stoke Bishop. 1p., sm. folio, folded with docket title. Signed by representatives of the two parties, witnessed. 1779. £12.00
    Refers to land called High Croft, a land of two acres, with the Tithes, and land called the Old Lease, and Brown's field.

  31. Stoke Bishop OBLIGATION BOND whereby Sir Henry Cann Lippincott of Stoke Bishop is bound to Mary Barnsley of Felton for £14,000. 1p., folio, signed and witnessed, wax sea. Blank conjoint leaf with docket title... together with another bond of Cann Lippincott, to William Danson of Bristol, for £20,000. Printed with manuscript inserts. Wax seal. 1811. 2 items. 1802 and 1811. £16.00

  32. The Dug Out, Colston Street POSTCARD black and white photographic card. Shows low building with sandbags piled above it, large sign pasted on adjacent building, sign over door, about 20 people (most in uniform) standing outside. Unused. E. Stevens, Arley Hill. (1917). £10.00
    The Dug Out was a welfare centre run by volunteers for the Y.M.C.A for soldiers passing through.

  33. Trenchard Street WILL of William Baker of Trenchard Street, Plasterer. 1835. 3p. folio, folded, fastened at top corner with tape. Later copy on paper watermarked 1842. £8.00
    Leaves his house and workshop in Trenchard street to his friends Walter Hughes, of College Green, Cabinet Maker, Charles Fox of Cannon Street, Last Maker and William Hain of the White Ladies in the County of Gloucester, Lime Burner. Also refers to houses in Langton Street Bedminster and Dighton Street.

  34. Were (F) LETTER to 'Dear Pritchard'. No date. 2p., small 8vo. Enquiries whether he has seen a silver alms dish engraved with monkeys and dragons ('there is nothing ecclesiastical about it'), part of St. John's plate. Mentions a mistake by the illustrator in his book. c1920. £5.00

  35. Western Daily Press Advert IT'S YOUR MONEY Proposed West Dock Scheme. An Introduction to the Real Facts of the Case. Full page advertisement reprinted from the Western Daily Press of April 15th, 1977 with summaries and forecasts and other articles aiming to prove the scheme would be a failure. 1p., broadsheet size, printed on one side only. Issued by Terry Bryant. 1977. £5.00
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