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Inebriated Women
published by Pat Hase - 5 months 14 days ago.

Have any of you been researching these women or have advice for me to pass on to the student who contacted us for help?


Murder of Thomas BECKET
published by Pat Hase - 5 months 17 days ago.

Many thank for this suggestion.  I have sent it to the peson concerned and they were very grateful.


Murder of Thomas BECKET
published by uphill - 5 months 20 days ago.

This post caught my eye as not long ago - just days  - I was in  St Marys Church , Mortehoe ,North Devon -one I have visited many times - it contains a tomb of a Sir William de TRACY - thought to be one of the 4 knights who murdered Becket- there is much DISCUSSION on this !!

I have always been fascinated because of the link with Fitzurse and Woodspring Priory (which I know well).

I suggest that whoever is interested in de Tracy pays a visit to Mortehoe.


Austin Mitchell - 1869 - 1904
published by Pat Hase - 6 months 0 day ago.

Do try the newspapers - there are several entries about this, including ths one 

There was  concert soon afterwards to raise money for his widow and children.


Smalls Quarries Ltd
published by gricharduk - 6 months 0 day ago.

Small's Quarries Ltd (Companies House No. 386154) was first registered on 11 March 1944. It was formed to takeover the mining interests of the New Hartcliffe Quarry company. Both companies were owned by Arthur Small, of 7 Queen Street, Bristol. New Hartcliffe Quarry owned Hartcliffe Rock Quarry at Barrow Hill, Felton, near Winford, and Arthur merged this quarry into the new company. The company had registered offices at 298 Bishopsworth Road, Bristol, and Arthur also ran a commercial vehicles' business from there (trading as Western Commercial Motors).[See "New Companies" in the The Quarry Managers' Journal, May 1944, Volume 27, Number 11, Page 526] Arthur was a member of Bristol Rotary Club and president of Bristol South Harriers athletics club. Hartcliffe Rock Quarry, produced about a thousand tons of crushed limestone a year, mainly used for road building, but the quarry now stands as a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).

In 1952, Small's Quarries opened Stancombe Quarry on the south-face of Backwell Hill near Flax Bourton. In 1964, the Witney Stone Company, a subsidiary of the Amey Group Ltd, purchased Small's Quarries. In 1968, Hobbs Quarries Ltd, a mining company based at Backwell House, Backwell, merged their quarry interests with Wimpey Asphalt Ltd, then part of the George Wimpey Group, to form Wimpey Hobbs Ltd under Hobbs (Quarries) Holdings Ltd. Before 1977, Hobbs (Quarries) Holdings acquired the Witney Stone Company. Small's Quarries Ltd was formally wound-up on 22 November 1989, along with a number of other defunct mining companies owned by Hobbs (Quarries) Holdings. In 1996, Tarmac Limited acquired Wimpey Hobbs.


April 2024 Newsletter
published by Jenny Towey - 6 months 7 days ago.

Many thanks, Pat, for another information-packed newsletter...


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