published by GarethWonfor on Thu, 06/07/2017 - 12:56
I wonder if anyone can help me?
I have recently been researching four photo albums containing a wonderful snapshot of life in W-S-M (and environs) for two wealthy sisters, Win and Norah between 1922 and 1925.
Using a hunch, lots of google street-map trawling and more than a bit of good luck!, I have managed to track down their house ‘Winora’ to ‘No.1 Atlantic Road South'.
published by Marion Hollingsbee on Mon, 26/06/2017 - 21:34
I wonder if anyone is able to go to the Salthouse pub in Clevedon and see if there is a metal plaque on a wall there which advertises Stephens cars. I had a photo which a friend, who isn't local, took for me, but I have mislaid it. If someone could take a photo and email it to me I'd be grateful. I live a long way away. The cars still take part in the Veteran car race each year, being privately owned. My grandfather, Charles Abraham Palmer, worked for Richard Stephens, and we have an original mounted photo, with him driving one of the cars (steering lever, no steering wheel). I'd be s
published by NikkiRogers4 on Sun, 25/06/2017 - 11:37
I am trying to research my grandmothers occupation and from conversations with my family I understand she worked for R J Drapers who had a factory in Clevedon. I've been trying to research online but even their own website doesn't mention the factory except to say the facilities were taken over by the company in the 1950s.
My Aunt Miss Debra Kim Wightman died before I was born and am finding it difficult to get any information other that her date of birth - 3 Aug 1960 and the date of registration of her death May 1985 (Both events registered in WSM
I have been told she died after falling from (or jumping from!) a bridge in Bristol and her body was found some 3 months later
I have looked at various online newspaper databases but cannot see anything for this area or time period :(
We had a query in the library yesterday from someone who has recently moved into Palmer Street in Weston wanting to know more about John PALMER after whom Palmer Street is said to be named. He was christened in Worle in 1807 s/o William & Mary and can be traced through the censuses living in Weston as a Builder until his death in 1878 when he was buried in Weston Cemetery.
