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Posset Pieces

A twice yearly booklet on local history from the Gordano Region of Somerset edited by Sandy Tebbutt.

Latest issue No 5 Spring 2009 - available now.

Posset Pieces can be bought at Society meetings or from Sandy Tebbutt on 01275 843566. Price £5.50 or £4.50 to members. Also available at the Summit Outdoor Leisure shop in Portishead.

 

Contents of Posset Pieces No 5:          36 pages

 

1. Bailey’s Mill, Portishead Dock

Posset Pieces No 5

2. Why the Derrick & Rudge families came to Portishead

3. Portishead Library

4. Infanticide: The case of Emily white

5. A Tribute to Bob Coates compiled by his family

6. A Portishead haunting compiled

7. AP Burt of Portishead, Bag manufactures

 

8. Portishead Power Station

ISBN 978-1-901084-66-5

 

9. Battery Point - The Second World War - Part 4

 

 

10. The Oil Pipe Line, Redcliffe Bay

 

 

11. The Mystery Painting

 

 

12. Portishead’s listed buildings - Severn House

 

 

13. More on Portishead’s Victorian Sewerage System - Part 4

 


 

Contents of Posset Pieces No 4:          36 pages

 

1. Jennie’s Grave

Posset Pieces No 4

 

2. The Nautical School Chapel - Photo

 

3. Golf in Portishead

 

4. The Diary of Mr W T Clark

 

5. Portishead Open Air Swimming Pool

 

6. The Original Sewerage system of Portishead - Part 3

 

7. Norman G Anstey - Holder of Leopold Medal

 

8. The Parry Family

ISBN 978-1-901084-66-5

 

9. Portishead Railways - The Flower Show 2008

 

 

10. Battery Point - Part 3 - World War One

 

 

11. Memories of Nore School, Friary Road, West Hill

 

 

12. My Work at Portishead Power Station

 

 

13. Tinkling’s Legs

 


 

 Contents of Posset Pieces No 3:          36 pages

 

1. A Nautical School Boy

Posset Pieces No 3

 

2. The case of the missing blue painted pigeons

 

3. Warren’s shop at the bottom of Ferndale Road

 

4. Wartime Memories

 

5. Frank Langfield

 

6. Hotel Como (also known as The Bay Hotel)

 

7. Unsightly Petrol Pumps

 

8. The British School, West Hill and the graveyard

ISBN 978-1-901084-66-5

 

9. Bristol City - Lord of Portishead Manor?

 

 

10. Battery Point - Part 3

 

 

11. Dissenters’ Certificate for the Union Independent Chapel

 

 

12. Portishead Kindergarten and Preparatory School

 

 

13. The original Portishead sewerage system - Part 2

 

 

14. A list of Portishead and North Weston’s listed buildings

 


 

 Contents of Posset Pieces No 2:     36 pages      

 

1. Place names of Portishead

Posset Pieces No 2

 

2. The Savory Family

 

3. Smugglers in the Bay

 

4. Construction of the original Sewerage system in Portishead

 

5. Weston Lodge, The Baker and Watts families and summer holidays

 

6. Redcliffe Bay Roman Site

 

7. Battery Point

 

8. Archaeology in Portishead

ISBN 978-1-901084-66-5

 

9. Education in Portishead

 

 

10. Weston Clevedon & Portishead Railway postcard

 

11. A Bandstand for Portishead?

 


 

 Contents of Posset Pieces No 1:       28 pages    

 

1. The buildings of Portishead’s Congregational Chapels

Posset Pieces No 1

 

2. Fifty years ago

 

3. Mrs Elsie Rowles (nee Baker)

 

4. Portishead Brick and Tile Works

 

5. The changing place names of Portishead

 

6. Reports on excavations at the site of Weston-in-Gordano Manor Houses in 1958 and 1960

 

7. Open space at Beach Road West

 

8. Fiftieth Year celebrations

ISBN 1 901 084 XXX

 

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