Posset Pieces

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

Latest issue No 3 Spring 2008 - 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.

 Contents of Posset Pieces No 3:          36 pages

1. A Nautical School Boy

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       A few still available

1. Place names of Portishead

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     A few still available

1. The buildings of Portishead’s Congregational Chapels

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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