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Posset Pieces
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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.
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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.
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Contents of Posset Pieces No 5: 36 pages
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1. Bailey’s Mill, Portishead Dock
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2. Why the Derrick & Rudge families came to Portishead
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3. Portishead Library
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4. Infanticide: The case of Emily white
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5. A Tribute to Bob Coates compiled by his family
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6. A Portishead haunting compiled
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7. AP Burt of Portishead, Bag manufactures
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8. Portishead Power Station
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ISBN 978-1-901084-66-5
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9. Battery Point - The Second World War - Part 4
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10. The Oil Pipe Line, Redcliffe Bay
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11. The Mystery Painting
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12. Portishead’s listed buildings - Severn House
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13. More on Portishead’s Victorian Sewerage System - Part 4
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Contents of Posset Pieces No 4: 36 pages
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1. Jennie’s Grave
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2. The Nautical School Chapel - Photo
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3. Golf in Portishead
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4. The Diary of Mr W T Clark
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5. Portishead Open Air Swimming Pool
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6. The Original Sewerage system of Portishead - Part 3
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7. Norman G Anstey - Holder of Leopold Medal
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8. The Parry Family
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9. Portishead Railways - The Flower Show 2008
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10. Battery Point - Part 3 - World War One
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11. Memories of Nore School, Friary Road, West Hill
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12. My Work at Portishead Power Station
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13. Tinkling’s Legs
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Contents of Posset Pieces No 3: 36 pages
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1. A Nautical School Boy
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2. The case of the missing blue painted pigeons
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3. Warren’s shop at the bottom of Ferndale Road
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4. Wartime Memories
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5. Frank Langfield
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6. Hotel Como (also known as The Bay Hotel)
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7. Unsightly Petrol Pumps
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8. The British School, West Hill and the graveyard
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ISBN 978-1-901084-66-5
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9. Bristol City - Lord of Portishead Manor?
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10. Battery Point - Part 3
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11. Dissenters’ Certificate for the Union Independent Chapel
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12. Portishead Kindergarten and Preparatory School
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13. The original Portishead sewerage system - Part 2
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14. A list of Portishead and North Weston’s listed buildings
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Contents of Posset Pieces No 2: 36 pages
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1. Place names of Portishead
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2. The Savory Family
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3. Smugglers in the Bay
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4. Construction of the original Sewerage system in Portishead
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5. Weston Lodge, The Baker and Watts families and summer holidays
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6. Redcliffe Bay Roman Site
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7. Battery Point
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8. Archaeology in Portishead
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9. Education in Portishead
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10. Weston Clevedon & Portishead Railway postcard
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11. A Bandstand for Portishead?
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Contents of Posset Pieces No 1: 28 pages
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1. The buildings of Portishead’s Congregational Chapels
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2. Fifty years ago
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3. Mrs Elsie Rowles (nee Baker)
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4. Portishead Brick and Tile Works
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5. The changing place names of Portishead
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6. Reports on excavations at the site of Weston-in-Gordano Manor Houses in 1958 and 1960
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7. Open space at Beach Road West
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8. Fiftieth Year celebrations
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ISBN 1 901 084 XXX
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