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24 Family Walks in and around Bristol
LESLEY TURNEY
Two dozen walks, carefully chosen with families in mind, offer the chance to explore the glorious variety of countryside on Bristol’s doorstep. From a stroll on the Treasure Island trail around Bristol Harbourside and a bracing walk along the ridge of King’s Weston Hill, to the rugged splendour of Ebbor Gorge and the tranquillity of the Sharpness Canal at Frampton on Severn – Lesley Turney introduces us to the delights of family days out in the fresh air.
The walks vary in length and difficulty, but all are fun, and often stimulating to the enquiring young mind. Following public footpaths, the walks lead past ancient churches and fine houses, up to magnificent viewpoints – the top of Goblin Combe is one of the most beautiful spots in the whole of England – across woodland, meadows, along rivers and canals, even through a deserted farm, and usually end within easy distance of a country pub. The directions are easy to follow and include a simple route map.
200 x 138mm 120pp
ISBN 1 904537 47 2 paperback £6.95
Published - available from bookshops or email us for further information: info@redcliffepress.co.uk
Asparagus and Other Friends
60 engravings of flowers, fruit and vegetables
TREVOR HADDRELL 
This book is published in response to the enthusiasm of the many admirers and collectors of Trevor Haddrell's exquisite engravings of flower, fruit and vegetable forms.
Most of the drawings were done in the luxuriant cottage garden on the Clifton Wood hillside which the artist shares with his green-fingered partner who lovingly tends the many species of flowering plants, shrubs and trees featured in the book.
Trevor Haddrell has been influenced by the powerful wood engravings of Eric Ravilious, Clare Leighton and Gertrude Hermes, along with the work of the Japanese wood-block artists Hokusai and Hiroshige.
Several of the engravings have been selected for the annual exhibitions of the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol and for the annual touring exhibitions of the Society of Wood Engravers. One of those featured in the book was selected as the cover illustration for the 2005 wood-engravers' exhibition catalogue.
230 x 155mm 96pp
ISBN 1 904537 37 5 Hardback £12.50
Published October 2005
ATYEO: The Hero Next Door
TOM HOPEGOOD AND JOHN HUDSON
When John Atyeo died in 1993, his former team-mate Jimmy Rogers said: 'They broke the mould after they made him.' It is the kind of tribute paid to the recently deceased often enough, but rarely has it rung more true than in the case of Big John, whose 350 Football League and Cup goals and 597 League appearances for Bristol City will almost certainly never be surpassed.
The statistics go on: he is joint seventh in the all-time list of League top scorers, netted five times in six undefeated games for England and was a swashbuckling striker who was never sent off or cautioned in more than fifteen seasons. Yet facts and figures alone can never tell the full story of John Atyeo. Here was a player and a man who made what today would be extraordinary choices in his lifestyle and career.
Even then, his decision to remain a part-time professional with an unfashionable Second Division club bemused most of his contemporaries, and it certainly cost him his place in the international team. Yet, if he regretted spurning the advances of Chelsea, Liverpool and other big names, he always said no, he would do it all over again.
In his playing days, John Atyeo was a by-word for one-club loyalty and for fair play, but as Tom Hopegood and John Hudson have discovered through intensive research and interviews with family, friends and colleagues, he was much more complex than that. Readers will put this book down feeling they know the man much better than they would ever have dreamed possible.
ISBN 1 904537 41 3 272 pages (inc. 32pp plate section) hardback £17.50
Published November 2005
a Bristol Eye: The City seen from new Perspectives
STEPHEN MORRIS AND TIM MOWL
An invitation to look again at many of Bristol's well-known buildings and to seek out others less well known. Photographer Stephen Morris and architectural historian Tim Mowl take the reader on a journey of discovery around the city to look at interiors, the harbourside, domestic housing and some remarkable commercial buildings.
The diversity of styles is astonishing - from classicism through Victorian eclectism to Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Hi-Tech functionalism.
210mm x 240mm 96pp colour illustrations throughout location maps
ISBN 1 900178 78 8 Softback £11.99
Beastly Bristol
JULIAN LEA-JONES 
Beastly Bristol is genuinely fantastic – a stunning introduction to the menagerie of animals, birds, fish and insects surrounding us as we walk the streets of Bristol. Author Julian Lea-Jones has located literally hundreds of animal forms – on buildings, roof-tops, sculptures, railings, walls – which most of us pass by every day without even noticing. A fascinating A-Z of animals, a gazetteer and two maps to help you find them.
220 x 155 mm 80pp packed with fabulous colour and black and white illustrations
ISBN 1 904537 52 9 paperback £6.95
Published 23 May 2006
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Brislington Ghosts and Mysteries
KEN TAYLOR
Brislington seems to have more than its fair share of haunted houses and this collection, presented in a straightforward and non-judgemental way, features traditional tales - the oldest from over 900 years ago - as well as events in the twenty-first century. More than a score of ghosts can be found in the pages of Ken Taylor's survey of superstitions, UFO sightings and other paranormal phenomena which he has unearthed in Brislington and the neighbourhoods of Arno's Vale, Broomhill and St Anne's.
ISBN 1 904537 38 3 72pp black and white photos and illustrations softback £5.99
Published October 2005
Bristol and Beyond: Fifty-five Relief Engravings
Trevor Haddrell
Bristol and Beyond is the eagerly awaited new collection of Trevor Haddrell's engravings of familiar and no-so-familiar Bristol scenes. These range in size and complexity from an award-winning panorama taking in the view from Zero Degrees across Colston Street to the elegant simplicity of a series of evening scenes of Baltic Wharf, with the Cumberland Basin warehouses silhouetted against the fading sky.Other beautiful images include a pagoda-like University Tower scaffolded for repair, the mesmerising shapes of Christmas Steps climbing to St. Michael's Hill and the wide-sweeping King Street looking every inch a stage set. Beyond Bristol, an elegant Clevedon Pier, Clevedon Court, along with the little-known Nailsea Court, fine buildings in Thornbury and the ornate turrets, gable ends and chimney stacks of that great Victorian pile, Tyntesfield, complete a wonderful journey in and around the city.
245 x 265mm, 112pp
Hardback
ISBN 13: 978-1-904537-61-8
£17.50
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2006
Bristol Before the Camera: 1820-1830
Watercolours and drawings from the Braikenridge Collection
SHEENA STODDARD
100 watercolours and drawings, with essay and commentaries, from the celebrated Braikenridge collection held by Bristol Museums & Art Gallery.
The book concentrates on the work of Thomas L Rowbotham and Hugh O'Neill, along with Edward Cashin, George W Delamotte, Samuel Jackson and James Johnson. Two of Rowbotham's remarkable panoramas of the city, seen from the surrounding hillsides, are also included.
210mm x 240mm 112pp approximately 100 colour illustrations
ISBN 1 900178 68 0 Softback £12.99
Bristol Central Library and Charles Holden
A History and Guide
ANTHONY BEESON
Bristol’s innovatively designed Central Library, opened in 1906, was recently voted the city’s best twentieth-century building. The Library was the first major commission for architect Charles Holden, who gained further recognition after designing a number of stations on London’s Underground network.
The book brings together a unique collection of archive and contemporary photographs as it underlines thearchitectural importance of the Library, now recognised as a masterpiece of the early modern movement, and traces its history and development through to the present day.
The author, Anthony Beeson, having worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art library, moved to Bristol in 1972 to take up the appointment of Fine Art Librarian.
210mm z 270mm 56pp
ISBN 1 904537 53 7 softback £7.95
To purchase this book, please apply to the Central Library, Bristol
Bristol City Greats
IVAN PONTING AND TOM MORGAN
Since the war, the Robins have experienced highs and lows in all four divisions of the Football League, including a heady four-year sojourn among the elite under Alan Dicks in the late 1970s.
Through it all, scores of exciting footballers have treated the Ashton Gate faithful to some fabulous entertainment. In this book - a complete update of a bestseller from 1990 - Ivan Ponting and Tom Morgan, who have both monitored Bristol soccer since their childhoods, profile City's most illustrious post-war heroes.
They are all here, from the 1940s favourites to the leading lights of the 2005/06 seasons - from Roberts and Atyeo to Galley and Garland, Ritchie and Gow, Murray and Lita.
Bristol City Greats is a warm and fascinating tribute to outstanding games and much-loved personalities.
ISBN 1 904537 33 2 160 pages softback £9.99
Published September 2005
Bristol Heritage: A Walking Guide to Bristol Churches
FREDERICK WARNE
These five walking tours are the perfect introduction to Bristol's marvellous heritage of medieval, Georgian, Victorian and modern churches.
220mm x 120mm 64pp many black & white illustrations
ISBN 1 872971 41 5 softback £3.95
A Bristol Panorama
DOREEN STREET
Wide ranging aspects of Bristol's history, events and personalities. The panorama stretches from coal-mining in Kingswood to the Rip Van Winkle pin factory in Staple Hill that stood untouched for 40 years after it closed, from the days when St Werburgh's was a favourite spot for Victorian picnickers to experiments on the Downs to perfect a kite-drawn carriage.
210mm x 150mm 80 pp black & white illustrations
ISBN 1 87971 62 8 softback £4.99
Bristol Potters 1775-1906
R.K. HENRYWOOD
Until now, published material about the important nineteenth pottery trade in Bristol has been very limited. Dick Henrywood's detailed directory fills the gaps and records more than 300 pottery firms operating in Bristol between 1775 and 1906, covering all known partnerships and factories, with dates and product details.
The main body of the work is arranged as an easy-to-use dictionary, supplemented by documentary material including trade and business cards, stationery and advertisements. The information has been researched from contemporary local and national directories, all of which are here listed in detail for historical reference.
235mm x 175mm 96pp 40 b & w illustrations
ISBN 1 872971 76 8 Hardback £13.50
Bristol Railway Stations and Halts
1840 - 2005
MIKE OAKLEY
This survey of Bristol’s branch railway stations and halts by a noted railway historian builds on the author’s long out-of- print earlier book, Bristol Suburban, updating it where fresh material has become available and including many new photographs. It will appeal to railway enthusiasts as well as anyone interested in Bristol’s social, economic and industrial history.
Brunel’s great Temple Meads terminus is well covered, along with a further twenty-five stations and halts inside the city boundaries which have served residents and commercial interests over the years. A particular feature is the inclusion of a number of ‘then and now’ photographs.
270 x 210mm 112pp with black and white illustrations
ISBN 1 904537 54 5 paperback £9.95
Published 19 May 2006
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Bristol Rovers Greats
IVAN PONTING AND RICHARD JONES
Bristol Rovers may never have played in the top flight of the game but, down the decades, few clubs have had more colourful characters. In this fascinating book Ivan Ponting and Richard Jones - both lifelong followers of Bristol soccer - profile the most memorable of the post-war Pirates.
They are all here, from the vintage Eastville favourites of the 1940s and 1950s, through the Watney Cup heroes of the early 1970s, to the idols of Gerry Francis's blue-and-white army, and beyond: Geoff Bradford and Alfie 'the Baron' Biggs, Harold Jarman and Alan Warboys, Gary Penrice and Ian Holloway, Marcus Stewart and Nathan Ellington - the list is mouth-watering.
Bristol Rovers Greats is an affectionate and often revealing tribute to some of the most revered names in West Country sport.
ISBN 1 904537 34 0 160 pages softback £9.99
Published September 2005
Bristol Siren Nights
PAUL SHIPLEY [ED]
Recalls the dark days and nights of the blitzes of 1940-41. This collection of eye-witness accounts shows how Bristolians faced up to the constant threat of death and destruction.
The Rev. Paul Shipley compiled these accounts during the war, and thought the heroism, pathos and humour they revealed would enable 'the citizens of tomorrow' to visualise how his generation came to terms with being in the front line of a world war.
230mm x 150mm 72pp wood engravings by Beryl Thornborough
ISBN 0948265 98 1 softback £3.50
Bristol Under Seige: Surviving the Wartime Blitz
HELEN REID
In graphic accounts and 75 astonishing photographs, many not passed by the war-time censor, this book tells the bomb-by-bomb story of what Bristolians endured during the great blitzes of 1940/41.
235 x 190mm 128pp with 75 archive photographs
ISBN 1 904537 25 1 softback £8.95
Brunel and the Art of Invention
CLAIRE O'MAHONY
Isambard Kingdom Brunel embodies the self-reliance, hard work and inventiveness which was a core achievement of the nineteenth century; Robert Howlett’s famous photograph Brunel with chains has become an iconic image of the spirit of creative adventure. This man, ‘in love with the impossible’, by sheer brilliance of invention and force of will, helped transform modern transport, engineering and architecture.
In this sumptuously illustrated study, Claire O’ Mahony shows how the self-made inventors whom Brunel has come to epitomise were shaped by a society that recognized the creative interaction between the worlds of art, industry and science.
The book has other dimensions. The author looks at the role of women in art and industry, and also suggests that our awareness of the Victorian legacy will be longer-lasting and wider-reaching if we recognise the difficulties many young Britons experience in coping with the heroic view of the nation’s history so well illustrated in this book.
265 x 210mm 64pp
ISBN 1 904537 50 2 paperback £7.95
Brunel´s Bristol
ANGUS BUCHANAN AND MICHAEL WILLIAMS 
The remarkable Isambard Kingdom Brunel made a greater contribution to the landscape of the Bristol area than any other single individual before or since.
Few would argue with Angus Buchanan's judgement: a splendid bridge over the Avon Gorge, a railway network radiating out from Bristol, with Brunel's original Temple Meads station still intact (if put to new uses), the Floating Harbour surviving largely because of the improvements which he introduced, and the s.s. Great Britain now handsomely restored in the dry dock from which she was launched in 1843.
This book - the only one to concentrate on Brunel's associations with the city of Bristol - tells of the great engineer's triumphs, exasperations and disappointments in the city which, as a young man, he adopted as his own and which he continued to regard with affection for the rest of his life.
ISBN 1 904537 35 9 112pp (inc eight pages of colour) softback £9.95
Published October 2005
C20\21: Bristol's Twentieth-Century Buildings
TONY ALDOUS AND JOHN TRELAWNY-ROSS
Looks back on the architecture of the last 100 years, decade by decade.
From the 'tobacco gothic' of the Wills family's splendid benefactions to the university, to the RAC's space-age 'Supercentre', from Connell & Ward's 'shockingly modern' Concrete House to the university's newest Synthetic Chemistry building, each is described by Tony Aldous and superbly photographed in colour by John Trelawny-Ross. A final chapter takes the account into the twenty-first century with the Millennium buildings, Pero's Bridge at Harbourside and the re-landscaping of the Centre and Queen Square.
210mm x 240mm 156 pp colour illustrations throughout location maps
ISBN 1 904537 06 5 Softback £14.99
Children´s Bristol
John Sansom [Ed]
This is the return of a much loved family favourite. Many completely new topics in more than 40 chapters include a guide to mazes, magical, mystical Bristol, fossil hunting, in Roman footsteps, three family walks, and much more. Crammed with bright ideas for family visits, places to see, things to do. Written in the unique Children's Bristol narrative style, and supported by detailed listings. Children's Bristol is designed to inform, educate and above all entertain. A godsend for parents wanting to keep one step ahead of enquiring young minds, it is strong on ideas and suggestions, while at the same time providing essential information in a readily accessible form: all meticulously researched and written by family members and professional writers. On a light-hearted note, this new edition has thrown up what our researchers dubbed IBUs - interesting but useless facts. Watch out for them - 15 are scattered throughout the book. We are donating 75p for every copy sold to Children's Hospice South West.
[visit our Children's Bristol website - www.childrensbristol.co.uk]
220mm x 155mm 288pp colour and black & white illustrations + maps
ISBN 1 904537 22 7 softback £8.50
Christopher Thomas: Soap Maker of Bristol
JOHN SOMERVILLE
History of soap-making in Bristol from the Middle Ages, concentrating on the business of Christopher Thomas & Bros from 1745 to the take-over of the makers of Puritan soap by Lever Bros and final closure of the Broad Plain factory in the 1950s.
240mm x 175mm 120pp many archive photographs
ISBN 0 948265 74 4 hardback £5.95
City Impressions: Bristol Etchers 1910-1935
SHEENA STODDARD
Etching was at the height of its popularity in the early decades of the twentieth century. Illustrated here are more than 60 etchings, mostly drawn from the collection of Bristol Museums & Art Gallery, representing the work of fifteen artists, including noted exponents such as Stanley Anderson and Malcolm Osborne, along with several outstanding printmakers virtually unknown today, such as Alexander Heaney, Willis Paige, Nathaniel Sparks and Dorothy Woollard.
230mm x 225mm 96pp 60 black & white reproductions
ISBN 1 872971 20 2 softback £8.95
Chickens on the Lawn: From the Bristol Blitz to Cornwall and back again
JOHN BUDD
Memorable scenes of a city at war filtered through a child's eyes, to be thrown into sharp relief by the sheer joy of this young evacuee's brief spell of country life in Cornwall. The book ends with an early-teenage lad stepping back from the victory celebrations of 1945 to philosophise about what the post-war future might hold.
235mm x 150mm 168 pp black & white photographs
ISBN 1 900178 34 6 softback £8.50
Dear Mother: Great War Letters from a Bristol Soldier
BARRY WILLIAMSON [ED]
Like countless of his contemporaries, from Bristol Grammar schoolboy, Stanley Booker cheerfully volunteered to fight for his country in the Great War. Joining 'Bristol's Own' in September 1914, after training at Ashton Gate he was commissioned in the Worcestershire Regiment in the following year and was posted to Maldon in Essex. His letters home tell of the routine of bayonet practice, trench digging and the tedium of waiting to see action at the Front, alleviated by the excitement of dodging Zeppelin raids. After a spell on Salisbury Plain, Stanley saw front-line action in 1916 and his letters from this period culminate in a series of vivid accounts of life and death just yards from the enemy lines near Richebourg.
Black and white photographs
ISBN 1 904537 07 3, softback £7.99
Design Control in Bristol 1940-1990
JOHN V PUNTER
This is a book about the post-war wrecking of one of Britain's foremost city centres, and the subsequent attempts by a more enlightened regime to reconstruct a sense of place and visual quality. The focus of the study is the 250 large office buildings which have transformed the face of post-war Bristol. It examines the economic, political, social and design contexts that produced a series of changing fashions - from 'stripped classical' to Modernist slab and tower blocks, from neo-Georgian to post-modern eclecticism.
240mm x 175mm 450pp with illustrations, plans and appendices
ISBN 0 945825 59 0 hardback published at £35 -- now £20
Dr William Budd
Bristol's most famous physician
MICHAEL DUNNILL
Most people walk past the plaque on 89 Park Street, Bristol without giving a second thought to the man it commemorates. And yet Dr William Budd, who was a true pioneer and was to become Bristol’s most distinguished physician, made an immense contribution to medicine and to the life of the city. Born in Devon, he moved to Bristol in 1841, working at St Peter’s Hospital and the Infirmary where he cared for patients during typhoid and cholera epidemics, for which there was no cure. He was able to identify how these deadly diseases spread, seeing at first hand the insanitary hovels of Lewins Mead and elsewhere in the city, and realising the need for preventive measures.
An early director of the Bristol Waterworks Company, William Budd was the moving force behind ensuring a clean water supply, one of the first essentials in combating water-born disease. Several major epidemics of infection diseases swept through nineteenth-century Britain, killing indiscriminately and showing no respect for age or social class. For years Budd fought to change misguided orthodoxies in the medical professional which denied the contagious nature of these killer diseases. When the 1866 cholera epidemic reached Bristol, much reduced death figures showed that he had largely won the grim fight to improve the nation’s health.
230 x 155mm 176pp
ISBN 1 904537 48 0 Hardback £12.95
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Football Crazy
VARIOUS
Arch rivals they might be, but City and Rovers fans come together at last in a book which celebrates the agony and ecstasy, the power and the glory - and the sheer craziness of being a football fan.
230mm x 210mm 96pp black & white photographs
ISBN 1 872971 54 7 softback £5.99
From Bristol to the Sea: Artists, the Avon Gorge and Bristol Harbour
FRANCIS GREENACRE
This superbly illustrated book is a celebration of how artists have responded to the finest approach to an inland harbour in the world. t illustrates both Bristol's rich maritime heritage and the unsurpassed collection of paintings, watercolours and drawings in Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.
The journey from the heart of the old city to the Bristol Channel is chronological as well as topographical, spanning three hundred years from 1671 to 1995. At the book's core is the famous Bristol School of Artists of the 1820s, particularly Francis Danby and Samuel Jackson.
Bristol's outstanding marine painters, Nicholas Pocock and Joseph Walter, are well represented and the book concludes with Bristol's world-famous contemporary artist, Richard Long. Visiting artists are included, from an anonymous itinerant artist of the early eighteenth century, to J M W Turner, John Sell Cotman and the twentieth-century watercolours of John and Paul Nash.
210mm x 240mm 160 pages with over 130 colour and mono illustrations
ISBN 1 904537 39 1 Redcliffe Press Hardback £19.95
Published November 2005
Ghosts at Cockcrow: The Story of Failand
RITA ARCHER
Although only a few miles from the centre of Bristol, Failand retains its sense of seclusion, even isolation. Chapters include the story of the Berkeley family in Failand, and more recently the Frys. The author also deals with Failand school, chapel and church and the thriving market-gardening industry which used to supply many Clifton households.
235mm x 155mm 88pp black & white photographs
0 948265 12 4 softback £3.95
The Henleaze Book (2nd edition)
Veronica Bowerman 
There’s more to Henleaze than you thought
The houses, the shops, the businesses.
The land they were built on, the men who built them.
The people who lived and worked there.
This long-awaited update of Veronica Bowerman’s original book contains much fresh information and many new illustrations and plans. It gives the reader a fascinating insight into the history of Henleaze.
What they said about the first edition
“The book is full of anecdotes and personal memories rather than dry history – created, as it says itself ‘by residents and lovers of Henleaze’.” Bristol Evening Post
“I must congratulate you on the excellent and very interesting Henleaze Book which you have produced. It needed to be done.” Robert Powles
50 photographs + maps and plans.
220 x 155mm, 160pp
ISBN: 0-9553567-0-9 PUBLICATION: 4 September 2006
£6.95 (softback)
Veronica Bowerman
Email:henleazebook@yahoo.co.uk
In Search of Bristol
Stephen Morris
In this engaging and unique work, photographer Stephen Morris explores the iconic and obscure of his adopted home. In Search of Bristol not only celebrates the city's defining vistas - St Mary Redcliffe, Harbourside, the great Clifton terraces - it also roots around some lesser known, but much loved corners. Bristolians who thought they knew their city will be surprised, and delighted. Visitors will want to come again. This is a Bristol to discover and enjoy, with its rich history, its eccentricities and its surprises.
more than 180 photographs in full colour, with commentary
215 x 240mm, 208pp
Softback: ISBN 1 904537 60 X - £10
Hardback: ISBN 1 904537 59 6 - £14.95
Jews in Bristol
JUDITH SAMUELS
Major study of the Jewish community from the Middle Ages - at Jacob's Well, Bristol can claim the oldest mikveh (ritual bath) in Europe - to the present day.
The author discusses the foundation of competing synagogues in the city and plots the story of individual Jewish families, including notable names such as the Jessels, the Alexanders and the Sacoffs. She touches on the Jewish contribution to the arts and crafts, including glass-makers Lazarus and Isaac Jacobs.
Other topics include press attitudes to the Jews, Jewish education at Clifton College and, through interview, the experiences of the Holocaust survivors who settled in Bristol.
230mm x 153mm 264pp 40 black & white illustrations
ISBN 1 900178 16 8 Hardback £17.95
Life in Victorian Bristol
HELEN REID
The heart of modern Bristol isn't medieval or even Georgian, but Victorian.
The framework of today's city was laid down in the nineteenth century, with the system of local government, road and rail layouts, and the siting of the business quarter. The Victorians set up all the institutions we take for granted - the police force, the fire brigade, the post office, telephones, sewerage, lighting, refuse collection, gas and electricity, water. They built the schools, the libraries, swimming baths, their leading citizens put up the money for the city's art gallery and other institutions. Remove the Victorian contribution, and Bristol would be a backwater.
Queen Victoria herself visited the city only twice: once in 1830 as a young princess aged 11, when she visited with her mother the Duchess of Kent, and stayed in a first-floor suite at the Clifton Hotel in The Mall, and again right at the end of her reign, in 1899, when she was 80. Between those two dates, Bristol changed radically, stamped by the new Victorian ethos.
What was it like to live in this age of progress and industry, of self-improvement and selective charity? Using extracts from books, letters, journals and newspapers, Life in Victorian Bristol gives the flavour of those years and describes the social and economic systems which made the city function.
With the help of faded photographs - the camera made its appearance two years into Victoria's reign - we know what Victorian Bristol and its inhabitants looked like, we still live in the houses they built, we shop at the firms they founded, drink in the pubs they drank in, drive on the roads they built. As Helen Reid graphically shows, perhaps they weren't so different from us, after all.
250mm x 210mm 176 pages, profusely illustrated with black & white photographs, prints and archive advertisements
ISBN 1 904537 40 5 Hardback £17.50
Published December 2005
Looking Back: A Bristol Lad in the 30s and 40s
BRIAN MILTON
Brian Milton, a Bedminster boy born in 1927, recalls life as a young lad in Bristol in the 1930s and during the war years that saw the destruction of much of the old city. It is a graphic story of how people lived, worked and played in a world now gone for ever. It was a world of corner shops, the clang of trams swaying through the city streets, of daily milk floats, baker's carts and brewery drays, of kids playing safely in the street, when Friday night meant soaking in a tin-bath in front of the coal fire.
230mm x 155mm 248pp black & white photographs
ISBN 1 900178 33 8 hardback £9.99
Loxton's Bristol: The city's Edwardian years in black & white
SAMUEL LOXTON
Loxton was Bristol's best known illustrator of his day, illustrating books and publishing his Bristol drawings in the Bristol Evening News and Bristol Observer.
This selection evokes nostalgia for buildings which have disappeared and for a leisurely age before Bristol's streets succumbed to the noise and pollution of the motor car.
215mm x 180mm 80pp more than 80 line illustrations
ISBN 1 872971 86 5 softback £4.95
On the Waterfront: The Hotwells Story
HELEN REID AND SUE STOPS
The Bristol suburb of Hotwells has always owed its existence to the proximity of water. Its eighteenth-century prosperity centred on the Hot Well spa which briefly rivalled Bath as a fashionable resort for London society. But it also provided more serious employment in shipbuilding and cargo handling well into the second half of the twentieth century.
The authors recall the varied experiences of notables like the artist Rolinda Sharples and Humphry Davy experimenting with laughing gas to humbler residents whose personal testimonies of the 'hard but good' old days bring Hotwells' more recent history vividly to life.
250mm x 210mm 128pp more than 150 black & white illustrations
ISBN 1 900178 88 5 softback £9.99
Open Doors: Bristol's Hidden Interiors
STEPHEN MORRIS AND TIM MOWL
Photographs and commentaries on nearly 50 outstanding 'Bristol Doors Open Day' interiors: banks, a brewery, churches, a former police station, the country's finest art academy outside London, an artists' hideaway, a 'blue glass' workshop among them.
Also revealed are the breathtaking rococo decoration of the Royal Fort - a national treasure - and, by way of contrast, the chaste simplicity of hymn-writer Charles Wesley's red-brick house, a reminder of Bristol's lingering Low Church, non-conformist religious past.
210mm x 240mm 96pp colour illustrations throughout
ISBN 1 900178 59 1 softback £11.99
Panoramic Bristol: 50 engravings and linocuts
TREVOR HADDRELL
Reproductions of 50 superb contemporary engravings of Bristol scenes, including a series of large and dramatic panoramas. The artist contributes an essay on engraving techniques as well as commentaries on each of the images.
250mm x 175mm 112pp illustrated throughout
ISBN 1 900178 64 8 hardback £17.50
The Paty Family: Makers of Eighteenth-Century Bristol
GORDON PRIEST
The first full account of the ramifications of the Paty family of designers and craftsmen, with accounts of all their known work in Bristol, Gloucestershire and Somerset. The designs in the Paty Copybook are reproduced and described. Very fully illustrated in black & white, with some colour.
240mm x 210mm 160pp many illustrations
ISBN 1 900178 54 0 softback with flaps £18.50
PERO: The Life of a Slave in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
CHRISTINE EICKELMANN AND DAVID SMALL
The story of Pero's life as a servant in Nevis and in Bristol and, at a time when the black population in England totalled perhaps 15,000, the authors research throws light on how the eighteenth-century master and black servant relationships worked in practice.
220mm x 210mm 64pp colour and black and white illustrations
ISBN 1 904537 03 0 softback £6.99
Public View: A Profile of the Royal West of England Academy
JOHN SANSOM [ED.]
The story of how a widow's legacy led to the setting up, in 1844, of what became the RWA and of its subsequent turbulent history.
The historical narrative is illuminated by essays by Sheena Stoddard on the Sharples family of artists and Tim Mowl on the 'battle of the styles' over whether, in the 1850s, the Academy should be built in Bristol's prevailing neo-classical or in a more adventurous Italianate style.
The remarkable patronage of the Wills tobacco family is covered by Helen Reid in some detail, and John Hudson examines the role played by Lord Methuen in guiding the Academy's post-Second World War revival and in establishing for the Academy a nationally important collection of British art in the second half of the twentieth century.
The book concludes with the Academy's re-opening after major building works, poised at last to fulfil its potential as a major out-of-London centre of artistic excellence.
270mm x 210mm 192pp many colour and black & white reproductions
ISBN 1 900178 04 4 softback with flaps £14.95
Queen Square
ANDREW KELLY
The story of Bristol's most famous square, from its early incarnation as a venue for bear-baiting through the 1831 riots to its recent restoration to its original eighteenth-century layout.
210mm x 240mm 64pp colour and black & white illustrations
ISBN 1 900178 84 2 softback £5.95 January 2003
Sculpture in Bristol
DOUGLAS MERRITT
Survey of public sculpture in Bristol, ranging from Rysbrack's William III, the country's finest equestrian statue, to contemporary work in and around Millennium Square. More than 70 works are described and illustrated under the headings: commemorative, decorative, fountains and modern. Biographies of all sculptors are included. Each profiled sculpture is illustrated in colour and identified on a location map.
210mm x 240mm 144pp more than 150 illustrations
ISBN 1 900178 83 4 softback £14.99
The Sixties in Bristol
VARIOUS
Swinging Bristol as recalled by eight writers who remember the sixties with affection.
The Berni brothers were helping to transform the nation's eating out habits, sherry was still shipped into the heart of the city, but the docks were dying, office blocks were starting to obliterate the historic skyline and the city council were dithering over what to do about Wine Street.
225mm x 155mm 64pp black & white illustrations
ISBN 094865 34 5 softback £3.95
From Gothic to Romantic:
Thomas Chatterton's Bristol
ED. ALISTAIR HEYS
Even 235 years after his supposed death by suicide, Bristol's boy-poet Thomas Chatterton remains a fascinating and controversial figure.
This challenging collection of eight essays questions long-held assumptions about Chatterton's life and offers new insights into the young poet's influence on English art and literature.
Snapshots from the book:
Jonathan Barry argues that it was Chatterton's impetuosity and limited social circle - and not the supposed philistinism of eighteenth-century Bristol that prompted his premature flight to London.
Timothy Mowl argues that, rather than a proto-Romantic, Chatterton was more a Rococo poet living among the eclectic furore of a brash Rococo city.
Michael Liversidge assesses how the Chatterton myth encouraged and influenced artistic depictions of St Mary Redcliffe church by artists such as Girtin, Turner and Varley.
Nick Groom shows that, successful and relatively secure financially in London, Chatterton had no reason to commit suicide and that the young poet's death could be attributed to an accidental drugs overdose.
ISBN 1 904537 20 0 144pp with black & white illustrations Hardback £14.95
Published October 2005
To Build the Second City: Architects and craftsmen of Georgian Bristol
TIMOTHY MOWL
Architecturally, Bristol is often compared unfavourably to Bath. In this scholarly but entertaining and provocative study, Tim Mowl shows that Bristol has not only more Georgian buildings than its neighbour, but a finer and wider range of styles and types. Bristol, and Clifton in particular, the author argues, are the unexplored, undervalued treasure houses of eighteenth-century design. Architects and craftsmen considered include the remarkable Paty family, Charles Dyer, Richard Shackleton Pope, John Strahan and Charles Underwood.
235mm x 170mm 176pp 120 black & white illustrations
ISBN 1 872971 26 1 hardback £19.95
Tramlines to the Stars: George White of Bristol
GEORGE WHITE
Despite his monumental achievements, Sir George White is still an unsung hero in the city of his birth. Told by his great-grandson, the incredible story of the man who gave Bristol its first electric tramway service, established Britain's first major aircraft factory at the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, masterminded the huge expansion of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, founded Bristol's Red Cross and built the Bristol Stock Exchange.
230mm x 150mm 80pp black & white photographs
ISBN 1 872971 73 3 softback £4.99
A View to the Future
JT Group: a radical approach to building and development
Roland Adburgham
The JT Group is an unusual and innovative company. Founded in Bristol in 1961, it began as a construction company which, from its early days, introduced ‘design and build’ and has now created an imaginative ‘not-for-profit’ development company, Under the Sky. It has had remarkable long-term relations with arts-related organisations including Dartington Hall in Devon and Arnolfini in Bristol. John Pontin, chairman and co-founder of JT, has served as chairman of Dartington Hall, while JT’s restoration of the nineteenth-century former tea warehouse which became Arnolfini’s home was the catalyst which led to the revival of the city’s harbourside.
In A View to the Future Roland Adburgham traces the intriguing story of transformation – of a young man into a successful entrepreneur, of a young company into a major player in building design and construction, and of the application of a creative mind to the problems of urban regeneration and sustainable development.
In his support for environmental initiatives, this work has taken on national and international significance. Seeing the big picture of a world in dire need of transformation, John Pontin has moved on from being an entrepreneur to making his own unique contribution to creating effective change.
This book is essential reading for all those who want to learn about practical ways of making a better world.
ISBN 1 904537 42 1 160 pp text and black & white illustrations + 16pp colour plates
Hardback £14.95.
Written Between the Lines
A Memoir of Redcliffe Press
JOHN SANSOM
206 x 145mm 264pp
ISBN 1 904537 55 3 hardback £12.50
Published 18 May 2006
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