3. News

February 2005


3.1 Ordering Bristol As It Was Books

Our books may be found in the following local bookshops. Please check they have all four current titles (vols. 38 – 41) in stock before visiting. If they don’t have the current title in stock, ordering through us will be quickest:

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Shop, Queens Road 0117 922 3571
Bishopston Books, Gloucester Road, Bristol 0117 944 5303
Nailsea Bookshop, North Somerset 01275 810953

We no longer supply copies to national wholesalers owing to added transport costs, so if you are ordering from a bookshop outside Bristol, please ensure that your bookshop orders direct from us, rather than from their usual national wholesaler (such enquiries may register as ‘title not available’, when in fact it is!). Single orders from bookshops outside the Bristol area may be answered on a retail basis only to the bookshop, so to avoid possible added costs we recommend that you purchase direct from ourselves.



3.2 Archive News: The Blitz and Wartime letters


Reece's Blitz diaries have been transcribed and are being set for printing.

Work is proceeding with transfer of Reece Winstone’s correspondence to disk. Some war-time letters relating to his travels in the Low Countries have already been accepted by the Imperial War Museum.


3.3 Brunel 200 – A quiz for IKB’s bi-centenary this year


No correct answers were received to the quiz to name five of the 13 workman working on the bridge on 27th August 1837, the day of the ceremony the first stone was laid of the Somerset Tower of Brunel's Suspension Bridge. Family historians may like to know this included the following names: Tim Murphy, forman; Bill Stubbs, top sawer; Joseph Thick; Ab Browne; Ted George


3.4 Receiving Data files and News of Publications


If you would like to receive one or more of the following files and occasional details of forthcoming publications when they are announced by email please contact me specifying your required download(s) and including your full name, and address (incl postcode). We will forward-on links to the specified downloads to legitimate enquiries only.
Your details to be held on our database, but these details will not be passed on to other organisations.

Datafile no. 1 - Abstract of the Holdings of the Reece Winstone Archive - 4KB
Datafile no. 2 - Published photos index general categories Section A – 80.6KB
Datafile no. 3 - Published photos index Section C, a zip file – 886KB
Datafile no. 4 - List of photographers of published photographs - Section I.xls (6,239 line list), to be read in conjunction with:
Datafile no. 5 - List of photographers names etc. relating to the above - Section J.xls (173 line list).

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