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Bristol - A history and guide to my home city

Place names - how some of the places in and around got their names
Legends, Pre-History and the Romans
Birth of the City
1100 - 1450 - Norman Times, Knights Templar, King John, New Frome and Bristol Bridge, Three Edwards, Trade Guilds and the Red Books, The Plague and after, The New Charters - we become a County, the Cathedral, St. Mary Redcliffe
Voyages
1450 - 1650 - The War of the Roses, Social Life, Queen Elizabeth I's visit, the Great House, Red Lodge, America and other Colonies, The Civil War - Causes
1650 - 1700 - The Civil War, Charles II, Growing City, Diarists, Religious quarrels, Monmouth's Rebellion, The Bloody Assize, The Duke and Duchess, The Slave Trade, Other Trades and Industries
1700 Onwards - Social Life, Prisons, Relief for the Poor, Education, News, George Whitefield, the Wesleys and Methodism, Prisoners of War and Manor Park Hospital, The Industrial Revolution, cast iron, the roads, lead shot, postal services. Dr Tucker, Edmund Burke, Joseph Cottle and the poets, Humphry Davy
City and Parish Boundaries
Bristol's Seals, Arms and Logos (Page 1)
Bristol's Seals, Arms and Logos (Page 2)
Bristol's Seals, Arms and Logos (Page 3)
Riots (Page 1) - Food Riot - 1709, Political Riot - 1714, Weavers Riots - 1728 / 1729, Turnpike Riots - 1727 - 1749, Food Riot - 1753, Bristol Bridge Riot - 1793, Political Reform Riot - 1831
Riots (Page 2) - G.I. Riot - 1944, Political Riot - 1980
The Blitz - The WWII bomb raids on Bristol
Paul Plumley's wartime evacuation
Virtute et Industrial
Historical Perspective
Avon Gorge (Page 1) - Leigh Woods, Stokeleigh Camp, Nightingale Valley, Suspension Bridge, Suicides
Avon Gorge (Page 2) - Suspension Bridge, Flying
Avon Gorge (Page 3) - Rock Slide, Observatory, Camera Obscura, Giant's Cave
Bedminster (Page 1) - The New Cut, the Old Goal
Bedminster (Page 2) - The Old Prison, Pubs, Bristol Blue Glass
Bedminster (Page 3)
Bedminster (Page 4)
Bedminster (Page 5)
Bedminster (Page 6)
Bedminster (Page 7)
Brislington
Broadmead - John Wesley's Chapel, Merchant Tailors Almshouse and Quakers Friars
Castle Green (Page 1) - including Victoria Street
Castle Green (Page 2)
The Old City (Page 1)
The Old City (Page 2)
The Old City (Page 3)
The Old City (Page 4)
College Green (Page 1)
College Green (Page 2)
Christmas Steps (Page 1)
Christmas Steps (Page 2)
Clifton (Page 1)
Clifton (Page 2) - St. Andrew's Church
City Docks
Hotwells
King Street (Page 1)
King Street (Page 2)
Old Market
St. George (Page 1)
St. George (Page 2)
St. George (Page 3)
St. George (Page 4) - Old Georgians
Temple (Page 1)
Temple (Page 2)
Temple (Page 3)
Troopers Hill
Union Street - Fry's chocolate & medieval excavations
@ Bristol
Arno's Vale Cemetery (Page 1)
Arno's Vale Cemetery (Page 2)
Blaise Castle (Page 1)
Blaise Castle (Page 2) - including Sea Mills and Blaise Hamlet
Bristol Bridge
The Castle (Page 1) - The Norman Conquest, Robert Fitzhamon and Robert of Caen, Matilda, Maud and Stephen
The Castle (Page 2) - King Richard I and King John, Taxes, The Mint, Wales
The Castle (Page 3) - Peter de la Mare, Edward II, The Despensers, Death of Edward II, William Scrope, War of the Roses, Wyrcester's Account of the Castle, More Taxes
The Castle (Page 4) - Religious Dissent, Civil War, The End of the Castle, Remains
The Castle (Page 5) - Remains
The Castle (Page 6) - Remains, Sources
1935 Hamham Woods Murder of Mrs. Gladys Nott
Oldest House
St. Mary Redcliffe (Page 1)
St. Mary Redcliffe (Page 2)
St. Mary Redcliffe (Page 3)
1893 Exhibition - The 1893 Industrial and Fine Arts Exhibition
Anchorites and Hermits
Breweries (Page 1)
Breweries (Page 2)
Lead Working
Mackies Engineering, Kingswood
Early Photography
Polar Adventures
E. S. & A. Robinson
I. K. Brunel (Page 1) - Bristol Suspension Bridge, Temple Meads, Great Western Railways
I. K. Brunel (Page 2) - SS Great Western, SS Great Britain
Ma Pugsley
Wilmot Family
Yeamans - An important 17th century family
Bristol Postcards (1 of 50)
Books and Publications - A Bibliography
Other Sites
Help Wanted (Page 1) - can you help with some of these questions?
Help Wanted (Page 2)
Help Wanted (Page 3)

Bristol, USA - There are 28 places named Bristol in the USA, here's something about them.

Bristol, Canada - There are 3 places named Bristol in Canada, here's something about them.

Computer Stuff - General stuff to do with computers that I found interesting.

File archives in Windows XP and later
Batch Files

Creating monthly folders
File Type Count - Counting file types by extension in folders
Parsing the date and time
Escape Character - using <, >, |, &, % and ^
Testing for empty strings, spaces and the length of a string - user input, DEFINE
SET: Odd behavior in loops, not updating - SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
SET: Scope and life of variables - SETLOCAL, ENDLOCAL
Pausing and delaying batch files - pause, ping, choice, sleep, timeout, waitfor
Finding the drive letters from volume labels - vol, find, mountvol, vol, WMIC

Comments in programming and script files
Fedora Linux: Some notes

Free Stuff

Dads Navy Days

A brief historical background
Documents - Page 1
Documents - Page 2
Documents - Page 3
Maps - Page 1 - areas covered by the various cruises
Maps - Page 2
HMS Gambia - the ship (1950)
HMS Gambia - the ship (1951)
HMS Gambia - the ship (1952)
HMS Gambia - Collision (Page 1) - The collision with HMS Phoebe
HMS Gambia - Collision (Page 2)
HMS Gambia - the crew
HMS Gambia - the places (1950)
HMS Gambia - the places (1951)
HMS Gambia - visitors
HMS Warrior - The Ship
HMS Warrior - the crew and other people
HMS Warrior - The diary of crewman Leslie Smith
HMS Warrior - Information provided by Taff Webb
HMS Warrior - the places (Page 1)
HMS Warrior - the places (Page 2)
HMS Warrior - the planes (Page 1)
HMS Warrior - the planes (Page 2)
HMS Warrior - the planes (Page 3)
Other Royal Navy ships (Page 1) - HMCS Crusader, HMS Armada, HMS Bermuda, HMS Birmingham, HMS Breconshire, HMS Chieftain, HMS Exeter, HMS Glory, HMS Newfoundland, HMS Tiger, HMS Warrior, SS Gothic, and USS Des Moines
Other Royal Navy ships (Page 2) - HMS Jamaica, HMS Kenya, HMS Kite, HMS Magpie, HMS Peacock, HMS Phoebe, HMS Sheffield, and PNS Tariq
Other Royal Navy ships (Page 3) - HMS Vanguard, HMS Wrangler
Other Royal Navy ships (Page 4) - South African Navy
Before & After
ARA Independencia - courtesy of Carlos Rufino
ARA Independencia - courtesy of Victor Driussi
ARA Independencia - more photographs, courtesy of Victor Driussi
ARA Independencia - courtesy of Carlos Rufino. These images are from the film "La muchachada de a bordo"
ARA Independencia - courtesy of Carlos Rufino. Colour images from the film "La muchachada de a bordo"
ARA Independencia - courtesy of Carlos Rufino. Colour images from the film "La muchachada de a bordo"
Spithead Review 1953 - courtesy of Ray Holden
Spithead Review 1953 - courtesy of David Killelay
HMS Chevron - One of Ray Holden's ships
HMS Chevron's Bell - How the bell ended up in a school in New Zealand
HMS Cook - One of Denys Powell's ships
HMS Diamond / HMS Swiftsure Collision, 1953
HMS Liverpool - One of Ray Holden's ships
HMS Phoebe
HMS Wrangler
Alick Lavers' recollections of his time in the Royal Navy
Name Types
Peanut Club - Peanut Club, plastic surgery, Guinea Pig Club
Other Sites

Four Wheelin' - Our off-road adventures

Four Wheelin' Home

The Floods of March 1913

Google Charts API

House Renovations - "The Year of the House"

Jukebox - Repair and refurbishment of a 1971 Ami/Rowe MM5 Presidential jukebox

Terre Haute House Home Introduction

Bristol Introduction

Miscellany

Optical Illusions - Index

Artist Index
A M C Escher collection
A Rene Magritte collection
A Sandro del Prete collection
This or that
Almost real
Strange Pictures (Page 1) - Strange pictures and peculiar landscapes
Strange Pictures (Page 2) - Strange pictures and peculiar landscapes
Can you believe your eyes? (Page 1)
Can you believe your eyes? (Page 2)
Can you believe your eyes? (Page 3)
Can you believe your eyes? (Page 4)
Faces (Page 1) - Faces in clouds, landscapes, Mars, the Moon and more
Faces (Rocks 1) - Faces in rock formations
Faces (Rocks 2) - Faces in rock formations
Faces (WTC) - Faces in the destruction of the WTC
Faces (Virgin Mary) - Images of the Virgin Mary
My Ideas
Vision (Page 1) - Vision, perception and the brain, monocular clues
Vision (Page 2) - Monocular clues
Vision (Page 3) - Binocular clues, SIRDS, SIRTS, cultural differences
Other Sites

Postcards Home

QBasic

Errors - Common programming and 'user' errors
40lb Weight - a mathematical problem solved
Bits - Various bits and pieces, MOD
Chance - random numbers
Colours
Dates - date and calandar functions
Delays - pausing or stopping a program
Directories - The QBasic dir function is not the same as the command line dir command
File Dialog - a file / directory dialog box
Files - SDF and CSV data files
Input - User input validation, keyboard return codes
Matching - text matching and soundex
Menus - Text menu, simple menu, multi-column menu, horizontally scrolling menu
Mouse - of mice and interupts
Numbers - PI, nth roots, number series, Catalan, Factorials, Fibonacci, Harmonic, Mersenne Prime, Pascal, Perfect, Prime, Square, Triangular and Vampire series, number base conversion
SeqNo - Sequence numbers
SIRDS - Single Image Random Dot Stereograms
Sorts - sortation techniques, Bubble and Quick sorts
Text - text manipulation routines, scrolling text
Timer - time functions, setting and resetting the system clock
Downloads - QBasic files from the site available to you

Terre Haute - A history and guide to my new home of Terre Haute, Indiana

Prehistory
Indians
Explorers
Sin City (1)
Sin City (2)
The Trial of Donn M. Roberts (Page 1)
Postcards (Page 1 of 273)
Union Hospital
Ghosts
2002 Events (Cars) - Custom Car show - 19th May
2002 Events (Planes) - Air Show - 14th July
2002 Events (Hovercraft) - World Hovercraft Championships - 22nd September
Snow Rollers (Page 1) - A once in a lifetime phenomenon - general views
Snow Rollers (Page 2) - The Trails
Snow Rollers (Page 3)
Snow Rollers (Page 4)
Snow Rollers (Page 5)
Differences (Page 1) - Some thoughts on Britain and America
Differences (Page 2)
Differences (Page 3)
Differences (Page 4) - Marshall, Illinois
Other Stuff
Fowler - Fowler family history from 1897
Other Sites

Wabash River Postcards (1 of 34)

War Stories - Index

War Pics 1 - Trench, Hide, Toilet, My 432, Ferret, Canoe
War Pics 2 - Sleep, Climbing, Rescue, Air Landing, Heavy drop, No Fun
Recruits 1 - Drill, Right Wheel, Dustbins, Chairs
Recruits 2 - Brasso, Lake, Jail, Why?, Not funny at all
Dumps - Toilet humour
Exercise 1 - Divisional attack
Exercise 2 - An old Ferret
Exercise 3 - Brrrr
Exercise 4 - Bath, Sleep, Umbrella, Love, Stallingrad, Security, Mortar, Water, Idle
Vehicles - Beach Landing, Staff car 1, Staff car 2, Fire, Rescue, Bike
NBC - Nuclear, Biological and Chemical
Danger UXB - Mortars, Shell, Fire, Starlight, Grenade, Danger Close, End of Course
Dangerous - Chickens, Meeting People, FIBUA, Cordite
By Air and by Sea - Helicopters, Assault, Heavy Drop, Display, At Sea, Teargas & Beer, Long Drop, Canada v US Navy, Other Sites