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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 (Page 1) - Clifton Rocks Railway, the Hotwell
- Hotwells (Page 2) - Samuel Plimsoll, the Floating Harbour
- 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
- 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
- Fedora Linux: Some notes
- Free Stuff
- Scanning halftone images
- Digitising analog audio
- Digitising analog video
- Optimize Windows 10
- Windows 10 startup program problem
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Web Stuff - Some notes about setting up a home web server. Notes about HTML, CSS and JavasScript problems I found interesting.
- Website Basics - Editors, Design, Technology, Compatibility, Organization, Naming, Conventions & Defaults, Hosts, FTP & Uploading, Backups, Recovery
- Cable Modem Problem
- Close blocked web page
- Code Tips
- Design
- Fonts
- Forms
- Frames
- Images
- Linkrot - What it is and how to mitigate it
- Links
- MIDI Files - Playing MIDI Files on web pages
- Random
- Redirection - Automatic timed redirection between web pages
- Referer Spam
- Enabling SSL on a Apache on Windows web server
- Parsing the URL
- Qualtrics Date Picker
- Utilities - Useful utilities for checking accessibility, errors and loading speed
- Video
- Responsive Video Embedding
- Webring History - What they are, how they work
- Webrings Links - A list of the currrent webrings I have been able to find
- Webrings Technology - The technology that made webrings work
- Lycos UK specific
- Adverts
- Bandwidth
- Bug Reports
- Disabled Sites
- Downloads
- Downtime
- File Names
- File Storage
- FTP
- Hot Linking
- Password Protected Directories
- Red Measure & Red Sheriff
- Technologies
- Under Construction
- Useful URLs
- JavaScript Speed Tips
- Windows Web Server 2020 - Setting up a home web server in 2020
- Windows Web Server - Setting up a home web server (2003)
- (Page 1) - installation and setup, router
- (Page 2) - IP address, firewall, logs
- (Page 3) - remote control, FTP, dynamic DNS, other sites
- Linux Web Server - Setting up a home web server
- Manipulating large log files
- Securing Apache
- Apache Server Status page
- Updating Apache
- Router settings when running a home web server
- Serial Listings - Manipulating letters
- Toggle Variables Toggle JavaScript Variables
- Web Templates
- Webmaster Spam
- Links - Some of my favourite web sites
- Web Rings - The webrings this site is linked to
This page created May 17, 1999; last modified February 10, 2023