Photos by historybuff: on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

This photo appears to show my Great Uncles house (1st on the left in the photo). He had a large patch of a land at the side of the house (it was the end of the terrace) He had stables on this land as well as a good size smallholding. He was a haulier until he retired, and had large (shire?) horses to pull the dray. My sister and I used to play in the empty stables on our visits. His name was 'Jack' Williams, originally from Trellech, near Monmouth.(His proper forename was Timothy) He was married to Emily, (formerly Weir). His sister lived in the house next door.

I am the grandson of Mrs Dyer and I knew much of this story.

Sorry to be pedant, but Mrs Dyer never had a sister, she had a brother William Taylor and it was probably her sister-in-law Kit/Catherine (not her sister) who looked after my mum, olive.

I can not fill you in on many more details, but Harry Knot stayed good friends with my mum until his death and my grandmother (who died in 1984) .

It was great to come across this article and I will pass it on to my mum.

Best wishes

Chris Jarrett

...the 60s and 70s were happy years for me, and thanks, historybuff, for reliving the good times through your fotos. In particular I recall Keynsham through an advert on Radio Luxemburg about the 'infra-draw method' of doing football pool. Looking back now, it was all part of growing up, wasn't it? I suppose Mr Horace Bachelor is still around doing his football pool...good man !!

The last film I saw was 'Shane' in 1950 at the Scala Cinema. I can't remember exactly where it was located.

You may be able to obtain historic images of Pucklechurch from http://www.nascr.net/~bishop_books/pucklechurch.htm

Check out www.pucklechurch.org for more links to local history

Sadly as I write -13th Feb 09- the building is now totally demolished

The public house in the picture is the Lord Raglan, the Nags Head is further up the hill on the right just out of sight.

Excellent history. I wonder what Barrs Ct. will look like in another 6 or 7 hundred years time. Will historians be pointing out ruins that were once Asda

as a lad i worked on the ferry and i well remember the severn princess,depicted and her well known chepstow skipper percy palmer,very very happy days

I have spent about three hours looking at this site, and I am really impressed with the amount of information. I looked at this site originally because my ancestors going back to 1632 came from the Gloucestershire/Bristol area, My Great Grandfather James Cryer moved to Cardiff in the late 1800's, my Grandfather William (my fathers father) and most of his family were born in Bitton. My wife and I have been living in New Zealand since 1981 and I have been working on my family tree for about two years and is was great to see all the places most of my relatives came from. Great photo's, excellent comments, Keep it up.

regards John