Bits and pieces

I met Cary Grant!

Cary Grant was born in Bristol in 1904, he left at the age of sixteen with a theatre company, on tour in the USA, and he decided to stay! He became an American citizen in 1942, but he is still a Bristolian, because look, here he is!

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Silk mercer

We always enjoy going to Bridgwater; although I’ve wandered up and down this road, the High Street, before, I’ve never noticed E.H.Hooper;  the shop is in a wonderful and elegant old building, and the sign above it says it is a ‘silk mercer and draper, millinery and mantles’. The building dates from the middle of […]

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