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Bits and pieces
This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!
The cloaked man
In Bristol the other day and we walked past this piece of sculpture that we have driven past a dozen times. It is a man on a horse with an inquisitive expression (the man’s expression, the horse just looked slightly bored and restless) There is a little plaque nearby telling us that he is the […]
MoreI 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!
MoreRegistered fish and chips
This used to be a registry office, as you can see. Now it is a fish and chip shop, as you can also see. I wish it had been open so we could have tried some of their fish and chips, but sadly it wasn’t!
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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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Lois Elsden 