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Hans price was an architect who changed the face of Weston-super-Mare, designing many of the major buildings in the town. I couldn’t find Hans Fowler Price in any census returns before 1861, although I did find his father George, and sister Selina and brother Henry Meredith. Hans appears again in the 1871 census, no longer […]
MoreI saw this sign on the side of a building in Bridgwater, Somerset; apparently it was built in the early 1800s and is Flemish-bond cream brick, with stone coping It has twentieth century additions and maybe the sign should actually read ‘W.H.Smith, Plowman and Trundle – Saddler’ – I think! It is a little confusing because […]
MoreThere is something wonderful about going into English churches… and I guess others in other countries, and in even quite small churches you see the most wonderful stained glass. This is not a really small church, it is the church of St Mary in Bridgewater, but the glass is still quite moving. My picture doesn’t […]
MoreBefore colour photography was as cheap as black and white, before films were made in technicolour, nearly all photographic images and film was two-tone. It was a common question to ask… ‘do you dream in black and white?’ No one would say this any more, would they.
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Lois Elsden 