On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 10:11:00 -0000, Colin Salter <colin.salter@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > An article on my blog this week might be of interest - about Frome Lodge > in Stapleton, home in the mid to late 19th century of Captain Charles > Castle JP (1813-1886), and into the early 20th of his widow Ada > Elizabeth nee > Crickland (b. 1837) of Clifton. > http://talltalesfromthetrees.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/charles-castle-1813-1886 > -and-frome-lodge.html Hi Colin, Thank you for this interesting article in your blog. I hope other list members will take a look. An old postcard view of the terraces of Frome Lodge from the south east, c1905 caught my eye straight away. There's a similar view in Bygone Bristol FRENCHAY and STAPLETON on old postcards by Janet and Derek Fisher, Alan Freke and Roger Angerson, though the postcard shown in the book was postally used in 1930. The caption in the book notes that the view is from Wickham Court across the river. In years past, Wickham Court was the home of friends of mine and I have fond memories of visiting them there with my husband. Josephine

Thanks! I tried to reproduce the view from Wickham Court for the article; but the allotments in front of the Court are private and in the way, and anyway the terraces of Frome Lodge are sadly overgrown now and the view lost. But you can still identify one of the tall conifers at the back of the postcard view, across Park Road from the Lodge. I have the Bygone Frenchay & Stapleton book as well as my own unposted copy of the card. It's surprising to see it still in print in 1930, when I read elsewhere that the view dates from 1905 - not exactly a major tourist view, I would have thought. Wickham Court has its own claim to history of course, in the Civil War. Very pretty little set of buildings.